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The world only creates room for people who are crazy enough to believe they can cause a change in it.

I was watching a video sometime ago when the popular pastor Mrs. Ibukun Awosika said as a young lady, because of the desire and ambitions she had for her life, people told her she was too ambitious for a young lady and that no man would want to marry her, but today she's happily married and living her best life, traveling the world and motivating young people.

People will always criticize you when you start towing a different part from what they are used to, but once you succeed, they all come back to say what they never said to save face or just hide in their shame, knowing that they could have encouraged you.

As a young boy growing up, I had a passion for playing the drums, but there was this uncle in church that didn't even want to see me near the drums, let alone playing them, so he always chased me away. 

I took to practicing on my own, and with time I got better and also met some friends that put me through on some things, and after a long time we saw I played the drums, and he couldn't come to collect the drums because I was at this point better than what he thought I could be. 

Once upon a time I was struggling to gain admission into the university, and all my younger siblings were already in school, and then some people looked at me and told me that I should just forget about school and face events since I was already working as an event decorator. 

I kept pushing my dream of becoming a graduate, and today I have completed that phase of my life because I just completed my first degree program at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. 

As an event decorator, people always say the first impression of me is that of someone who is very gentle and soft until I start work; then they will be like, Wow, I thought you were the soft type that can't handle the rush that comes with being in the event space.

After spending some years schooling in southwestern Nigeria, most people always think that I am Yoruba, and the moment I say that I am from Delta, they think I am Igbo, and then I have to explain myself and how I am not Igbo, and sometimes it gets really tiring.

The truth is at every point in time, no matter what we are going through, man will always judge, but you see, once you're convinced that you are on the right path, everything will fall into place, and you will be shocked how the same people who criticize you will be the ones to spread your results.

 

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