I WISH TO BE LIKE YOU, BUT I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH BY OLUWABUNMI AREGBESOLA

I WISH TO BE LIKE YOU, BUT I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH BY OLUWABUNMI AREGBESOLA

My friend came visiting and I fell in love with her hairdo. Thank God I was preparing to make my hair the following day. I saw how the hairdo fitted her and I was tempted to also make the same. 

On our way to the salon, we saw a woman who wore almost the same hairdo. When she saw us, she told my friend how difficult the hair would be to loose. I was discouraged but I was determined to make the hair. Lol! 

Getting to the salon, chai! My eyes were sore red in the process of making the hair. You understand what I mean now? 

It was then my friend started narrating her experiences as touching the hair. She was like, she took paracetamol when she first made it. She even had to mop the hair with hot water when she was feeling much pain. She told me how someone said the hairdo looks like that of a old woman. 

I was like you didn't tell me all these at first o. I only admired your hair and you encouraged me to even make it by following me to the salon. She started laughing and she said I never cared to ask what she experienced, that I was only concerned about the beauty of the hairdo. 

Hmmmmm! So many of us, when we see someone who makes global impact, we wish to become like him. We don't want to know how he came to that point. We just want to start making impacts like him. 

That excellent boy you admire in your class and you wish to be like him, do you know how many sleepless nights he has? Do you know the price he has paid to reach that climax? 

That man of God you desire in your heart to succeed, so you can also be called Daddy G. O. You are interested in his fame, you don't want to be identified with his sufferings. Do you know how many years he was in obscurity? Do you know the days he had to sleep on an empty stomach? 

Please don't just wish to become like someone else. Be diligent in asking about their past and how they were able to make it to the limelight. I am sure he will have story to narrate to you. If you don't ask questions, you may not go far because you will faint on the way. You may think all things come so easy. There is a sacrifice to be made.

You can sure do better than that person you admire if you can avoid the mistakes he made and if you can learn from his past. 

Don't be like me who was only concerned about the beauty the hairdo would give me. I  was not patient to ask questions and my friend never bothered to tell me the circumstances surrounding the hairdo.