Stranded in the real world

          Looking back at the days when my primary school teacher will ask us all in class "What will you like to be when you grow up" and you hear answers like "excuse mi ma" "I want to be a teacher, doctor, lawyer .......etc." Twenty years down the line those voices are resounding in my memory and all i hear now is "God if only i could get a job, if only i was married, if only i had money, if only life can be just a little much better" 
Now the question i ask myself is "What factors have become responsible for the different things we speak using the same voice we used twenty years back but uttering different words"? 
        The journey of life goes in such a way that you plan it so perfectly well that you wonder sometimes if anything could ever go wrong and just when you decide to stop planning, the force of destiny blows it's wind and all you have to do is start planning all over again and just when you feel you have done it right a second time you discover your plans were only going to come to pass in a world that was perfect. Unfortunately the real world you live in is not close to a perfect world. A world full of uncertainties and surprises, a world where the hopeless have hope (which is popularly known as miracles) and those with great expectations become hopeless and then you wonder why?

         Some lose it along the line while others struggle to continue. In the process of struggling some are still hoping and others are hopeless yet all are struggling. This takes me to the story so far.

         A young lady who has being addressed as princess all her life grows up to discover no man wants her hand in marriage and all she does ask is why? She has journeyed all through life with a mind set that a princess gets married  to a handsome prince who is very rich and famous. Here she is stranded in a world where she has hardly had a straight six months relationship without breaking up. Now she has come to sit and reflect on the reasons why. Growing up for the princess was smooth and without challenges therefore having no reasons to build up stamina. She had everything at her finger tips and whenever she wanted something all she did was cry and she is given all she wants. Princess has journeyed through life not knowing the reality of life awaits her and that when faced with that reality she will be left alone with herself, her attitude and her stamina to withstand the wind. She has journeyed all through life based on false ideas and practices. Only if she knew then that she will be stranded someday probably she would have learnt how to cook, how to wash and how to speak politely.

          Our journey through life can be related to that of princess who lived life thinking it will always be good, and that same song will always be what we will sing. We were never told a real world awaits us whereby all what we have gathered during the cause of our journey will be the things that will speak for us when stranded. We were never encouraged to hold our cutlasses to clear the footpath in case the grasses grow during our long walk in life. All we pictured in mind was a very bright tomorrow forgetting tomorrow has it's own seasons of MORNING, AFTERNOON and NIGHT. If only we were prepared probably some would not think i can party all night and yet be welcomed home with my husband's hand widely open or some will not think i can have all the friends in the world yet keep a good home. Remember you can not serve two masters which has it's exception whereby you can serve two masters only if you will be the sacrifice. 
        Therefore the answer to the question of "What factors have become responsible for the different things we speak using the same voice we used twenty years back but uttering different words"?
      is lack of preparation. Identifying how prepared we are for the challenges ahead helps us determine what to hope for, what to long for and what to go for.