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If we look deeply into the meaning of being successful, we will see that success has no fixed benchmark and means different things to different people. While the very rich today are still working hard to earn more, the poor are striving intensely to reach the point where they can eat three square meals a day, and that alone is success to them. Others who already have children and a well-to-do source of income are still pushing aggressively to earn more so they can see their children through all levels of education.

So, at the end of the day, our dreams, combined with how life drives its vehicle toward each individual, show that everyone will make it in life. It all depends on the target one sets and how well one is able to handle the pressures of life.

My parents are not rich, but as it stands, they have made it in life, and they can boldly boast of it. They have children; some of their children are graduates, while others are into various skills, and they are not living in a rented house. I also have friends who got married recently, and with the tradition, or let me say the social construct of my country, Nigeria, they have made it in life, even though they have just started a very long journey.

"At the end, everyone will make it."

This statement gives me chills anytime I think about it.

At the end of a man's life, there is success, and this success is measured in different patterns. No matter how tough life may be, at one point or another, I always keep this thought at the back of my mind, and it makes me see the end that has light from the point where I am standing.

This mindset has worked for me and has been my imagination anchor. I have had situations that looked very impossible to overcome, but in the end, there was a breakthrough. The funniest thing is that at that moment, I would start feeling successful, and that, too, is what success means, being victorious at one point or another. Life’s demands never end; they keep coming.

Back in the day, I had this "big brother," as we always called him. He graduated from school and had nothing to show for it. There were mockeries directed at him, and he felt every one of them. I know he must have been deeply discouraged about life. But life smiled at him, and it happened like a Nollywood movie scene.

He helped someone push a car that had broken down in front of their compound. The man was prompted to ask about his life, and when he found out that he had no job, he employed him in Abuja as a manager in his water factory. That was when he stepped into success. Although he is late now, I always look back at that real-life event that happened like a movie.

Haven’t you seen people society tags as the "ugliest" (although no one is truly ugly) get married when no one ever thought such a person would? That is life. We should just keep going, keep hustling, and believe that things will fall into place before we leave this earth.

Patoranking used this to make a song, you can enjoy it here👇