IMPORTUNATE ACTIONS

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 *Importunate* *Actions*

Sometimes Life just presents us with stagnations. It seems as if one is just at a point, no going forward and no moving backward. In short,frustration and confusion are the offsprings in such cases,
relenting ,folding of hands and not pushing further do not help either.In such cases,we just want to stay in our comfort zone and leave all to fate as we watch events unfold either for good or bad and we then apportion blames on fate. Honestly,those moments are best to take actions,I mean real actions.

Most times,it is very good to have around us. People and circumstances that will frustrate us out of our comfort zone to get us to our destinations. They are seen as oppressors but actually they are catalysts for our breakthroughs.
In the process of the perceived frustration,there are those who are always there for us,always consoling us to make us feel good and not despair but really these people will only do us more harm. They make us redundant,help us mope and hinder us  on achieving our life goals. When and if we stay around these people or  they  stay around us  for too long,they kill us and blindfold us from realities.

The story of this young woman below brings this to the fore. In her own case,it was in a particular situation she had no power over but I am actually addressing all situations not any
one in particular.

She was married to a confirmed polygamist.A loving,supportive woman and submissive to her husband,she had no child of her own. The woman in the other room though very harsh and weird,had male and female children. Initially,she felt good about everything and felt things will just fall in place as usual but not as she thought.
She began to feel the heat when the woman in the other room could not just give her a breathing space. She could not send her children on errands,she dares not look at them in the eye for too long neither could she put them through any correction even when they went wrong in family matters.During family festivities and thanksgiving services in their assembly,her husband gives her so much to compensate for her lack and showed her so much love but the other  woman was given all she needed according to each of her children. This man really loved this woman,always consoled her saying ;but you know I love you dear and am I not more than ten sons to you?.

Really,he loved her but even if he was actually more than ten sons to her,she could not have been able to send him on errands like,son,go to the water pot and get me some water or son,go to the stream and fill these Jerry can etc.


They had gone for their usual annual assembly gathering when the frustrations from the other woman really got to her,so she had to take her fate in her hands for a positive change. Her polygamist husband,who was more than ten sons to her could not join her in those exercises that will help her eventually reach her goal.She got herself really engaged and personally challenged that fate after much frustrations from her oppressor who was a catalyst for her success. Eventually, she had a testimony. Her testimony  was to be an Icon whom the world and million of generations reckoned with.

Also in contemporary history is Thomas Edison,the founder of Telegraph,motion Camera,the light bulb and several other inventions.He was self educated at home having attended school for just twelve weeks. He was termed a difficult child by his teacher as he also had hearing impediment. His mother took him home for home schooling.
In 1868,when the family turned Topsy-Turvy, he took the control of his future into his hands and thereafter had his several inventions.
The catalyst was his teacher,thereafter his mother's mental illness.

Moping up in situations and leaving all to fate is not reality at all,it kills faster than death itself.












SHALOM.

*Afolasade Odumuyiwa*
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