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Nothing Good Comes Easy?

Nothing good comes easy. True?

Here are my thoughts on this issue. I believe this statement has been misinterpreted a lot and has been used to enslave a lot of people. Let us get this clear: Suffering is not hard work. People have been made to suffer and have been made to think that if they had it any easier nothing good will come out of it. My grouse is not that people suffer; my beef is the justification of the needless suffering by people in high places.

People even have this saying that anything you do not suffer for you do not appreciate. True that, but haba there are a lot of things we ought to take for granted for example good roads, water, cheap internet and stress free education. Trekking the length of a football pitch to get water is suffering that doesn’t result in any public good, being forced to cram something you were not taught just to pass is not good suffering, the bureaucratic bottlenecks you go through to get things done is suffering that profits no one. It is such suffering that makes living miserable and keeps the life expectancy at 53.

Talking about stress free education I remember going through a lot of stress (which I’ve come to recognize ass unnecessary) during my undergrad days thinking a lot of good will come out of such labours. Unfortunately, I cannot even recall any useful lesson from such labours hence any talk of good coming out is dead on arrival. I also remember there was a time I held up my sufferings like a badge of honour until I began to see that the suffering did not do me any good. The lie they tell you in school is that all your experiences (sufferings) are meant to train you but think of it why are foreign trained students better regarded than our homegrown graduates? Do not believe the lies they tell to cover up ineptitude. Never you believe that trying to make life easier for yourself is as a result of laziness, truth be told you’ll suffer (do hard work) more than normal trying to make life easier for yourself and others.

My people I feel life is supposed to be easy, if we are suffering now it should be because we are sowing our sufferings today so that persons coming after us will reap  a lot of ease . Anything suffering that keeps on repeating itself is unnecessary suffering. The only other suffering that is allowed is suffering for our faith. This is the suffering we should take Joyfully as taught by St Paul.


In conclusion, there is suffering and there is hard work. Hard work is playing the Piano for hours to master a masterpiece, studying hard to pass an exam, working out to keep fit. Any meaningless labour is suffering.

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