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Sunday, 21 February 2016

I GOTTA WIN, OR WHAT?




Fred, the name of this new wolf in town, got out to receive this one call just before he could get in there and sign this one deal that meant everything to him. Steve and Kobi who were here on this one business trip to learn from their “boss”(well, the company was not yet established, so you couldn’t quite call him a boss) wondered why he couldn’t ignore the call since he was in the middle of the sea and he was the captain of this business ship. He was the boss, he called the shots anyway.
            “Fred, your results just came in, you have bone cancer….” Every word after that was literally lost. He had dreaded the news that had just come through the line. The future seemed bleak. Nothing promising. Nothing to live for. He just stood there, terrified.
Through the glass walls, Steve noticed the sunken look on Fred’s face and rose to go get him. He had just walked out of a multi-million-dollar-presentation and right now he was out there on the corridor all liveliness puffed out of him like a flat tire. He walked over and it read all over his face. He was dying.Even before he said a word to Fred, he got back to his senses. He couldn’t go down like this. This was a show he set up. He had to run it. He had to make it work. He hadn’t come all the way from Kenya’s capital to Los Angeles just to let go at the first punch.  He had to punch back at least this once. Life had hit, and this right here was an opportunity.

“I can’t go down without a fight, let’s get in there and bring this ship home,” Fred’s voice seemed sure as death. This was a win. Steve sat back and watched the boss do his magic. It was like there was something burning from the inside. No one had ever seen him this enthusiastic. His little startup company couldn’t win this deal given the giants they were up against.But the kind of energy he put in there was on its own class. Long story short, Fred Logistics Investments got that 86 million-dollar deal and what’s more?He got the proverbial handshake.
            A lot of the world’s population lives in the Fred-limbo. Holding back for we know we got a tomorrow to fight once more.That is why you are not yet where you wanna be. You live below the dollar a day line not because you ain’t got a nice job or some nice education. No! Because you have no fear that today may be your last day here.I want you to ask you, yeah, that’s right, I want you to ask you, “What else is there if I don’t win?”You fall back when life hits you, is that what a champion does? Is that what you call you? Is that the champion you want to be proud of when people read about you?
Like, you just got so much waiting  for you to quit now. You got a wife and children who are waiting for you to provide, son, are you gonna win or they go hungry? You got your sick kid that you got from a broken marriage, you gotta finish college and earn yourself a good income to raise him or what? Watch your kid crawl back to thug life? You gotta run fast and be at the finish line first or what? Be branded a loser and go home without that gold you promised your kid?
In life everyone gets hit. That is what creates the price for the victory.
So are you willing to die for the win? Are you okay with poverty? Are you okay with waking up going to the job you hate each day? Are you okay with losing your property to bankruptcy? Are you okay with losing the family that you spend your entire life building? Are you okay with losing the story you spend forever to research on? Are you okay with failing to get that scholarship you wanted to go study abroad? Are you okay with that?
Son, get up! Life hits that hard sometimes. Sweerie, wipe them tear off your pretty face and look in that mirror, can that girl on the mirror smile again? Get your weight up. IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL YOU WIN!
What do you want me to tell you?

YOU GOTTA WIN, OR WHAT?

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