Processing Challenges As Raw Materials To Produce Greatness

A couple of days back, I was privileged to visit an agricultural processing factory where cassava was turned into cassava flour, and I was wowed. A lot of people may have seen the finished product which is the flour, but the processes involved and how the raw materials were before processing does not look as fine as the finished product. In fact a lot of methods, challenges, and twist-and-turns involved. But at the end, when the flour is produced, you will appreciate it. In the same way in life, when you are passing through challenges and tough times, it is so that you will convert it into the success that you require.

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It is worthy to note that the challenges that come to you, even the failed attempts, are not to wear you down, rather they are part of what builds you up, makes you better, and teaches you enough lessons, so that you will succeed at the next attempts. If you see a finished good, you may like it, but if they show you the individual raw materials and the stages they took to arrived at it, you will understand how challenging it was. When you pass through the rough times of life, it will prepare you for the task ahead and also refine you and make you a better version of yourself. So do not give up when you experience what you did not expect, rather welcome it as part of life's lessons. Life may not play out the way and manner you like or intended for it, but there are lessons to be learnt from it.

I have been to a blacksmith's shop before and have observed that way he worked with the iron to make a fine tool out of it, and it gave me an insight about life. The iron would be heated to an extremely high temperatures which would naturally consume a lot of other materials, but this is not to destroy the iron but to refine it. Then after heating, the blacksmith will begin hammering it with force and precision. If you do not have an idea of what he is doing, you will immediately think that he is trying to damage or denature the iron, but it not so - he is making something good out of it. At the end, when the processes are done and the iron is cooled, you will see the beauty. Similarly, when life throws some things at you that may look like problems, it is so that you will leverage on them and achieve greatness.

As a matter of fact, the opportunities that you have been waiting and hoping for will not fall from the sky looking like opportunities but they may be imbibed inside a problem. It is by solving the problem that will discover that it is, indeed, an opportunity. No one emerges from the University with a degree without writing exams. If any student tries to dodge exams, that means they are not ready to graduate. The exam may be tough but you still have to go through it as the raw material to achieve your degree result. When life brings challenges to you, see it as the exams that you need to take to move higher in life.

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It is how you welcome and see challenges that will determine your reactions and responses to them. If you see everything that comes to you as negative, it will negatively affect not just you but your responses to them and of course, their result will also yield negatively. I have come to realise that it is not just what happens to you that makes all the difference in your life, nor is it what creates your future. A major part of what creates your future is a function of how you have responded to what has happened. In fact, you may not have had the fairest of chances, but if you can make the most of the ones you have, you will understand that they are more than enough.

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