The last five years of my life have been smooth and bumpy, there are times when the journey looks perfect and there are times when run into dead ends. There are times when I had to depend on people and times when I had to lift myself because no one will do it.
The picture is mine
In the last five years, I learned a great lesson that gave me a different opinion about humans. I am the kind of person who is always available for everyone but at my point of need, I find it difficult to get help from those I would share my last meal with if tomorrow's meal wasn't certain. I guess I was created like that because stopping wasn't an option for me, I derive happiness from it so instead of stopping, I paid more attention to myself.
Whatever assistance I render to anybody, I don't expect you to say thank you. l believe that God wants me to help you and he has a reason for choosing me to render the help.
I fell in love with cinematography and photography but I don't have enough funds to go and study it in school I was referred to go study abroad but deep down, I know that there lot of people that do in Nigeria.
I went on YouTube and tried to learn but still, I couldn't really get the process. I asked a lot of people about it, these were my friend who were in the line and most of them turned me down. A few of them didn't reply but I didn't unfriend while some even cut me off. I wasn't saying it should be free learning, I was ready to pay but I couldn't get angry at them because they don't want to share their knowledge with me.
It's a common habit here, people don't want you to know what they know so they just push away when you seek knowledge from them. I started losing interest and the passion disappeared.
I joined a church after staying at home for six years, I started going because I missed worship.
Every Sunday service, the church media team do stream the church program directly to Facebook and they usually hold the phone with their hands. I heard someone complain that it hurts to hold the phone for long and a tripod stand would have helped.
I made up my mind to get one when I have the money and days later, fortunately for me, I have like some cash with me and I decide to buy it thinking it won't be that expensive but on getting to the shop where I wanted to purchase it, it cost 90% of the money I had on me.
I made up my mind to buy it, I took it down to church that very day and my pastor really like it. That day, he said why don't I be the media head of the church, with zero knowledge and I said okay without thinking.
The following Sunday, the person who handles our video coverage during the church harvest came around and, put me through some things that Sunday before service started and told me if I'm chanced I can come to join a training section he holds for free and the most amazing part of it is, the training hold very close to my house that has been doing it for the past 3 years.
I started going for the training and the same cinematography and photography I was pleading to learn just the basics from the people around turned out to be something that I am learning for free. Today, I can live stream with different software and do some amazing tricks, I can do a nice video recording, I'm also learning graphic design and photo editing using lightroom classic or Photo shop and all these came for free by just doing the very smallest thing that I never thought I could reap so much from it.
The outcome of the little help turned out to be something unexpected and since that day, I don't hesitate to help as long as I have the power to do so.
Everyone going through one form of rejection from friends or family, I will advise you not to give up on yourself because we are capable of achieving great things even when no one is willing to believe in us.
Finally, let's cultivate the habit of helping and we should think about rewards when doing it.
Thanks