Life Will Not Always Go As You Want/Plan It

Samuel A. Akorede
2 min readMay 30, 2021

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You must have been asking yourself why is this happening to me? Why can't my life just move on smoothly without encountering this terrain? Why do I face so much disappointment?
There is no straight answer to these questions, but there is a "why" for your complaints.

The complaints are rooted in your expectations: how you want life to view things favorably to your perspective. Many people put so much hope on things they are not so sure of. But they do that anyway.
They want to leave University at Twenty because they believe in what society demands of them. They want to get married, give birth to kids, and raise them before Forty.
It's like a societal paradigm they've confined their expectations into.
But when these things don't happen the same way they've programmed it, they despair.
People start complaining about many things because I find out they cannot fix them. Of course, you cannot.

There is little or nothing, you can do to manipulate life's happenstance and its vicissitudes.
You are running a different race with challenges designed peculiarly for you. Your friends, family members, and parents own may be very different from yours.

You may end up finishing in University at Twenty-three or above. That doesn't mean you're not moving or processing.
It's just a sign to tell you that life is unpredictable: there is no standard set to judge an ideal life. You only have to embrace whatever comes your way.

So, instead of you getting mad at yourself, despairing, or judging yourself becoming things that don't work out the way you've programmed it, encrypt your mind with this mantra: that will never work out the way you've planned it.

If it does work out, celebrate your accuracy, but if it doesn't, don't you hate yourself for what you are incapable of manipulating.

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Samuel A. Akorede

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