Every morning in Clement street, hope woke up before the sun. It always started from Mr Akan's house, where the first morning cry for prayer would be heard and everyone would gather for prayers.
This story is about Peter a young man who lives in the countryside a part of the country where urbanization was scarce and opportunities were rare. Peter since growing up had been a big dreamer, he had big dreams of becoming successful. He believed that he would one day make it to the urbanized area of the country and then success would be easy he thought.
Peter believed that he would get to accomplish his dreams because his intentions were pure and his determination was solid. He expected life to go easy on him cause he had been upright in his dealings with his fellow human beings.
But life has it way of doing things, it seemed as if his dreams were baseless, life he felt was unjust to him, things didn't go the way he expected them to. It came to a point were he decided to give up on his dreams, he was losing his years long driving ambitions.
One afternoon after another failed job interview, and the girl he proposed to rejected him Peter sat outside his house feeling dejected and exhausted from his life struggles. The evening was a cold one but due to his depressed state Peter wasn't feeling cold, as he had so much going on in his mind, from the failed job interview to his rejected proposal he also had the weight of his family's well being on his shoulders, his father's hospital bills.
During that moment of Peter's lamentations, Mr Lincoln the elderly man known for his wisdom, happened to be passing by he paused when he saw Peter, then he approached him and placed his hand gently on his shoulder and said:
"Peter dreams are the seed and expectation is the harvest. If you dream today you must give ur dreams time to come to reality the process doesn't follow your schedule."
Those words though few sank deeply into Peter's heart, he realized that he wasn't worn out by life itself but by his impatience in waiting for the realization of his dreams, his gradual loss of his years long ambition came from his believe of his dreams coming to reality quickly without him having to work hard for it, he started losing hope because he was taking the wrong path in life.
From that day Peter's expectation change. Instead of waiting for his dreams to come to reality he started working towards the realization of his dreams. instead of dreaming only he started working.
Overtime he started actualizing his dreams, hardwork replaced dreams, growth replaced impatience.
With time Peter gathered enough fuunds to travel to the city,
He went for another job interview and this time around he was employed. He was a devoted employee putting lots of effort to his work, he made lots of progress in his job he got promoted to a position of higher salary, days truned to weeks, weeks turned to months and months to years, Peter looking back now realised that dreams without hardwork, dreams without effort to make them real was an actual waste of time.
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