Feel like you've missed the bus?

Life is like a journey and we are all headed somewhere at every point in time. Several buses, different bus stops, different bus routes. The journey starts the moment you are born and ends the moment you leave this world. At some point, whether you realise it or not, you get off at a bus stop and take another bus to connect you with your final destination. If you are a careful traveler, you'd most likely have planned your journey, so you know exactly where to disembark and take another bus to continue your journey to your final destination. If not, your guess is as good as mine.

Now I'm sure you are wondering "What bus is he talking about?, What journey? What bus stops?" This is what I mean; I believe strongly that every person on earth has a purpose to fulifll and knowing this purpose determines what kind of bus you get into. No two people have exactly the same destiny. We are all designed to fulfill different missions.

We all have expectations for our lives, our definition of success; where we want to be, what we want to achieve, our success measures... how far or close are you from your dreams? Are you where you expect to be? or where you'd planned to be? does it seem like the whole world has run along and left you behind? Do you feel like you are at the bottom of the rung in terms of life success? Do you feel like you are on the wrong bus?

Sometimes when we feel this way, it is usually because we compare themselves with our peers or other people who have "arrived". However, it's pertinent to understand that we all have different assignments on earth, and to fulfill our assignments, we must have certain experiences. Any wonder why it took you so long to graduate? get that first job? find your spouse? succeed on that business?

You sit and wonder.. why does "A" have everything going well for herself, and I can barely keep my head up? how come "B" has got the perfect job when I even had better grades than he did? I must be a failure because "C" has everything made and I can barely keep my head up. Thinking this way will never help. We need to constantly keep our eyes on what we know God has planned for us, and not focus on others, using them as our yardstick of personal success. Yes, we are all on a journey but nothing says we have the same arrival time.

Some of us tend to think "I could have been a success but I never had the opportunity. I wasn't born into the right family or I didn't have the money to go to the best school". But when we measure success by the extent we are using what we've received, it eliminates that frustration..... Fred Smith

My level of success is not based on another's yardstick but on the measure God has set for me. What am I here for? what am I supposed to do with my life?

Find your destination, alight at the relevant bus stops, and fight the temptation to get down at someone else's stop. Don't compete with others in the journey of life, understand what you have to do on earth and then compete with yourself. Life is lived only once, don't live someone else's script.....