HE WHO WEARS THE SHOES...


There's this thing my coach does that doesn't seize to amaze me. It's how on his DM he's giving me a hard time, suffocating me with tasks and assignments up and down, yet, in the public group chat that contains all the writers he's training, you'd see him praising me. 

On the outside I seem like his favorite but, the war we wedge in secret ehn, you wouldn't believe. Omor, this taught me that envying what meets the eye is truly deceptive. A large percentage of all we see is an illusion of what truly is. 

I remember being jealous when My Coach would praise a particular mentee, I would usually feel he loves them more until I entered their shoes, and I saw for myself. Little wonder, Apostle Paul encouraged us to, "Test all spirit". 

Let's learn to not base our judgement on two things; 1. An assumption, 2. What meets the eyes, or else we'd be lost. Therefore when I look at the things I want, I tend to look at them from the point of view of what it requires me to do in the secret when no one is watching. 

For example, I want a beautiful score of 360 in my UTME, rather than think of how glamourous it'd seem when I've attained it, I tend to look at how much of my sleep, personal time and resource it will demand. 

Dearest reader, if someone else is getting the rewards you desire, look closely, perhaps in the secret the person is doing something you're not doing. Don't base your love on the physical appearance of things but rather on the process it would take to attain.

 As the saying goes, "He who wears the shoe knows where it pierces him". 


@favvy_Okwansđź–¤.

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