SHOW ME YOUR CALABASH

If the owner of a calabash calls it a worthless calabash, others will join him to use it to pack rubbish.

Wait a minute! Do you really know what a calabash is? Oh yeah, it is not just a container, you may have to take a second glance at the picture below before you get it twisted.

We may have to think beyond this picture and start looking at other representations of a calabash in life. Like the firewood that we examined yesterday, a calabash as used by our ancestors could be very figurative. Your calabash may be your life, your body, your child, your spouse, your parent, your valuables, your property, your belief, your culture or tradition.

The way you present your calabash determines how people will receive it from you. There are many people in life today who have lost hope in their dreams and visions in life. I know many young folks who think they can’t do anything meaningful in life anymore. Some married couples have lost hope in their spouses’ lifestyle because they are flirt, wayward, addicted to drug or pathological drunk. Some parents have concluded that their children are useless since they don’t score high grades in school; some have even tried to introduce several teaching approaches that have eventually turned out to be futile.

Life is a mirror, whatever you tell the world that you see in the mirror is what they see. If you see a poor man, so be it. If you see a stone instead of gold, no magician can change what you see. You are the only one that can genuinely say something about your calabash. Others may only suggest or advise; they can never force you into who you are not (that is only if you know who you are). No matter how insignificant your status may seem, you need to boost your self esteem and start promoting yourself as an expensive brand. If you don’t value your calabash, who else will?

At times, you don’t have to call your calabash a worthless calabash before other people start using it to pack rubbish. Some calabashes are already worthless. You don’t need to tell me you are clean before I see you as one. It shows from the texture of your skin, where you live, what you eat, how you eat, what you buy, what you wear and how you wear them. Until you start seeing your calabash as an asset which must be brandished, you may never have the opportunity to redeem the image you fail to project.
Show me your calabash; I will present a picture of you (Gbam! Wait and get, no story!).

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