The Life That Isn't Yours 2

Does the struggle ever stop? I sometimes wonder. 

Isn’t it the easiest thing to do; sitting and wondering why it isn’t you; driving that car, up on that stage, wearing those shoes, having that popular blog or producing that hit album? 

Yeah, it’s quite easy isn’t it? Then everyone around you keeps telling you, that your time is yet to come but you’re itching so bad, craving desperately for a time of which you have never had a taste. Everyone has been at this point at some time or the other. Before going further, my sincerest apologies for not making this post last week. Between my laptop charger going bad and my phone screen not allowing me to edit properly, I was unable to meet up. Now, Time; “the indefinite continued process of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole” – Oxford dictionary Timing – “a particular point or period of time when something happens” - Oxford dictionary You see, we often confuse the time we spend awaiting certain successes as the timing for them. Asking questions like “haven’t I done enough?”, “am I not ready?”. We go on and on complaining about how we have been struggling for so long to reach a certain place. We must realize that preparedness does not always mean the time is right. Sometimes people aren’t even prepared and their time comes. We need to understand that even when we have found purpose and are running with a vison, timing must not be ignored. If a wall clock, indicates 11am at 7am, the time will remain wrong for four hours until that “…particular point or period in time when…” it is 11am and then the time will be correct. You cannot be in the right place at the wrong time, because for the fact that you’re not there at the right time makes every other thing wrong. Whatever it is you are up to, whatever endeavor you venture into, once the timing is wrong you are wrong. “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” - Ecclesiastes 3:3 How then do we identify our time? A Yoruba proverb says, in English “the ignorance of a man’s season (timing) causes him to worry”. We are not to worry ourselves with the timing of our success in life or certain achievements. All we are to do is wait and prepare ourselves for it. As long as our individual purposes have been found and we are running with a vision, time will come and it will be clear as day to each person who is in time with the purpose of his existence.