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Failures at the Threshold of Successes: The Pains, the Shames.
David is much younger than I but he is such a respectful and respectable hardworking young man that anybody would like to have as a friend. He had been currying the amorous favour of a beautiful girl, Jane, in the neighbourhood for almost four years without success. All of a sudden in recent weeks, she started showing surprises by visiting David and apologizing for her past rejection of him. David was more than happy for reaping the prize of patience in such a dramatic way. He needed the girl badly for marriage. Suddenly, in the same fashion as her recent change of heart to David, Jane threw a bombshell that cut short his shining joy and broke his heart completely. She had visited as had become usual of recent, and David was on top of the world, unsuspecting of any imminent killer news. In tears, she managed to voice out an incoherent couple of sentences. When David regained his balance, he correctly summarized the “death” sentences to mean that Jane had not come to stay but simply to tantalize him. Or how else would one interpret the message of a girl who claimed to have just discovered that she had become pregnant for the former boyfriend. According to her, she had decided to call it quits with the former boyfriend after some quarrel. What a way to fail at the point of success for David! What happened to David reminded me of similar events I have witnessed or been told of in the past. A good friend and former colleague of mine (Peter) had just returned to the country after an in-service course of study abroad. While in transit to reunite with his family, some armed robbers terminated his life with a stray bullet from one of their wicked guns. The pain of Peter’s sudden death got heightened in us friends, relations and colleagues when situated within the contexts that he had just got elevated to a higher position and had just moved into his new house shortly before he traveled abroad for what turned out to be his terminal course! What a cruel combination of flash successes! Similarly, I cannot forget the sad case of Joel, my late childhood friend. He was the only child of his parents. His death was a devastating anti-climax. He had been seriously ill with a strange illness, which had defied all orthodox medications. By the time he was taken to a powerful native medicine man as a last resort, all hopes of his survival had almost been lost. Miraculously, however, Joel started showing signs of dramatic recovery only a few days in the medicine man’s place. By the time he had spent a week there, Joel was ready to go home, fully recovered. Everybody was happy, and a small thanksgiving party was being contemplated. Joel died the same day he returned home from the medicine man’s place. Mr. Tijani’s case also fits perfectly as a failed success. He had worked hard, and left no one in doubt that his name would be among those to be promoted as departmental directors. He believed in himself too. In actual fact, he had been assured by one of the secretarial staff members that his name was on the list of those to be announced that day. Following this promising circumstance, a huge party had been organized to coincide with the day of the promotion announcement. Unfortunately, it was at the peak of the party when I heard people discussing in worried hushed tones, and started departing one after the other, leaving their food and drinks behind. The true list had been released, but Mr. Tijani’s name was not there. What a shameful disappointment! The list of success-turned-failure events that I have heard of or witnessed is a long one. I cannot relate them all here, but I feel constrained to mention also the one involving Uncle Fols and myself. I had been instrumental to getting Uncle Fols engaged as an artisan in the works ministry where I was a Stores Attendant. Every member of the family had showered encomiums on me for pulling that feat through despite being a junior member of staff in the ministry. While Uncle Fols was still jubilant and I was still savouring the euphoria of my achievement and the recognition by my family, he came back home dejected, the same day he assumed duty, to announce that he had been asked to go home. The foreman had rejected him for not being “experienced enough”. This article is dedicated to those that have suffered failures at the threshold of successes at one time or the other in their lives, and to their friends and relations that have been badly affected in the process. They should take heart in the belief that God knows the “whys” of all events. Moreover, all disappointments are said to be blessings in disguise.
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