Why Say Why

WHY SAY WHY?

So you want to give up? Why? A thousand and one reasons you have already cooked up ready, I believe to justify your decision to give up on life, your dreams, hopes, aspirations e.t.c. hahahaha, let me ask you a simple question, let’s go back in time say 10 years back in time. Did your futuristic ambition include you giving up at this moment or time in your life? If yes, ok if no, then why give up now?.

My friends are well ahead of me, my parents are disappointed in me, I did not graduate well, I may not graduate well, my siblings have all achieved more than I have, my teachers don’t believe in me, I am an outcast, I can’t ever get something right, whatever I do has negativity attached on it. Enough of your ranting let me give you some instances and if your situation is worse off than theirs then you are allowed to give up on yourself.

Do you love light, I mean electricity, damn bet you can live without it, phones, clothes, almost everything depends on it. Is there an amount of joy you feel when the electricity comes up? When that bright yellow/white bulb comes alive illuminating your surroundings, I can relate to that feeling, but have you ever asked how that bulb came to be? The person who thought it up?, the road to its creation? Well let me educate you. Thomas Edison normally called addled (Google that) by his teacher, discovered it yes maybe not the common type but the very prototype to which all others emanated from. He said this when asked about his journey of making the light bulb: “I did not fail a 1000 times, the light bulb was an invention with a thousand steps”

Let’s take a look at these people:

Charles Darwin gave up a medical career and was told by his father, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching." In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, "I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." Well I guess he never gave up now did he?

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7. His parents thought he was "sub-normal," and one of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. He did eventually learn to speak and read. Well I don’t know if you know him? Or do you?

Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 students in chemistry. In 1872, Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, wrote that "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." Well tell that to all the canning industries.

Fred Smith, the founder of Federal Express, received a "C" on his college paper detailing his idea for a reliable overnight delivery service. His professor at Yale told him, "Well, Fred, the concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a "C" grade, your ideas also have to be feasible. Well guess that prof needed some education.

 Decca Records turned down a recording contract with the Beatles with the unprophetic evaluation, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." After Decca rejected the Beatles, Columbia records followed suit. The Beatles became a universal sensation.

Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him "hopeless as a composer." And, of course, you know that he wrote five of his greatest symphonies while completely deaf don’t tell me you never knew.

Alicia keys submitted her demo to a producer on the eight floor of a building only to find it on the road shattered to pieces because the producer threw it all the way down from his window. Aha wish the producer knew

It pretty late and I have a headache I would have loved to give you an endless list of people to read about, but by the time you did that guess that beautiful idea in your head may have been thought up by someone and still I don’t want to bore you.

So let me ask again why were you saying why? Oh thought you wanted to quit? You wanted to give up right? Haha. You are greater than you think you are, you are brilliant you are great, you are just scared that your vision is just too big for you, friends will tell you, “hey dude that vision of yours is crazy you can’t possibly achieve that” but what do they know? Small minds think alike get affiliated with great minds and watch your perspective grow, after all pizza hut was made by two brothers who knew nothing about making pizza yet, look at it now.

Coca cola the world’s number one brand was discovered accidentally by a pharmacist, creator of whatsapp was refused a job by Facebook and twitter right? Oh yall didn’t know? Ah! Yes google it.

So I want you to get off that lazy ass, dust off your pants and get to work I will be waiting for your amazing discovery. And never say why me again.

From The Fountain pen