NOT YET THERE

    There was once a hardworking farmer, he was an inspiration to many. It was a struggle for him to take his farm produce to the market, since all he depended on was his donkeys, which were at times slow. 
    The man kept on praying that he gets a pick up so that he could easily take his farm produce to the market easily. A foreigner who was visiting the town was impressed by the man's large tract of land that was well utilised. The foreigner came to the man and asked him to make one wish.
The man said he needed a pick up. The stranger asked,
    "Do you have all it takes to have the pick up?"

The farmer said yes and started explaining how he had already reserved the parking lot and how he knew how to take good care of cars.
     The stranger went away and came back after a week with a brand new pick up. On seeing the pick up entering his compound the man started jumping up and down. The stranger came out of the pick up, gave the man the keys and asked him to drive the car. The farmer smiled and told the former he was going to enroll for driving lessons. The foreigner took the keys, got into the pick up and drove off never to be seen again.
    This story is not strange, it happens everyday. We ask for things that we are not ready to accommodate. People should know their priorities in life. The man needed to get rid of the donkey mentality in him first and learn to drive the pick up he badly needed. Necessity is the mother of invention. If the man had successfully gotten rid of the donkey mentality, he would have probably invented something more great than a pick up but since "others" have already invented the pick up, he only thought of the pick up. But he would have at least learn how to drive it before asking for it. As Africans we are not yet there, there is so much we can do and let others emulate us.

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