MAKING YOURSELF RELEVANT TO LIFE WITHOUT BEING EXPIRED!

It is a serious thing for someone to be irrelevant to life while he is still living. Such an individual is not longer relevant to the present situation. Such a fellow has lost is vision.Let me make myself clear from the outset. It is not only the dis-abled people that are irrelevant to life. No, not so.Because we have so great number of dis-abled people out there who are relevant to life. In their very form and state, they are of great benefit and value to the world around them.Irrelevant individual? You will know them when you see them, such fellow has the hall marks of expiration conspicuously featuring in his haggard and rotten lifestyle. Such fellow life is full of good intentions but void of definite action. Ask him when he is going to buy is own car, he tells you he is going to buy the latest car in town. What is he doing presently to achieve this? Absolutely nothing.! Ask him when he is going to further his education, very soon he says. It was the same response he gave five years ago! Very soon indeed! While others are moving on with their masters and doctorate degree in various human endeavor and profession, he move on with his own in procrastination. Such fellow vision is difficult to distinguish (i.e blurred) and his future and career is rotating on the axis of unconscious of what is happening around him (i.e oblivion) and revolving on the orbit of poverty.The person may be a teacher. He is still using the note of lesson he prepared donkey years ago to teach. Such fellow is not wedding new ideas into is lesson notes. He know nothing about the new development in his area of specialization.Come to think of it! He is not Enterprising,while others are publishing, he is perishing! While others are fast flourishing, he is near-finishing.Is only hope of survival depends on the pay-packet job from his employer.Worse still, such fellow is not progressive, he is not a dynamic worker. He is still carrying about the certificate he obtained ten to fifteen years of experience on the jobwhile his mates and colleagues have gone far ahead of him. He seems comfortable with is situation. Now, tell me does he need anybody to tell him that he is irrelevantor expired?the person might be a student. He was formerly second to none in his class academically. At each yearly prize giving day ceremony, he would win more than half the number of prizes meant for distribution to diligent students in his class. He would even go to the extent of burning the mid-night oil to maintain his academic excellence. He had no time for nonsense, he had a reputation for possessing a purposeful heart that wouldnot yield until his aim is achieved. But now, something has just suddenly come over him, he has turned to be the very opposite of his former self. He has been spoilt by the current tide of "settlement" parlance that has bedeviled many secondary school students by which prepared answers would just be supplied to them during their final year examination for which they had already paid! A student who would not need anybody to tell him to go and read now needs to be pushed to do so. He is irrelevant and expired, no doubt about it.Sad to say, the political scene as important as it is in determining the fate of a nation's citizens is not also free from irrelevant and expired practitioners. As a politician, the expired individual has no clear-cut manifestoes. So, it is difficult to measure his achievement. Four years are not enough for him to make concrete achievement. He blames his non-performanceof the end of his term in office on"logistic problems" and begs the poor electorates to givehim one more chance to consolidate his plans. He is deaf to the hues and cries of the suffering masses.For many, the day they physically died was not the real day of their death. They had died many years before the day of their physical death. They died years ago when they ceased to be relevant to the existing situation. Conversely for some, long after they had died they still continue to be relevant to life. They continue to impact lives positively by the good works they had done while alive. They outlast their lifespan.Pause and think. What is your present state like? Are you still staying relevant to life? ROBERT SCHULLAR says "THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE BAD NEWS CAN BE CHANGED TO GOOD NEWS WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE". Be determined to live and be relevant to life all the days of your life without being expired. Refuse to be irrelevant while you are still alive, continue moving on in order to be relevant because "the distance you can walk determines the power and greatness in you....