SACRIFICE TODAY FOR TOMORROW

By Rolland Nwanua

No one begged to come into this world. I believe that a man does not deserve to bring a child into this world until he has created a favourable ground for the child. If you think the atmosphere in the society, in the country is not favourable for you, why bring someone else to suffer the same fate?

You desire so much to leave the country to a place where you can accumulate riches for yourself. You may actually succeed. But no amount of wealth you accumulate can really guarantee the future of your children. Material wealth have no reality of their own, they can fade away at any moment.

I know of a billionaire investor who lost his investments in 3 months. He committed suicide because he couldn’t stand it.

And if you succeed in staying on top through out your lifetime without falling, what guarantee do you have that your children – who don’t know all the pain it took you to accumulate the riches – will be able to manage what you left for them?

The most formidable guarantee you can give yourself is to build a nation rather than build a man.

Let us sacrifice today. Let us use today to appease God so He can bless our tomorrow.

If the economy is buoyant and, there is political stability and, everything else is in its right proportion, the only labour that the next generation will perform will be that of harvesting.

Men and women of my generation, let us sow the seed, even if we have to do it in tears; let us water it, though it may be painful to our body; let us, then, wait patiently for our crop to mature, even if we have to do so with hunger in our stomach; we shall then get the reward of harvesting with smiles on our faces. Our children and children’s children will not suffer the same fate that their fathers suffered. They will harvest with smiles on their faces the ripe fruits.

This was what some men did that made some nation to be known today as developed. This is what men with reason do. It is the attribute of wise men. Men and women of my generation, let us sacrifice today for tomorrow.