Most men who are condemned to the chasm of destitution have their parentage to blame. This factor is perhaps the most unfortunate in deciding where a person belongs. To be born into a family ofappalingly poor parents is to have to wage a loosing battle against uncountablewicked enemies. There's malnutrition to contend with, then comes poor education or even illiteracy. With poor feeding and ignorance forever trailing one, disease soon catch up. With these enemies forever near, a serious pursuit of meaningful profession can be ruled out.
You can make a choice butcannot know in advance exactly how your choice will treat you. Some men are destined to be engineers, they went into mUsIc; many have mUsIc in their blood but went into journalism, hacking, business or Agboro (LWKMD); some destined to be teachers, weered into medicine. Watch that man who appears to be anincurable failure at work, he may not be lazy. He may be in a wrong profession - he made a wrong choice. Once a man becomes fully trained in a profession, he cannot beat a retreat. He just remains ahapless mediocrity in that profession.
''Tell me your friend and I'll tell you who you are (orwhat you'll be)''. You can't choose your parents, but you can choose a wife/husband, friend, associates and the likes. Choice is always deceitful in the long-run. To choose a devil for a wife/husband is to be sentenced to eternal anguish; the association will colour every aspect of your endeavours, from education and social life tobusiness. Likewise, to be yoked with an incurable fraud as a business partnercan bring one down for life.
Being daring is decisive too. To climb the heights demands courage, being adventurous. One might be highly intelligent and particularly hardworking, but without the readiness to take chances. Most of the paupers among us are,in reality, potential successes - if only they canbe a little more daring in taking advantage of sitations around them. ''The worst risk a man can take is his refusal to take risks.''