IN MY SHOES

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Your current situation has a very intelligent way of influencing you.

If you’re in a very critical condition, prolly sick or hoping for something, the people and the surrounding you keep finding yourself can either make you get better or worse!

Okay lemme explain...
I had a very terrible experience years ago when I suffered from swollen legs, dunno what happened, my legs were swelling,  took drugs and stuff but seemed futile. Anytime I went out, the class of people I saw were people whose legs were amputated, crawling, or crippled and this sent a negative message to my mind. I was like ‘O God, so this is how I’m gonna loose my legs” ?I said to myself ‘I AM FINISHED’! No Hope!t

This feeling almost crippled my mind cos it kept recurring, even in the market, I saw them everywhere. Twas like the devil’s tactics to paralyze my mindset negatively.

But I devised a technic to overcome them such that whenever those thoughts came, or whenever I saw people with critical situations, I begin to speak positively to myself, I make positive affirmations sometimes aloud without minding who’s listening... That was when I became an overcomer. With prayers and with faith I regained my feet and I became sound again

Check this out:
If you’re jobless and you’re praying and hoping that you’ll get a job soon, the people you’ll keep meeting will be people that are well to do, have great jobs, drive nice cars, or even yahoo boys.
When you go to parties, mall or church, the people that’ll sit around you are guys or ladies your age who are big shots... And you’ll begin to think about your life, Hey God! when will I arrive?

If you’re childless, you’ll only be seeing mothers with children, you go to the mall u see cute cute kids running around you...And you begin to think, when will I have my own?

Looking for a life partner? You’ll be seeing only young young couples in church, in the market you’ll see a girl your age with two rings shining on her finger, on Facebook you’ll be surrounded by engagement rings popping on every finger and pre-wedding photos everywhere... And you begin to ask where is my missing rib?

If you’re having a tough time in your marriage or your husband is giving you headache,  you’ll only be seeing lovely couples like  Firsts Baba Isa with his beautiful wife showering love on Facebook... And you’ll begin to feel like why is my case different?

If you’re still struggling to make your jamb and you’re battling with jambing Jamb, nasoso invitation for matriculation you go dey get. On Facebook your timeline will be flooded with pictures from matric, complains about ASSU, and university students snapping pictures upandan in class. And you keep wishing... “I wish I was one of those complaining about the strike

Now, these things you’re seeing are positive things o, but they end up getting you depressed, deteriorating your mood, aggravating your headache and sending you into soliloquy...

Instead of motivating you, they tend to remind you of your problems and how unprogressive you are in life’s journey.

Which is why people commit suicide, visit the ‘babalawo’, resort to cheating on their spouse, join bad gang, find solace in ‘Yahooism’, or marry wrong.

Amma say to you today that the fact that you’re where you’re at the moment only shows that you were somewhere yesterday, you are going somewhere whether you’re seeing the destination or not.

He didn’t bring you this far to leave you here. Like China, recycle your shit and turn it to energy, yes convert that negative energy into a force that’ll catapult you to your destination. Shove off NEGATIVITY, eschew paranoia.

Say to yourself ‘MY TIME DEY COME’, and trust me it is pretty soon. You nor go wait for long! It is worth the WAIT!

YOUR OWN NA BLAST!

From a heart that cares.
CHEERS!

#ItzPr0gr3X

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