Sunday 8 February 2015

Life is a race: the race that never ends


.LIFE IS A RACE: THE RACE THAT NEVER ENDS.
  On that fateful day we were welcomed to the University of life in which its graduation is death. Right from birth, the frantic race has begun, the  higher you go the harder it gets, right from the nursery to the primary, and to the secondary school days. Now we were offered admission to the university,  where we were told the race has just begun, how ironic is that?  we are now stuck in the frantic race of graduating with best results and getting a white collar job(which seems scarce). Glory be to God,  we are in the final year of our university days and during the convocation day, the vice Chancellor's speech last lines, were: '' you are now graduates of  this prestigious University, the race of life has just begun, but I can assure you you shall win the(frantic)  race." it was at  this point this question came to our mind,  does this race ever end? Luckily  enough we got employment, during the tutorial for the newly employed workers,  the manager told us there is nothing we can't achieve in life and that we can later be in the post he is, he told us our life(frantic)  race has just begun . Shocked were we that we have to race again? Again we were stuck in the frantic race of life. We ran the (frantic) race. We became managers, the company owner told us that his company is nothing without us. Our mind seems to be at rest, we feel at the peak of our career, but do the race stop there? of course NO!

 Luxury and wealth also became our utmost priority.  We began another race between ourselves which is wealth competition, we bought latest cars and build mansions never thinking of the side effects. We were so engrossed in making a living. We later emerge out of the league of managers to the class of company owners, so lucky were we. People crave for our wealth , we were acknowledge as important personalities of the society, any ceremonial gathering without us is incomplete. We spend lavishly and earn in quantity, we forget about making a life, all we care about is money, I repeat money! Our success are people wishes, they lack the understanding of our race. We live luxurious life any man could think of.
   This we how we spent our days at the University of life and then we graduated(died). They(those before us) have ran the race, we have ran it and they(those after us) shall run it, the frantic race of life.
I hope they don't get engrossed in making a living that they forget to make a life.

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