Look At Your Mates!!!

The "look at your mates" phrase has done more damage than good over the years.

When someone says, hey!! " look at your mates", what comes to your mind?

Inferiority, low self esteem, dejection, rejection, sense of failure and the likes flows to your heart

What a stupid fellow is the devil, capturing the heart of a man not think straight

Well, let me be sincere and accept the fact that I have been in that shackles before

But I thank God, it was not too late for me to break out of the evil snare of "look at your mates"

There are some places and some persons you avoid just because they'll always end up making you think about position as if there's no hope for you anymore.

If you're asked to "look at your mates" then who amongst them are you seeing yourself? Yes, the speaker wants you see those who are far better off and ahead of you in life.

But you know, you can "look at your mates" who're are striving to be where you're, some of them are not closer to it at all not to talk of getting it.

There's this saying " we might be class mate but we're not grace mate" to imply that those who you see as  your mates might not necessarily be your mates.

When I  gained admission to the University after my College years and I met my younger sister class mates who were in JS3 when I left High School, I felt am the boss here, I could not help but open my mouth wide agape when I saw two men in their early 40s enter the same lecture room.

The word "mate" simply means friend, which implies that it's not a mathematical constant that doesn't change.

Wise up, be yourself while doing your best. Life isn't about "your mate" it's all about you.

Some of your mates are mad,
Some of them on sick bed,
Some of them in prison,
To worsen it, some are dead.

So brace up and appreciate God for who you're and what you're becoming great.

The phrase "Look at your mates" has sent many to unprepared marriages, prisons and early graves, be careful.

Next time someone ask you to "look at your mates" be positive about your looks.

Be constructive enough to "look at your dreams" and not your mates.