QIDAKINGIN'S BLOG

After school, what next? After the 4, 5 or 7 years of Tertiary Education, what next? After being the Departmental, Faculty or University top student for several years, what comes next? - Reality is the next thing that happens. Reality of how the world works is what comes next. The realisation that there is a wider world out there that works differently is what happens after several years of incubation in the University. How prepared are you for that reality? What measures have you taken to get ready for the outside and real world? Do you think you've gotten all the necessary ingredients needed to cope in the outside world? Is your skill set good enough to earn you lucrative opportunities and deals in the labour market? Can your creativity be channelled towards achieving your goals and objectives? Are you ready to sacrifice certain things in your life in order to move forward in life? Are you ready to compromise when you have to? The questions are for you to answ...

Being grateful? Are we really grateful for everything in our lives? Are we more complaining than being appreciative of who we are and what conditions we are in be it living or otherwise? Is there an end to how grateful we should be? These are the questions I do ask myself at times. I don't want to sound like a *know-it-all* kind of person but I guess most of us aren't thankful enough for who we are, what we are and what we've been. How many times do we thank God every day for having complete set of limbs and legs? Do we ever thank God for the way our body is being structured? Is our self-love channelled to being appreciative of our we are? Every other day, we meet people with physical disabilities, we relate with them (some of us though), some of us see them as humans some people don't, some of us have sympathy, some empathy and some others, none of the above. But is all of these channelled to being thankful to God for how He made us even when any of us could ...