Day 334 of wisdom
“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”
C. S. Lewis
Whatever you are not really ready and willing to give, you do not really have, in fact whatever you don't give you don't have even if it is in your possession. The essence of having anything is the usefulness of that thing, so, when such things are needed by anybody other than yourself you must be ready to give it to the one who needs it, that may be the purpose for which it was given to you in the first place. When something cannot perform its primary purpose of being, that thing becomes useless and will not be be reckoned with as important.
If you have skills, talents, and abilities and the only thing you use your them for are such things that benefit only you and no one else, they are useless and irrelevant. If you cannot use whatever you have for the good of humanity, you cannot be said to have it, because it has brought no value to those who it should bring value to. When you use, or give what you have to others they will always refer to you as the giver, you will always be in their minds and memories as the one who gave for reasons which most likely will be the need of such things.
A Nigerian musician in his song said, "olowo ti ko saanu, is a talika" meaning "a rich man that does not do good with his money is poor" It is not in possession that we have, it is in giving what we possess that we have. A farmer that will not give the seed of corn to the ground to be buried, is that one a farmer? What will he do with that seed? If he consumes it all by himself will he have it anymore? But if he buries it in the ground, he will reap in multiple folds what he has planted.
Givers never lack, because the more they give, the more they receive, whatever they give they receive in multiple folds. Giving is the most honourable thing a man can do to anyone who needs what he has at any point in time. Calvin Coolidge once said, “No person was ever honoured for what he received. He was honoured for what he gave.” Giving brings honour, as much as we love to receive, we must learn to give, because the more you give the more you receive, and receiving as a result of what you have given is always a great honour. So, give.
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John Kamikun
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