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My landlord runs a bakery which is separated from our yard by a single gate in the middle. So I do help the workers sometimes in loading the two buses on which they convey the bread to their various customers.
In time I discovered that none of the shops in our street patronizes this bakery. So this morning, I wanted an answer from one of the women when I was buying an item from her.
"Why don't you buy 'our' bread?" I asked her.
"You know," she replied, "the neighbours do not buy their bread because it is produced in the street."
As soon as she said the above, my mind rushed headlong to the popular saying that familiarity breeds contempt. The seller herself would not patronize the bakery, whose owner has his house opposite to hers, because she doesn't want to risk her capital, since the street would prefer buying other breads instead of the one baked in their street.
Then when I was going out, I saw two buses offloading quantum loaves of bread to a shop the next street. Then I remembered the bakery in my street, my landlord's bakery.
Fact is that my landlord loads quantum loaves of bread too and sells to numerous customers as far as Akwa Ibom. So to the distant customers, his bread is one of the best, but to his neighbours, his bread is not for them.
That's life, my friend. Your friends and family may not really appreciate your worth because of familiarity. They may not see any potential in you because of familiarity. They may see no future in you because of familiarity. They may have drawn a map of your route through life because of familiarity. But do you know what? IT DOESN'T MATTER. Jesus was also despised.
Just stay true to your dream. One day, they will surely miss you. A time came when it was Jesus' turn to dodge the crowd. A time came when Jesus was told that his mother and brothers ( who once mocked him for whom he said he was) were looking for him. A time came when Jephthah's brothers, who had despised and chased him away from them, came begging him to be ruler over them.
Remain focused
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