Your quest sometimes can make you laugh when you remember them. 😂😂

At around the age of 12, when I get asked what I wanted to become, I would respond with confidence "An aeronautic engineering'.

How this came about is a serious one.

A classmate of mine made mention of that profession as what he wanted to become and it sounded very tush to me.

I felt like maybe if I should go for this, it will make sense.

After some time, I learned it had to do with repairs and maintenance of aircraft.

Wow!

Who would not love that?

This means I would have the opportunity of entering aeroplanes and be flying around the world.

Noble profession men!

I pursued this even after Secondary school with the longing to be an Engineer who repair aeroplanes at all means.

My first UME (2008) was with the application for admission to study Electrical and Electronics Engineering at FUTA.

I was so eager that I made that school my First and Second choice thinking whichever way, I will at least live my engineering dream.

But uuuuussshhhh.

After travelling from Lagos to Akure with my mum for the Post-UME, only to see the result and find out I failed in flying colours 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

Oh, my mum😢😢😢😢😢😭😭.

She died last week at the age of 52. It really hurts remembering now but we've got to move on.

Such a mother is worth more than gold.

This post is not about her. Maybe I'll do this some other time.

Back to my engineering story.

FUTA did not try at all ooo or it's me that didn't prepare well? 😂😂

How can I not score up to 50%?

A whole engineering enthusiast... Haaaaaa

Now, man has to think again if this engineering thing was worth all the stress.

In 2009, I made another decision.

Hmmm.

Let's leave that for now and see what I'm driving at.

This is the exact way many of us grow into adulthood and live with the desire to become things because of what someone said.

Everyone is a stakeholder in what you desire to be aside from one person who matters most in the entire boardroom - the real you.

You get so engrossed at what others become on the space of social media or the storylines of the movies you take time watching on Netflix but don't take them through the litmus test of your person.

You feel so frustrated at the true person you are becoming and mask yourself in the representation of another.

Yet, miss out on the rewards awaiting the dominance of your uniqueness.

You want to be a social media manager because you saw how much money people are making there.

You want to learn copywriting because someone said it's a high-income skill.

You want to delve into affiliate marketing because...

Are those reasons bad? Maybe, no.

Just that you are being lost from the entire decision.

Did I become an aeronautic engineer like I desired?

Did I even go for a course around engineering?

Do I regret not becoming any of these?

If I am to have the privilege to be reborn, would I ever want to go for such a course?

No! No! No! No!

Why?

It had no connection to who I am and what my purpose now and tomorrow in life is.

I shared in my book, 30 Lessons Life Taught Me Before 30 more expressly about managing such expectations - https://selar.co/8q72

This is even a matter as it concerns things relating to the choice of life partner, the time to marry, the kind of job to do amidst others.

Many are sitting down now with their real selves in regrets after putting them aside before taking crucial decisions

Always remember, at the end of it, you will be the product of what indices you follow.

See beyond what is nice, look for what is right and decide.

We will be wise.

Abiodun

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