THE PURPOSE OF LIFE; Why You Are Who You Are.

Are You Here By Accident Or For A Purpose?

Of all the creatures in the world your creator chooses to create you a human not by your choice or power but because he has a purpose for your life.

Every living man is a message bearer of his/her creator to the world but he/she alone must decide whether to deliver the message or die with it.
There is nothing like a man without a purpose but a man who is ignorant of his purpose in life.

To fully comprehend the wisdom behind the above paragraph, THINK!
Of the more than 500,000 spermatozoa released in a single ejaculation by your father into your mother by, How come it was the spermatozoa carrying you that out ran others to fertilize your mothers ovum?

How come you were born a girl and not a boy or a boy and not a girl? Believe me; it goes beyond the X and Y chromosomes they taught you in biology.      
                                   
You may want to say my father has already gotten two or three boys or girls before me. So, the probability that I will be a boy or a girl was high.

That still does not answer the question; ask yourself again How come you also ended up being a girl when your parents anticipated a boy vise versa?

How come you grow amidst childhood diseases and still survive to become an able bodied man or lady while some other people had been rendered disabled by those diseases?

If you are a Handicap, How come among your family members you are physically challenged?

As a physically challenged person: For instance if you are a cripple, Have you ever wondered why your mobility and not your sight or hearing was taken from you?

Have you ever wondered why you can do something better than other things?

Doesnt it amaze you why some people prefer to confide in you than other people?

How come you took ill and recovered while some other people did not?

Have you thought for a second while you woke up this morning alive while some other people had passed on?

10. Finally, how come you are reading this book now out of the thousands of books in the market?
 What do you think is/are the answer(s) to these questions?
      Is it because you are religious?
      Is it because you are smart?
      Is it because of your sins?

None of these answers and many more answers are correct.  If you meditate deeply you will discover that the only answer to all these questions is PURPOSE.

What you are and in whatever circumstances you find your self, there is a purpose for it.

Whatever you are given as an advantage is meant for the fulfillment of your purpose in life. And whatever you lack naturally is not a hindrance to the fulfillment of your purpose in life.

In fact, those things you lack naturally are what may stand between you and the realization of your purpose in life.
 if you are born short in height it means your success in life does not depend on how tall you. If you are a female it means your purpose in life can only be fulfilled by being a female. In fact, being a male may doom you.

 And if you are a cripple it means your success in life does not depend on your ability to walk.
So, stop crying over spilt milk on those things you lack because you cannot know how best your purpose can be fulfilled than the ONE who gave you the purpose.  

Lucky was a friend of mine who had a backslap in a motor accident and since then he had been unable to sit or stand up right, he can only lie flat on his chest or back.  But despite his disability lucky is the C.E.O of Sophluck enterprises a company that specializes in film editing and conversion of VHS to VCD.
A company he established and nurtured to profitability while on his bed. One day, we were discussing our achievement and wondering what would have happened to us if we were not physically changed.
I said I dont know what would have happened to me but I know I wouldnt have achieved what I have achieved today because of the nature of my friends then. Just then lucky said I know what would have happened to me, I would have died because I am temperamental and always at loggerhead with the Niger delta boys when I was in Port Harcourt.
At that point I realized my creator took away my mobility to prevent my sheep from wondering with the dog out of the fence of the shepherd and ending up in the tummy of a wolf

THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE; The story of a man that conquers death

The Reason Why Some People Succeed Where Others Had failed.
Ishola Ayodele

In 1870, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island.

However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this
was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before.

Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done.

He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could
be built.

Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.

The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling.

Washington was also injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to talk or walk.

“We told them so.” “Crazy men and their crazy dreams.” “It’s foolish to chase wild visions.”

Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built.

In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever. He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task.

As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment. It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up.

Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.

He touched his wife’s arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.

For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife’s arm, until the bridge was finally completed.

Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man’s indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances.

It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do.

This is one of the best examples of a
never-say-die attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.

Always know that as you embark on your purpose in life you will face constraints. The law of constraints states that, "between you and a noteworthy achievement there will be constraints".

You should also know that due to these constraints you will fail not once not twice not even a dozen times. But what you must never do is QUIT.

You must keep trying after every failure. Just as Michael Jordan had said, "I can accept failure but I can not  accept not trying".

Tom Hopkins once said, "The World does not judge a man by the number of times he fails but by the number of times he succeeds, but the number of times he succeeds is directly proportional to the number of times he fails".

This is why the world celebrated Thomas Edison today for inventing the light bulb forgetting that he failed almost 10,000 yes 10,000 times before he could produce the first light bulb.

In the fight between the stream and the rock the stream always win not due to strength or toughness but due to PERSISTENCE.

Persistence is what distinguishes between those who make things happen from those those who watch thing happen.

Martin Luther King Jr said, "if you can't fly, run, if you can't run, walk, if you can't walk, crawl, if you can't crawl just keep moving till you reach your goal".

And Abraham Lincoln said, "You must never give up until you make your last attempt and you must never make your last attempt until you succeed".

I want you to know that, "There is no circumstances greater than your determination to succeed".

*"The greatest tragedy of life is not that we die but that a man can live without fulfilling his/her purpose in life"*

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Ishola Ayodele is a Public Relations practitioner and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations.
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