The Life You Are Living May Be Someone Else's Survival Dream

@The Life You Are Living May Be Someone Else's Survival Dream 

There is a strange tragedy in human existence: we often stop appreciating a blessing the moment we become accustomed to it. The roof that once felt like answered prayer eventually becomes “just a house.” The job that once rescued us from anxiety becomes “just a job.” The parents we once prayed to have around become the people whose calls we now avoid. The healthy body we once took for granted becomes invisible until illness teaches us its value. We become so familiar with our blessings that they lose their names in our consciousness. What was once a miracle becomes ordinary simply because it stayed.

Look carefully at your life today. The salary you call inadequate may be another person's desperate prayer for employment. The little room you are ashamed to show people may be another person's dream of having somewhere safe to return to. The school whose poor facilities frustrate you may be another child's unimaginable privilege. The meal you ate without gratitude may be the meal another family went to bed hoping to find. The parent whose imperfections embarrass you may be someone else's unanswered prayer. The opportunity you are postponing may be the very doorway someone else is begging the world to open. Human beings are sometimes guilty of mourning what they lack while standing knee-deep in what others would give anything to possess.

This does not mean we should romanticise poverty, accept injustice or stop demanding a better life. No. We must dream. We must build. We must improve. We must challenge whatever keeps human beings beneath their possibilities. Yet there is a difference between ambition and ingratitude. There is a difference between wanting more and despising what we already have. You can desire a mansion without calling your current shelter worthless. You can pursue a better career without declaring today's honest work meaningless. You can pray for tomorrow's abundance without insulting yesterday's provision. Gratitude does not chain ambition; it purifies it.

One day, perhaps, we will understand the cruelty of taking ordinary blessings for granted. We will look back and realise that some of the things we desperately wanted to escape were actually seasons we should have cherished. The noisy home. The demanding parent. The modest income. The little classroom. The friends who kept showing up. The body that carried us without complaint. The ordinary mornings we thought would always return. Life has a painful way of revealing the value of things only after they have become memories. So before you curse the life you have because it is not yet the life you want, pause. Look again. Count what remains. Hold your loved ones a little closer. Honour the opportunity in your hands. And pursue more, yes—but pursue it with gratitude.

For somewhere tonight, another human being is praying for the life you woke up this morning complaining about. And perhaps the most painful question life could ask you is not, “Why don't you have more?” but, “What did you do with what you already had?”

Yours in fulfilment,

@Otunba Dr Femi Abiola, MCE

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@Project Youth Fulfil

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