Life Is Either A Daring Adventure Or Nothing At All

One thing I like about myself is the fact that I love challenges. It is just the other day when I was sharing my life experiences with my friend. I remember thinking about all the experiences I’ve had and I concluded that almost everything that I have ever done was a challenge to me. The most interesting part is that I went through all that and I managed to perform.

I would like to share a little story about my family background. It happened that I was born in a family setup where there was no graduate among the family members. I used to see my older cousins go to high school and then after that go to ‘Nairobi’ to search for a job. That used to be the cycle for years until it was my turn. I happen to have this strange belief that I can do anything as long another person did it perfectly. Just to take you back a little, I remember when I was in class eight I never knew whether I will pass my final exam and join a good high school, probably a famous school which would give me the courage to learn and perform better after form four. Well, there I was after my primary studies and I went to a nice school with a nice name according to my own definition. Yeah, that's according to my own definition. I had this feeling that I must make a change to our family. I remember the first day I entered into my class I was shocked and almost felt like I won't make it. The reason as to why I was shocked is because almost 3/4 of my classmates had higher scores than me in their KCPE exams. To cut the story short I came to realize that I doesn't matter how you performed in your previous exam, all that matters is how you will take it from there. In form two I was very sure of what I want to do and I worked hard. With the combination of efforts from teachers, parents and my fellow classmates I performed well and I was selected to join campus.

I would like to say that to be in a position to learn that I was indeed gonna make it was not a one-day thing. This was a challenge to me but I had to set my mind that I will get it. I will also mention that I worked hard, I believe that there are geniuses but and if they exist I can also make a genius of myself through hard work. I love meeting with challenges and my friend used to tell me that when I fail I work harder. That's funny huh, but this was not the case with him. I remember he failed three units while at the campus and he was almost giving up. I chose to believe that I can do everything while under the sun. Sometimes, many things we do are as a result of our decisions. We may choose to fail and we may choose not to.

Before the end of last year, my friend hosted a meetup to discuss the purpose of our lives. Some people came to the meetup because they wanted to know the purposes of their lives, others came to make sure that what they thought were their purposes was really true, all people came with different expectations. At the end of the day, I learned one important thing which I would like to share with you. I learned that we all can afford everything we want only that we lack capacity. He put it so clear by giving us an example with his new phone. “When I was planning to buy a new phone, I could have bought an iPhone or even a tablet but I realized that I had no capacity to buy an expensive phone. I had to go back home with a middle-class phone and then build my capacity and come back to buy the iPhone”. My friend said. This is the most important thing I learned about life, that we all can be in the same position if we have the same capacity. I think this helped me back in high school and also in campus studies.

Their different lessons a person can learn from life. One of them is either decide to have a positive mind or just fix their mind to one thing and have the fear of not growing. If at all we settle at one thing and decide that we will not grow in the fear that we might fail then that means we are doing nothing and life will give nothing back to us. This makes me conclude that “life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”.

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