What was my offence?
We did a topic on agriculture back in primary school days. It was about sowing. I was so excited and full of hopes that i already knew what i wanted to plant immediately i got home that fateful day. Rice has always been a costly commodity compared to beans, cassava flakes and other food products you can find in an average Nigerian home.
Immediately i got home, i started to work. I took a full tin milk of rice and went to the backyard of our then face me and face you kind of buildings prominent back in the days. With enough zeal that can move a mountain, i set to work. I dug the ground and started filling the holes with few grains of the rice with me. Oh what a satisfaction across my face for a job well done. Finally, i looked for small stones to place on top of each of my rice planting after enough watering just to be able to locate and trace them when they finally start growing. After all, I've never even seen what a rice planting looks like.
For the sake of my integrity, let me not go through the stages of punishment and beatings i went through that day for wasting a commodity as scarce and costly as rice.
Looking back and remembering this story got me thinking a lot. Because you suddenly discovered or developed a zeal and enthusiasm for a project or cause is not and can never be enough reason to just delve into such a project. Never allow our dearly beloved aspire to acquire to refire to propel you and motivate you into a venture you have personally not taken all your time to research, learn, idealize and even test run. I can assure you it will definitely backfire.
As much as my teacher back then did a very good job in teaching us about planting, she missed out the part where she was supposed to tell us that planting comes in season. Not only this, but that there are a lot of intricacies as to hoe different kinds of farm products are planted. Whether you'll meed a nursery for some plants or you will have to make use of bulbs for some or probably just plant a stem for others. All of these are the various hidden parts that comes with farming that my beloved teacher never explained to us.
In addition, there is a principle of time and season. Thanks to technology anyway, but back then we all know we have season for every products. If you apply all the principles and methodologies that you have read and researched into a venture, please be mindful that one factor that can frustrate your effort is wrong timing. You must take into cognizance the season you wan to launch out into that project. While i can quite agree that there is never a perfect timing, be rest assured however that there is a good time to go forward.
Final note from this little experience is how possible it is for useful resources to become wastage. No matter how fertile my little backyard is (and i can confirm to you that backyard was really fertile due to the amount of wastes that gets dumped there), my rice grains that could have fed like a member of the family was wasted due to ignorance. No matter the quality of work i decide to put into it, it's an effort in futility.
Don't ever forget that in your hands, you have both bread and seed. You must be able to differentiate between the two to prevent wastage. Your bread is meant to be eaten while your seed is meant to be planted. If you plant your bread, you go hungry for nothing and the bread becomes a waste. Likewise if you eat your seed, you are satisfied for a short period of time and then hunger comes knocking on your door later on.
Remember, without Knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
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