The reality of life

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UNCLE Musa.



After living in the United States for 40 years and at the age of 70, Uncle Musa finally relocated to Salagie, The Gambia this year to live in his 5-bedroom house which took him 10 years to complete.

Now in Gambia and in his house, Uncle Musa lives in the living room of the house downstairs while his caretaker lives upstairs in his huge master bedroom.

This is because Uncle Musa cannot climb the stairs without the help of another person.

Even with help, it takes him 10 minutes to make the climb.

As such, Uncle Musa has decided to stay downstairs in the living room as all 5 bedrooms are upstairs.

The house has a living room, toilet and kitchen downstairs; 3 rooms on the first floor and another 2 rooms (including the master bedroom) on the second/last floor.

This is surely not how Uncle Musa anticipated his retirement.

But that is the reality of his journey.

This will be the life of many other Africans living abroad and building mansions back home.

In fact, if you are building a dream house for yourself to live in and the house is not ready by the time you attain the age of 50, forget about it!

Uncle Musa virtually wasted 40 years of his life doing menial jobs abroad, hoping to go and retire back home in his mansion and enjoy life.

But, now he has no life to enjoy and someone else is sleeping in his master bedroom.

Like most aged persons, Uncle Musa is not even able to enjoy a bottle of Malt at his age because it will shoot up his blood sugar level.

Yet, he said he was working hard all his life in order to enjoy life, which includes eating and drinking the finest foods and drinks, when he retires.

Now, he is only able to eat fruit and vegetable salads - and even that, without dressing!

He cannot even eat any of the fine meats out there without his cholesterol sending warning signs.

That is the life of Uncle Musa in retirement?

This will be the story of more than half of us.

The best thing to do is to take mini-retirements now and enjoy the luxuries of life now that you still have the strength to do so!

We must all learn a lesson from the story of Uncle Musa.

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[Bravebold]

This story is interesting and funny. I agree with everything until I got to the paragraph that said Uncle Musa wasted his life doing menial jobs for 40 years. Really? But with the menial job he built the mansion. Those who did not do menial jobs, how many mansions did they build? Is their life, at uncle Musa's age, any better?

It is not the work that uncle musa did that made him look like that. It could be anything. We cannot judge a book by its cover.

Yes, it is a good thing to enjoy life but the word "enjoyment" is subjective. To some people, partying, drinking, travelling, holidaying, womanising, buying cars etc are what they see as enjoyment. To some, they don't see life like that.

Ohun to wumi ko wu o, ni ko je ka pawopo febinrin.

Another thing I disagree with in this post is building a house at 50. For me, there is time for everything. Your time is different from mine. Don't quit your vision as long as you have capacity to pursue it.

Moses in the Bible did not start life until he was 80 years old. At one point he said after 70 years life is meaningless. That was frustration because at the age of 70 he was still serving his father in law Jethro.

So, don't look at anybody. Look unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith. At God's time, everything will work out for you. We have seen people who graduated at the age of 70, 80 90 years. It is not too late for you. Keep pressing but in a godly manner.

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