THERE IS NO PERECT WOOD, DON’T KILL THE FIRE!

If one were to remove every smoking wood from a fire and condemn it as bad, one would be killing the fire itself

Before there could be fire, something definitely must have ignited it. Then, after the fire is kindled, it takes something to sustain the strength of the fire. In the context of this post, firewood can be seen as an essential tool that could help to sustain the strength of a burning fire. So, just as we need fire to make a good meal, firewood is needed to sustain the fire and facilitate its burning.

Literarily, your firewood could be a friend, a spouse, an adviser, a teacher, an employee, an employer, a political leader, a role model or anybody that is in your life to enable you fulfill your dreams in life and keep the fire of your dreams burning. When it comes to choosing the right firewood in life, many of us are very meticulous. I feel this is natural. For all I care, you can’t just allow someone into your heart without considering the person’s status. Yeah, it is true that there are a lot of funny and fake people out there; pretending to be real.

But the sense in the words of our ancestors for today should not be misrepresented.  No matter how meticulous or critical you are, you may never get the perfect firewood. You need to learn how to cope with any wood you find available and try to understand its nature. Some woods are wet, they don’t attract fire easily, while some woods are dry; all they need is a strike of fire. On a more critical perspective, one can argue that wet firewood last longer than dry ones but they take longer time before they could be ignited.

In life, I think there are no bad woods; we only have woods that refuse to attract fire easily. There are no bad friends, we only have friends who we fail to understand (some of us don’t even understand ourselves), no bad leaders (Late Sani Abacha of Nigeria was hated by many Nigerians, Adolf Hitler was regarded as the worst thing to happen to mankind, Osama Bin Laden was regarded as the world terrorist, Gaddafi was murdered by his people for his totalitarian ideology but some people saw these guys as their hero and Messiah), no bad spouse (it may be that you are not patient enough with them or too hopeless to pray for a change),  no bad employees (even the lazy ones can be more efficient in some tasks, they may help to experiment how some lazy clients would value your products), no bad boss (learning to understand them may be the best experience you need to excel in life) no bad advice/idea (it is just another way you should not approach the solution), no bad whatever…the list goes on. Tell me your bad firewood and I will show you where you might have got it wrong.

If at any time you find yourself changing your firewood in life; always ask this question: what is wrong with me? Yeah, there should be something wrong with you. Please, your fire is more precious than whatever, don’t kill it!

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