“Challenges are the breakfast of champions.”

Just as if it were yesterday when you had to start off school as a JSS1 student, still remember what your box looked with lots of provisions in it. Am sure the memories of having to serve punishments, cut grasses, and copy voluminous notes still remain unforgettable events. But like the grasses wither away everything is now history. What looked like six long years is all over now. There’s an important lesson to learn here. Just as your secondary school experience has become history, the same way every challenge that looks like a big mountain before you would soon be gone. A wise man once said, “Challenges are the breakfast of champions.”

At the moment it might just look like university admission is not coming your way, perhaps you even have to go on the second missionary journey to the city of WAEC when your mates cleared all their papers. Listen friends a short while from everything from now would become history if only you can stand…

Wait a moment. Do you realize that at the moment no matter how good you are in current affairs or in debate you cannot represent your school in the next bournvita brain match. Sometimes I wish could go back to my Alma Mata to play for the school team. But it doesn’t matter how much I wish the opportunity is gone. Friend just as you had only one opportunity to have a secondary school education likewise you have only one chanced to live. Similarly, just as your secondary education came to pass, one day your stay on earth will become history. But what’s really important is how you spend your time here on earth. Your donation in life is quite more important that the durations perhaps what’s more thought provoking is that just as your stay in your secondary school was fixed likewise your sojourn here is also fixed?
(Culled from: Shortly after Secondary School by Fatogun Olugbenga, Nugget 1, Pg. 1 and it came to pass)