A computer student of mine asked me a question ''is there any other good job around that can fetch you good money apart from being a fraudster which is very rampant in our society today?'' I answered her and said ''despite the fact that a very fat percentage of our youths today are making loads of cash through fraudulent means (popularly tagged YAHOO YAHOO BOYS or G-BOYS or D STREET) and many of them even go as far as eating human sheets/excreta and bread as a part of their money ritual, some even go beyond the impossible to killing their biological parents just for money and they are building houses, buying cars, eating good foods in shoprites, travelling to Dubai, etc., doesn't mean that there are no other good jobs around that can fetch you good money even more than that of those fraudsters. This is why I am different. During my leisures; outside office hours, I write good stories, i post on STEEMIT.COM, i get cool cash without breaking the Law''. She was astonished by my reply and said she had already made up her mind to join the tricksters clique, but now she has seen reasons not to, but to be positively different.
Are you different? Then, prove it in your:
FAMILY:
There is this trend going on that a person is being tagged by the nature, lifestyle, situation or predicament of his/her family. For instance, a family could be tagged as ''a family of drunkards or the mad alcoholic family'' or maybe something worse. How can you prove your positive difference? Just abstain from alcohol, stay away from places/people that would stir up your alcoholic urge; strive hard to break out from that wrong stigma! it starts with you. Yes you! Don't allow it to overcome your lineage, rather, be the over-comer and the diff maker. I am not advising you to soak yourself in sweet sweet sweet, there are so many not sweet drinks, leaves/vegetables (e.g. Bitter leaf, etc.), honey, fruits, peppersoups that you can take to avoid much sugar in your body. If you could read on one of @emmanuel-jackson articles which says ''alcohol should be restricted...), you would understand better.
TRIBE:
It is very common here in Nigeria that once you mention your tribe, with immediate effect, your tribe tag would be revealed to you. I don't want to mention any tribe, but you would hear:
... The people from this tribe are very dirty
... The people from this tribe are very greedy and stingy
... The people from this tribe eat humans
... The people from this tribe are polygamous/polyandrous
... The people from this tribe use humans for money rituals
... The people from this tribe are these and that...
You would hear a negative tag (e.g. dirtiness) concerning your tribe, yet your mouth is still smelling - you cannot brush well, your pubic regions are polluting the environment - you cannot bathe well. Hmmmmm! you are just increasing the longevity of your tribal dirtiness tag. You need to start making the difference now. I would refer you to one of my posts on stinky mouth and its remedy.
Sometimes, you might hear that your tribal women are always getting pregnant for at least 7 different men and not staying in their houses, yet you as a girl, have turned yourself into an electric transformer, any man can come, tap current and go (either for free or for fee). The good news is that, no matter how you are, you can still turn a new live, break away from the tribal stigma and make the positive difference.
PRAYERS:
This is the best of all my previous advises. There are some cases that are way too spiritual (beyond the physical) that cannot be solved without prayers.
Sometime ago, most of our forefathers, in attempts to protect us from sickness, etc., go into family some dangerous covenants with some demonic gods of goddesses. And these covenants would keep on prevailing except prayers are involved. Some of these covenants could be:
- premature death
- poverty
- graduating without jobs
- not graduating at all
- marital failure
- drunk mogul
- unfruitfulness, etc.
But there is good news again! The good news is that we know a name that is powerful. Hallelujah eh! This name is bigger than any situation. At the mention of this name every knee must bow, every tongue must confess. I guess you know this name. Let us scream it together (((((((JESUS)))))))...
Just believe in HIM and HE would solve all your problems. Jabez believed, Hannah believed, Sarah believed, so many other people including me, believed, they prayed and their problems were solved. 1 Thes.5:17 says ''pray without ceasing''. Make it a habit it works. The positive difference starts from you.
May GOD BLESS YOU AND GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH TO BE POSITIVELY DIFFERENT IN ALL RAMIFICATIONS OF YOUR LIFE. AMEN!!!