In a passion filled, emotion laden and intent expressing voice, Nonye screamed “Please don’t pour water in the pot yet... ”. I bet that your mind has started to wonder why she needs to have access to the pot before water is poured in it.
Dashing past the plate of the aroma-sating jollof rice her sister had just prepared, she dives into the pot with a spoon-scrapping every inch of the burnt remains of the delicacy. Not only after the clock had ticked for about 180 times did she let go of the pot-with this big grin of content on her face, she then makes for her plate of the serving.
Question is, why did she leave the ‘real deal’ for the ‘crumbs’? Or can it be said that her ‘main thing’ was the crumbs in this case – wait a minute, is that possible? Do the crumbs usually have better dividends locked away in them? What advantages does she stand to gain in the ‘crumbs’ that the ‘real deal’ didn’t birth? Have you wondered why we would leave the main things and tabernacle at the inconsequential ones?
These and many more are questions, my thirsty mind seek answers to. Wait a minute, just before you begin to attempt to put your analytical mind to use... How often have you left the ‘real deal’ for the ‘crumbs’? What were your motives? What is your version for the reasons Nonye could have gone for ‘crumbs’?
Just in case, you just whispered to yourself; “Well, I have never left the real deal for the crumbs”. Take this moment and ask yourself, how many times have you held on to friends that reduce than increase you? Remember those activities you invest your life in that never yields returns? When wasn’t the last time you left the ‘source’ and went for its channels?
How wise is relying on people (and processes) solely without even looking to the one who made the people and birthed these processes?
Irrespective of the dimension of your need or what you yearn –provision (either in terms of finances, material things, even emotional things), a link, an idea, a job etc; the list does multiply in our minds, doesn’t it?
So before we all press the rewind button and ask Nonye to leave the crumbs and go for the real deal, let’s all leave Nonye’s story (the crumb) and grasp ‘the real deal’ -We deserve the ‘real deal’ and we must leave the ‘crumbs’ of everything else (even this article) and align the ‘real deal’ called our life to the real deals in every area of our existence.
