Please, Observe and Explore

Life poses questions at us at every point in time, which could be simple or difficult. Let’s face it; we all love it easy and straightforward because the process of extracting answers to difficult and puzzling questions could be tasking. But really, answers to some questions would never be attained if some depths are not explored.

Something interesting to note for everyone seeking answers is that some answers are fetched directly while some are to be received through some puzzling processes.

Tony received a gift from his cousin. He loved the package and it looked like something he would keep forever. He received it with appreciation and unwrapped it. The book was the sequel to a series he had fed his mind with. The giver was right. Tony loved the gift. However, Tony would have loved to receive a gift of NGN 750,000 as he needed that exact amount to expand his business. He dropped the book on his shelf and it was sure that he would return to read and enjoy the beautiful art piece. The most important thing to him at that point was the amount of money he needed. Efforts proved abortive so he had to get a loan from a friend.

After project sign-off, Tony returned to the book. The content page excited him a lot more. He decided to devour the book in 24 hours. Curious tony flipped through the pages of the book. He skipped to chapter 5 titled “The Gift of Your Dream”. Like a dream, he saw a cheque of NGN 750,000 in-between the pages. His cousin, who knew Tony as a lover of books, packaged the cheque with a book.

It was a 2-in-1 gift and the giver’s aim was to sponsor the expansion project. Tony hit the dial pad, called his cousin to apologize and ask for him to prepare the cheque again. Unfortunately, his cousin had financial issues at that point in time so he couldn’t help. He missed the answer to the question of finance that his expansion efforts threw at him.

Mr. Tony wished he had been more observant. A line in the note which accompanied the package flashed through his mind once more. His cousin wrote “every page of this book is important. Chapter…”.  He should have observed and explored!

Two key facts to note when you need answers: observe and explore! If my friend knew that her valentine’s gift from her lover was a promissory ring packaged in a chocolate box, she would not have thrashed it. It felt like he didn’t appreciate her but she was wrong!

Adamu’s 85 year old grandfather who didn’t attend “makaranta” said that he extracted a fact from ‘Google Hausa’. ‘Makaranta’? Ask google! The old man once asked his son what Windows 8 meant! We realized he saw a computer system specification with Windows 8 operating system while he explored the web. He wanted a new system so he went online exploring and observing.

That answer is waiting to be explored. Despise nothing. Observe and explore!