Take Responsibility For Your Life

The world we live in is a very competitive one. Scarce resources. Teeming population. Everyone struggles to survive. This is why it is becoming an herculean task to live your life dependent on others. Those who you consider your benefactors are too busy trying to manoeuvre life’s daily challenges and as such may not remain so for too long. Now is the time to ask yourself salient questions. What are you doing with your life? What machinery are you developing to ensure you survive just as everyone else? Are you going to leave your life to chance, hoping things would eventually work out fine, or would you take active steps to ensure future occurences work in your favour?

Too many young people lately do not think about their futures, make long term goals or consider the long term consequences of their present actions. Instead they indulge in wishful thinking, fantasies, end up in unpleasant eventualities as a result, and seek who to blame.

The reason living beings grow physically is nature’s way of informing us that life is meant to be lived majorly by self effort. Consequently, we develop in strength and in mental capacity in order to face the future. Sadly, some individuals grow physically but remain infantile mentally. They just refuse to be accountable for their lives and actions and yet expect everything to fall in place. This mentality is wrong and is a major pointer that the affected person may have a grim life hereafter.

Much of what we experience today, and the present state of our lives are as a result of the choices we made in the past, or worse still, our refusal to actively make choices. Life shouldnt be viewed as a stormy night at sea where the wind blows the ship just anywhere it chooses. True, unforseen contingencies do occur; but the chances of such eventualities making major changes in your life is influenced by your decisions, responsibilities, and actions in the past. You shouldnt be a victim of circumstance but a product of well thought out and properly executed goals.

Perceive life as a vessel at sea and yourself as the captain, and that ship will sail wheresoever you steer it despite how stormy the weather may be during your voyage. Every human being is well equipped naturally to actively live a happy life if he or she chooses to. As the notable quote says “you were given this life, because you were strong enough to live it”. If eventually you find yourself living an unfulfilled life which you supposedly didnt bargain for, it is sometimes your fault.

The future belongs to those who will take charge and be responsible for their present in order to attain whatever they so desire later. Life isnt as difficult as it appears to be. It becomes unlivable when we fail to obey the rules by which its game is played. If you dont direct it, it would direct itself, and when the latter occurs, the results are hardly desirable. By the time we realize our mistake, it may be too late, and we spend the remainder of our years in regret, wishing we had done things differently.

What do you want out of life? What future do you envisage? Is that future acheiveable? Is anyone living that kind of life currently? If yes, what did they do in their past to attain their present? What can you do now to become that future? Are you currently on that path? Should changes be made? Should you start all over? You have the chance now to correct mistakes and redirect your movement to a desired future. Quit the games. Quit the child like behaviours. Grow up. What we sow now is definitely what we would reap eventually, that the universe may be balanced.

Begin to get serious with those things that would build your future. Acquire academic degrees.  Acquire skills. Read wide. Interact with the right people. Keep social activities and self gratification to a reasonable level. Be serious about your health: eat right, work out, stay away from harmful substances. Learn from the masters. Be responsible. Act quickly as time moves fast, for one day you could awaken and discover that the game is over and you lost. It is possible to have the lives we want, but we must actively create it, and that process has to start now. Take responsiblity.

“You must take personal responsibilty. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”– Jim Rohn.

Roland Asiwe