What Will Be Should Be Made To Be

"What will be will be."

This quote has been used too often and a lot of people are now capitalising on it to be docile and inactive. They would wait for things to work out on their own, and they would wait for long in vain. The truth is that something may not happen until it is made and empowered to happen. In the same way, something may continue to happen in the way you may not like it until you do something to make it stop. This is why I believe that you are the one to determine how your life will play out through your actions. If you want something to work for you, you do not have to sit and wish for it to work, rather you will put in work to make it work.

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While I was growing up, there was this friend of mine that had always wished to become a professional footballer. He was so immersed in the thoughts of being a footballer that he was nicknamed "Pele." In fact, anything that involves football catches his fancy. From street football, to playing containers, etc. Everyone had concluded that he would become a very great footballer, but he never took any step. He just wished and wished without making adequate plans for it. There was a football academy in the neighbourhood but he did not want to attend because he felt it was not up to par with his standards. He was waiting for when the national football academy will call him, but it never happened.

What he forgot was that, even if you have a big dream, there may be a need for you to start small and from your level. But he was waiting for when he would start big, which never happened. After we left the neighbourhood, I did not hear anything again from him until a few months back when I ran into him. Surprisingly, he was selling groceries in a road-side. I called on him and asked "Pele, what happened?" He looked at me and hissed, and said that there was no one to help him. It was sad that he waited all his life for someone to help him and he overlooked the help that he would have rendered to himself. To wait and wish for something worthwhile to happen for you without taking any action is to hope in futility.

You will be surprised that the world does not care about your wishes, neither does it give regards to how you feel. You do not get something simply because you think you deserve it but because you have demanded for it through actions and work. You may not even have the required resources available for you to take the actions, but it does not mean you should not get started with what you have. When you have taken a step, then you are already positioned towards achieving your goal. No one makes motions or advances by sitting one place docile. If you must advance, then you have to take steps. It is worthy to note that success will not drop on your laps by doing nothing but by taking the appropriate steps.

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It is true that you should have goals, aspirations, and what you want to achieve. But another truth is that you should put actions towards its actualisation. So the latter truth is what gives credence to the former, and both of the truths should coexist. Imagine someone that wants to build a house and then tells an architect to design it on paper and then it stops there, will the house build itself? After the design, the civil engineer and other building contractors will have to put action to what the architect had previously drawn in order for the house to be built. In the same way, in life, something will have to power your goals in order for them to be actualized. Your dreams will remain just as dreams until they are powered by actions.

You have to also understand that any action that you want to put in has a time frame which they will remain valid. That is, your dreams, aspirations, and ideas will not wait for you forever to act on them. There is a time that you will waste and they will either lose potency or someone else would have already taken the same actions and you will be left behind. Always remind yourself that the best time to perform an action towards an idea or take steps towards a dream is the present moment.

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