Necessary losses

Do you realise we are in August already? It's incredible how time flies. It seems only like yesterday when the sparks were crackling all over the city to usher in a new year. Time certainly flies faster than a space shuttle!

Which brings me to the question of progress this far. If you haven't done much of what you purposed to do at the beginning of 2016, be encouraged that you can start now and still make giant strides.

Stay moving forward no matter what

In the language of the Bible, day and night as is seed time and harvest time shall never cease as long as the earth remains. Night paints a dark image representing the things that didn't gel, and the frustrations thereafter. Thankfully, the arrival of a new day every morning is a metaphor of new opportunities; a golden chance to start all over. 

The weakness of some is to dwell on the failures forgetting that poetic justice always levels the  ground, restoring to the loser everything that 'locusts' unjustly ate. Moreover every failure is a learning opportunity. Boney Katatumba put it succinctly: "Every irritation is an invitation to grow in wisdom, understanding and wealth." 

Maybe your plan this year was to get married only for the object of your desire; the one you had poured all your love and hopes in, to drive a dagger in your heart and leave it there! Man's ability to start afresh should stir you to cut your losses and move on. Things that don't work out were not meant to be, and it's in letting go that something better will show up. 

Some of the world's most influential people suffered dismal failures and heartrending betrayals. To mention three: Oprah Winfrey was raped aged nine, Bill Gates dropped out of university, Lionel Messi served tea to meet his training expenses, but look how successful these people are today. Sigmund Freud was right afterall: "One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."