The lies society told you.

Recently I began to question so many things about life and the way we utilize every minute of our day. It has become a norm to go to school from our early years till we grow into adults. Then the society tells you that only after you’ve done all these will you be truly successful.

Because after going through schools, you get a good job, get married, have kids, keep working hard and then retire…only then…life is good.

Therefore we grow up in this system, we keep chanting this mantra as a way of life until it becomes our reality. Little wonder why you find graduates with no sense of direction after spending so many years in schools and universities. Then we have the problem of unemployment setting in and the young mind is left wondering what to do with life.

You see, we set this standard and it only takes courage to break out of this cycle and this thought process.

When you eventually find those who are willing to break out, we define them by their years of struggle to start up something or laugh at them because they refused to go to school. We think they will amount to no much in life, but I think they are the groundbreakers.

We find in them the inventors, scientists, the creative geniuses and most wealthy.

Eventually they go on in life to do great things. They are the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Jobs. Those who dare to break the norm.

I keeps me wondering why most people fall into this rat race.

I’m writing not to dissuade people from attending schools and universities, I write because I want you to learn to be productive, to be solution oriented and to bring results.

When the mind stops creating, it becomes dead.

In life, it’s either you are a solution to something or a problem to everything.

Let’s look for something worthwhile, a worthy cause because desire is the starting point of all achievements. Build something, create anything, your mind is wider than the university syllabus and your brain has so many cells unused and they die off slowly with time when not put into productive use.

We shouldn’t let the definition of a good life by the society cage our creativity and resourcefulness. You can be more, break out of the norm if what you truly desire to achieve isn’t in the cycle.

Be wise.

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