choKED

I was so thirsty the other day that I hurriedly went into the fridge to get a bottle of water but as I gulped the water, I got choked to the point I coughed endlessly for over two minutes. I just allowed a few minutes to pass after which I continued drinking the water. While I was drinking this time, something came in mind that made me smile.

Before I share that thought, let me ask you a few questions. Have you ever drunk water, and you got choked in the process of trying to quench your thirst? Did you stop drinking the water after you had had a long time of coughing or did you allow time to pass to drink more water to quench your thirst? Did you stop drinking water totally because you're scared it could choke you to death one day?

I’m sure the answer to my first question might be ‘yes’ or ‘no.’If it’s no, you can’t say it won’t occur before your time on earth ends. As for the answer to my last two questions, I’m very sure it’s ‘no.’It isn’t new to the fact that no human can survive without water.

Here’s the drill. Have you ever had a goal or dream to be or do something but because you failed the first time you tried, or you saw people who tried fail, or you're scared of even trying, or you just can’t take the step of trying because you feel inadequate to achieve it and so many other reasons, you stop putting down those goals and stop dreaming?

I see you who stop to the human who gets choked while quenching their thirst with water and decided not to have a drink of water forever because you're scared you might choke to death one day, forgetting that water is a Can't-do-without to survive on earth.

In this light, I’ll like you to see those goals and dreams to do, be or do a particular thing that will be beneficial to someone other than you as the water you can’t do without as it fuels your reason for existence here on earth. Take up that dream/goal (water) and run with it (Keep drinking.) For it will help resolve your purpose here on earth (thirst).

There are many more lessons to this but I’ll leave your mind to work it out.

My Thoughts

©Ala O. Wilcox 

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