TURNING POINTS OF LIFE
I was pondering over which message to give my readers this month but nothing was coming to mind. So I decided to let this month go by hoping to peradventure get a message for my readers next month but something unexpectedly happened to me. I was charging the battery of my phone with a universal charger when it suddenly exploded. The battery got destroyed with the universal charger so my phone is useless now. But few hours before the incident my phone was functioning correctly. This is an example of turning point. Now what do I mean by turning point of Life?
Life is like a game of soccer. When the team you support is leading, things seem to be going on well for you and you don’t expect the team you support to lose the game. But when there is sudden turnaround of event and the opposing team equalises and takes the lead and the game ends. There is also a corresponding turnaround of physical and emotional state of being. This brings sadness to the one whose team took the lead first and happiness to the one who support the opposing team. So it is in life. Sometimes things seem to be going on well with you in life and you don’t expect any misfortune to come your way. But things suddenly go wrong resulting in a turnaround in your physical and emotional state of being. You become sad and perplexed, not knowing what to do.
As a motivator and counsellor, I will urge you to put what happened behind you and think of what is ahead of you. What do I mean? Let say you wrote an exam made of five papers and you failed four and passed one or a beloved one passed away or you lost a precious item or lost a position and so on. If you cry the whole day it will not make things right. If you sleep the whole day it will not make things right. If you drink alcohol the whole day it will still not make things right and so on. So the best thing is to put it behind you and move on because when you remain there you sit on your success. I know it is not easy and it is so painful but you still have to try and put it behind you. Sometimes you try and it doesn’t work but you have to keep on trying and with time you will be able to put it behind you. Always learn from the past and put it behind you. Thinking of what is ahead of you comes into play when you go back to the drawing board and start all over again. As you starting, you pray to your creator to see you through and strengthen you as you make the move.
Sometimes, it is the other way round that is things seem not to be going on well for you and there is sudden turn around and things start going on well for you. A sudden strong feeling of joy occupies your physical and emotional states of being.
At that climax, as a motivator and counsellor I will urge you to give thanks to your creator.
Finally these turning points in life make us matured and experienced in life so is not all about sadness. Also never feel you are the only one going through this turning point of life because we are all going through it.
A coffin maker prays to his or her creator for his or her coffin to be bought but that can only happen when someone dies. A drug seller prays to his or her creator for his or her drug to be bought but that can only happen when someone falls sick.
In a nut shell, turning points of life are inevitable but remember your creator is always with you and will always see you true, so don’t give up on life because of these turning points, because if you are not dead you don’t know what you will get!!!!!!!
