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CHALLENGE
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Dear Younger Me,
You should have met Christ sooner, learnt the ways of love and avoided the streets of
lust. Love always wins, lust is a loser. It's the reason my nation has a leadership problem, her
leaders lust after her pot of gold. Lust is the reason many marriages break up, it is also the
reason many kids of broken homes repeat the cycle.
You should have listened more to counsel, you should have cried out for help when you
were dying inside, there is no shame in learning (Person wey dey ask question no dey miss
road). Anything in life, you either do it right or do it twice. I know you had very little light in
terms of role models or mentors but the guardians and authorities you had over you were
enough to navigate the dark safely. You should have not been too hasty with life. Your race is
yours alone; to run and win. It's never too late to chase a dream.
You didn't get to do much real thinking, even though your friends did your thinking for
you and you lived to pleased them. You made a fool of yourself, you gave those deceptions
your self and they mocked you to scorn. You knew deep down that you were different,
unique. You didn't need to t in, your hunchback could break their mould any day. You don't
have to lose yourself anymore, Christ found you and you are nding yourself in Him. You can
forgive them now that you know better, they were broken people too, in need of validation.
Maybe their parents weren't so bold enough to give them words of afrmation. Your friends
are lucky now because you are receiving the purest of love to give to them.
Never forget that you're loved unconstitutionally.
- Worden Enya
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