What To Do When You Are Doing Nothing...

One of the most frustrating experiences one can have in life is to be alive and not active, i.e to be idle. It's a route that gradually leads to extinction and if care is not taken, you may lose touch of the realities that defines who you are or who you should be.
There are specific periods in the life cycle of a man that characterizes a season of inactivity, though sometimes seasons like this could come as a result of some external influences that can't be altered... For example, as an undergraduate there is nothing u can do  to a situation of an industrial action embarked upon by your school authorities or as a fresh graduate waiting for youth service corps can last for months and many other practical examples that has the same similitude to inactivity.
So what do you do in periods like this? Because in life you must come to terms with the reality of the fact that every passing second counts and you are accountable for every of those passing moments. I ve seen young men and women take charge of this periods to the greatest advantage. I discovered recently that a man can be dead and yet alive. Yes, that is so true and I know men and women who are a living reality of this. I have this strong notion that what to do when you are not doing anything is to to solely invest in the luxurious time you have to discover more about who you are. To identify problems that are particularly unsolved in the part of the divide you are in and train, equip yourself to to nurse and find solutions to those issues.
A man that is dead and yet alive is a man who has not discovered the true reason for his existence. The day you discover why you are truly born that is the day you start living. There are many walking corpse on the street of Lagos today, some are even riding big jeeps but not yet not living. Yours could be different. You can begin an adventure of fulfilment at a very young age, only if you will turn this period of inactivity to period of feeding your soul with the right nutrients needed for excellence. It's when you are loaded that you will be needed.
You see for everything in life, there is a time. I tell you, there is a time to sit and a time to stand. A time to wait and hide and a time to move out and manifest. This might be a period for you to learn. Learn about your emotions learn about finance, learn about leadership, you might need to learn a trade. It's a time to learn.
Why do we have many failures today in Africa? It's because many don't have the spare time to learn. That's why you would see top multinational companies organizing conferences and leadership training programs for there executives. This is good but tell me. What leadership virtue can someone learn and imbibe for may be a week or two??? They organize this programs because many of their employers need sufficient knowledge in handling issues that are key and vital to their growth as a firm. As good as this is, you don't need some sort of a crash program to build yourself. You can do that now.
Finally, every great man has this circle of inactivity, some call it the wilderness experience, where they learn the nittygritty of what their life is all about. This is a period when most great generals etch out their mission statement and inscribe permanently a vision they can run with for the rest of their life.
Don't trivialise this moment... Don't get fat physically alone get weighed also in building up your self, unraveling the mystery behind your existence. And hence very soon God Almighty will sponsor your showing forth. Note this, the school that precedes the faculty of greatness, is the school of learning and making. And it takes a teacher like discipline and patience to take you through. You will get to the topmost top.
God bless you
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