SATURDAY - 3RD JANUARY, 2026
INTEREST: YOUR BASIS FOR SPRINTING - I Still Have Pleasure Series 003
"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them..."
What can you achieve without having sustained interest for it? Interest is the basis or platform on which your dreams and aspirations are constructed if they'll be fulfilled.
Sometimes ago, I chatted with one of the students I graduated in 2023. He's currently in a private Christian university in the country. I also used that means to enquire from him the admission statuses of his other classmates. One of such news that shocked me was hearing that one of her classmates, a student I as well taught had resigned from furthering her studies. I was just baffled because these were students who attended a private secondary school where a lot was spent on them. He said the girl said she would like to face business. She's an Ibo girl anyway so that might not be impossible for her to do. The sponsors run business. In my frantic pursuit to have an answer, I enquired whether it was because she had no sponsors again but the answer was in the negative.
Looking at the case and some knotty distractions that I heard now surround the girl as shared with me, I asked for her contact in order to open her eyes to the need for a tertiary education even if it'll just be a degree.
I found out that only one thing was missing - interest in tertiary education. While others were giving their best and trying multiple schools for admission, how can a 16 year old girl say she would settle down for business? I was just bewildered at what a person could become that we never saw coming.
What changed in her? What did she lose? Interest! She has come to a place where she's saying, "I have no pleasure in education again."
I could also remember the case of my own mother. My mother had shared this story with us a number of times while we were growing up in order for all her children to receive a push to pursue academically. She said she had the opportunity to be educated abroad. My mum was initially from a Muslim background before marriage. As she said, "Bro. Dauda (her uncle) had just arrived from abroad to Nigeria during one festive period." Since nobody could persuade her again to further her schooling, he was asked to do so. Calling her by her first name, he urged her to continue and that he'll be responsible for the sponsoring.
According to my mother, she refused and told Bro. Dauda she'll face trading that she had started with already. Bro. Dauda then took it further, "What about leaving the country with me?"
All these were attempts to change her mind. Despite all, my mother turned it down. She said, "she was deceived by some petty money she was earning then and the boyfriend -girlfriend relationship she was in."
At the end, my mum never got educated past Primary School - something that pains her as often as she remembers. Her pain always gets doubled whenever there are opportunities that she could have pursued with certifications if she had gone after it then.
Don't lose interest. Some have lost interest in pursuing Ph.d because the Master's they did was strenuous. Why won't it look strenuous when it was after some years of having finished undergraduate studies you were going back for study? That made it look as if you were just starting again. Look, if you won't lose your pleasure, desire, interest or inner drive to do things, you'll go far. Nobody can counsel you beyond how dead or driven you are on the inside. Your eyes might open later but it will just be too late.
May you not join the group of those saying, "I have no pleasure in them again" especially now that you're still young, having the resources and sponsors to make things happen for you.
PRAYER: I rebuke the spirit of error and deception subtly persuading me I've gotten to my destination when the bus stop is still ahead.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 5:1-7:24; Matthew 3:7-4:11; Psalm 3:1-8; Proverbs 1:10-19
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