How the mind of an optimist works

I remember when I was 12 years and mummy would sweetly tell me to read and work hard so as to become a great person in life. The same time I would find myself in school for the first week, reading out loud, sinking my brains into books like nobody else’s business. Immediately I completed my form four exams, daddy would then say, "Welcome to the world son" and I would feel reality hit directly on my face. That time was gone and never to be seen again.

Unlike how I used to think, I would not want any of my brothers or sisters to live the same way. Life can be cruel yes, but that does not say why we should not live or aim to struggle for the best. In the same way, why shouldn't truth be told to the young generation who think that doing things at their interest rate is behooving? I am here to address a human being equally the same as me, that person who can think wide and deep that this life is not his or hers.

When I was still a 'fresher' in campus, one of my favorite lecturers then said: It is not always about you but someone else. If I was to reflect on the cost parents are undergoing to maintain their children in schools, or help them think big, it is enough for them to go for a ten-year vacation overseas and start multibillion business projects in their villages. It is only their true love that deters them from doing the feasible so as to invest that in their sons and daughters' brains.

Well, for my brother and sister in high school, this campus is not attained by lugging in the darkness thinking that you can buy your way to success, it is not appropriate if you indulge in horrific thoughts of waste and languish. This is a vital place where your mama believes in the vigor of the positive vices she has derived to you, the center your daddy wants to see shine and recognized under your name. Doesn't anyone want such a life or fulfil their illusions of success?

The next time you open a bank account, it will all be smiles to the ATM, no one asks you what you've gone to do as it’s obvious. But to tell you this for free, it is now or never that you open that account. It is worth admitting that there is no 'I will do it when time comes' as the time is now, that’s how the mind of an optimist works. You only need to have the crucial resources and elements to color your account.

And for my friends in campus, how do you feel seeing your siblings mess around when you are struggling to better their lives? Oh, come on; don't tell me it’s not your duty. Chances are, you are the immediate pair of aid and you can help transform them from their current good, to better. Help restore the traditional spirit of hard work, discipline and honesty. Tell them how jogging around can easily break their legs. 

Mummy and daddy now love seeing me drive my thinking from the impossible to possible. I no longer receive the work-hard, phrases but "walk-hard, you need to keep fit". You only celebrate your success at a tender age to walk-hard if you work-hard in academic orientations.

Now, before you set the first pace of the last term of the year, think. That's how to evaluate your freedom. Now do it again and stop thinking of how to burn your dormitories this time round.