“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it” Bruce Lee. A lot of people fail to distinguish between who people say they are and who they really are. Most times people turn to consider or regard what people say or think about them, than really looking in to themselves to see who they really are. Now, look at this; most times, students find themselves battling with some of their courses of study because they are really never ready to offer the course but because friends or parents or some important people around them thought they will be good for it they go into to it and discover that they really don’t belong there. Is it really their faults? Who do people say that I am? Is that really who I am or have to be? Is what they say I can do really what I need to do? What can I really do? Now the thing is not really what your parents, friends, or people around you recommend for you, and not because your friends applied for medicine or law or pharmacy, so you too should apply for same course, Sir, ask yourself what am I meant for? A lot of people and countries are battling with this very question. This question has made a lot of people to abuse the purpose of their existence in the world. This question has made a lot of people make mistakes in life; this very question has caused a lot of people and countries to create unnecessary enmity with others. But the truth still remains that you must discover who you are; if not, the reason God created you will be unrealized. That is why you see that the moment you get into the four walls of the university, what you face is really not what you thought it is and most times it is considered ‘late’. Each semester you are awarded with not less than three carry over, from there the institution places you on probation, and later set you withdrawn from the institution. And that is when you see yourself shifting blames to people that never had anything to do with their withdrawal from school.

“Pursue your dreams only if you let Self-discipline be its partner”. If you live your life daily on assumptions then, be prepared for you will experience disappointment almost every day. Assumption breeds failure and a life build on assumption is not worthy of emulation. What kind of life do you wish to build? If you hate it so much, then you must learn to avoid it no matter how hard. If you discover that you are beginning to assume almost everything about your life beware, for failure knocks at your door. Assumption is a terrible thing, it is the grandfather of laziness and laziness itself is a great enemy to success. Never assume that something will happen without putting in effort or that something happened out of chance. For nothing in life happen without being triggered by something or somebody. Live is a mystery that teaches us new things about itself every day. You want to send someone somewhere and instead of telling the messenger about the person you are sending him or her to, you just assume he or she should know the person you are sending him or her to by default, this brings us to this story. A young man once told me of an incident that happened to him at home, how his mother sent him with some money to a woman somewhere and did not adequately describe the woman she wanted him to give the money to, so the boy took the money to a wrong woman and because of how dishonest and deceitful the woman was, she collected the money and kept quiet about it. A week later, the woman he was supposed to give the money to, met his mother and asked her “you said you were going to come with the money or send your son with it to me? I didn’t see you neither did I see your son. So she came back and started scolding the young boy, but the fault wasn’t really that of the young man, it was the fault of his mother because she could not direct the boy appropriately when giving the describing of the woman she wanted him to give the money to. Her assumptions cost her, the lenders trust. Assumptions have cost so many people their fortune in life. When you make any assumption, you are preparing room for error (Toba Beta). I visited a friend somewhere and an incident similar to the incident above happened; he borrowed some stuffs from a trader somewhere and when it was time to pay, he gave his younger brother the money to go and pay the man (trader). And when the guy’s (younger brother) asked to find out from his older brother which of the trader he was asking him to go and pay the money to because he didn’t know, the older brother started yelling at the young man and was making him (younger brother) look like a lunatic.