What gives me the edge to go through life difficulties when I feel like letting go contest entry by @abdul-rauf

Greetings fellow steemians,
It’s yet another week of hilarious contest from @steemghana and I’m very glad to take part. My regards to our hardworking country reps @nattybongo, @njaywan and @oppongk for their dedication and support.

{A picture of me and my mates in junior high}

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing whether this journey of success will be successful. And I have trained my mind to accept it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and in the end we begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. One may not know where he/she is going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.

As humans it is normal to hit bumps through the journey of life They are test from the Almighty.There are times life knocks us down so harder that we start to think of not being able to stand again.This is one of the situations we need motivation in order to rise and fight again.Fellow steemians I am here today to share with you my secret that keeps me going.Whenever I feel like giving up in life and I think about it,my thought of it makes me wanna fight again.Ladies and gentlemen,my desire to provide for my Dad a good and enjoyable life is my motivation.My Dad was all I had growing up.He’s been everything to me.To be honest he made me feel we were very rich when I was a kid not until when I grew up that I realized he was doing for me so that I would be happy.Why did I say this?
The schools I attended growing up were all expensive private school.We either pay school fees termly or yearly at every school I attended.He bought a lot of books for me, things that my colleagues whose parents were well to do I also requested for it from him and he never explained to me that our life was completely different from theirs.He provided me with all those things.

I have thought about quitting school on several occasions because I have seen some of my friends who weren’t able to pass their high school exams or even those who were not able to pass the junior high school exams leaving luxurious life with money they earn from sources they known only to their selves.I remember when I first got into tertiary that is my level 100.I met some friends of mine at SHS who were to offer the same course with me so we started a study group.We all studied together and also did our individual studies.In fact I even studied more than some of my colleagues on my own.But I was very devastated when our first trimester exams and which also happened to be my first results at tertiary was released.All my friends Cumulative Grade Point Average(CGPA) was good and better than mine.This might have been as a result of a whole lot of factors but as at then I was very desperate and naive I didn’t even think of anything but rather to quit my course. So I was very reluctant to attending lectures at the beginning of the second trimester.This life went on and on until the day I had a very long call with my Dad.We discussed a lot of things which doesn’t matter now,what matters now is that that call with my Dad made me realize who I was.Where I came from and where I am going.

To tell you the truth, after I became fully adapted to the new environment my results have been perfect and Alhamdulillah things are moving as planned.Currently my GPA is even better than some of those guys I was worried about in the begging. I have been a better person since then and I even got to like my course of study even more which is Bsc. Biochemistry.I am one of the best in my class now and just a few months away from being a graduate.
Well I pick my motivation from many sources as I face different kind of obstacles in life but the thought of making my Dad proud brings me a different level of the “I can do it” energy.