Me
There ‘s not much about me, but I guess I ‘ve got to start from somewhere. My name is Akinyemi Olowokere, I was discovered in the early 19th century, but was born during the Chinese year of the chicken when my mates were born, July 21 19$$, to be precise.
My native country is Nigeria, the big paradise in the west coast of Africa, and most populous black nation in the world. My hometown is Efon Alaaye in Efon Local government area of Ekiti State. A town that will soon meet up with the modern day civilization, even if the whole world stands still for the next 200 years.
I had my primary school at Efon -Alaaye and my Secondary school education in Ibadan, Oyo -State before moving to Osun state Polytechnic. And they were the best period of my life. Most especially my secondary school and Diploma days, which I ‘ll live to cherish all through my days on earth. I love fun… I can give it, and I’m always there when it calls…
I want to attain a great height, and I believe I am getting there. During my primary education I was the senior prefect of my school, during my secondary education I was the senior prefect of my school in Ibadan (Holy Trinity Grammar School) in Osun State Polytechnic, I was an aspirant for the post of Student Union Government Vice President, I was the National Vice President of The Federation of Efon Alaaye Students’ Union. A powerful member of the Rotaract Club, a member of the Committee for the Defence of Human Right (CDHR), a member of African Family, an organization that promote African culture among youths, member Efon Alaaye Club (youth wing), also a member of Efon Youth League, a student member Nigeria Institute of Science and Technology…
“Dreams are like babies, with proper care, attention and good nurturing, they will grow to be great”
In life, the only thing that guides us through is our dreams. And we live our destiny to shape it for us”
I strive very hard to make the best of whatever I do. I ‘ve always believe in anything worth doing is worth doing well. In life I love challenges, anything that comes easy has never appealed to me. I enjoy the fruit of my labour. I love meeting interesting people, especially those I can learn from. I love having friends, I have made a lot and many have I lost contact with and many more shall I make, I love to have fun and where ever there is fun, tell me and I ‘ll be there. I try to give fun in abundant and I laugh a lot. I cry, not when am hurt but when there is nothing to do .Do you know there are two ways to go through this life…”To cry about it or to laugh about it.” But I choose to laugh about it, because there is not much mess to clean up afterwards.
I know that no tyranny of circumstance can permanently imprison a determined man, place stumbling blocks on his path and he make them a stepping stones and on them climb to greatness. “Take away his money and he makes spurs of his poverty to urge him on, cripple him, and he writes the Waveley Novels. Lock him up in a dungeon, and he composes the immortal “Pilgrims ‘s Progress”.
“The man who succeeds has a program”, continued Sidney Bremer, “he fixes his course, and adheres to it, he lays his plans and executes them; he goes straight o his goal. He is not pushed this side and that every time a difficulty is thrust in his way. If he can’t go over it, he goes through it. Nothing within the realm of possible can withstand the man or woman who is intelligently bent on success”, I imbibed the spirit of enterprise which demands “that all who would rise in life should not back from labour… that they spare no effort to master the intricacies of the business or vocation in which they are engaged; that they be alert to discover new ways by which they may reach the desired goal easier than the old; and hat they be prompt to seize opportunities that flaunt themselves on their paths”,
Now life is like a mighty jar, and all of us in it, in our different theatres of operation, are like beans with varying size and weights. In normal circumstances, each of us is where he is because of his size and weight. By means of favourism and nepotism, or of some other deliberate and iniquitous tinkering with the contents of the jar, some beans, which are small in size and weight, may get to the top and stay there for a time, but they will rattle to the bottom sooner or later…’Nobody can fool the jar of life’. After rain comes sunshine; after darkness comes the gloriousdawn. There is no joy without it’s alloy of joy, there is no joy without it’s admixture of sorrow, behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So tear the mask.
I also believe that the touchstone of what is good, be it in thought, or word or action, is LOVE. We are to love our neighbours as ourselves, “that is the law and the prophets”. Anything therefore -any thought or word or action- which falls short of LOVE is evil, and holds within itself the germ of it’s own eventual and inevitable destruction. The inference now becomes irresistible that as long as greed or naked self-interest remains the prime and main motivation of any social system, that system must always of a necessity generate countervailing greed and naked self-interest in everyone whom its operations affect, and in the process of time degenerate and perish.
…I also believe that certain events in my life and the manner in which I have faced them may serve as a source of inspiration and hope to some struggling youth. The usual recipe for success is not wanting in the story of my life; a single-minded definiteness about one’s object in life; an intense concentration of all the energies of one’s body and of all the forces of one’s brain and mind on the attainment of one’s chosen objective; and finally, in the pursuit of one’s aim, perseverance. Those who desire to reach, and keep their places at the top in any calling must be prepared to do so the hard way.
As I do say that Gethsemane may be likened to the moment of fulfillment; but it took Jesus Christ alone to watch, pray and triumph there; as for his disciples, they became utterly dispirited at Gethsemane, and later fled and deserted their master until the resurrection. It should not surprise anyone therefore, if ordinary mortals, before and after Christ, lost heart at the approaches to their lesser Gethsemane.
The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising each time you fall. In this connection I am profusely thankful to God for giving me the strength and grace to rise each time I had fallen and for so lifting me a lot after a fall, that I am now what I am indeed, through all my life, it has pleased God to make me survive and triumph over vicissitudes and travails, be they personal, social or otherwise.
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