SMART ADvice

LOSING EVERYTHING OVER SOMETHING     There was once a young man who dreamt of having this one car, the man had this dream ever since he was a child. He knew if he had the car people would respect him much. The man grew up got a good wife and children. He wanted to buy the car before building a house but his wife would hear non of it. He built a good house.      Now the man had a good job, a nice family and a house but still his heart was not at peace. He had to get the car by all means. He took a loan from a bank using his house without his wife knowing and bought the car. He was on top of the world.     After two years, the bank owners came to auction his house since he failed to repay the loan, when the company he worked for heard of this, he was fired, his family went away since they had no place to stay. He sold the car but it could not give him back all he had, he had lost everything including the one thing he thought he needed the most.      We always want things to

BEING AGGRESSIVE AND BEING A SYCOPHANT     It is often easy to know if a person wants something from  you, they suddenly become overly good to you and more friendlier than they usually are.      Other people will just come to you without any flattery and ask you to help out. and if you are not willing to, they will not pamper you, they will simply go their way. `     The former group of individuals are said to be aggressive, but are they really so? Being aggressive means doing everything possible to succeed, I totally agree with that but what if you succeed only to end up as somebody's doormat?  Stooping low lowers the respect other people have for you. You agree to every shit they say and you do every thing they say.  In my opinion the latter group of people are the aggressive ones, If you don't want to help them out, they will go out of their way to ensure they succeed, with or without you, they may not make it on their own but they will find people willing to he

THE KNOW- IT- ALL     People with the know-it-all personalities can be really annoying at times. They know everything, even the things that they know they don't know, they still know they know. It is really difficult to reason things out with such people.     They are never willingly to listen to other people's opinions, theirs is always right and the best. Most of them dominate every conversations, when others try to air their views, they strongly oppose them even before one completes what he/she had to say.    The president called an impromptu meeting with his advisers, they all came. The meeting was a question and answer session, the president wanted to see if his advisers were up to the given task. The first adviser was asked what his name was, where he was born and how old he was. He gave his answers in the respective order, he said he was 55 years old. The person next to him interrupted him to say that he was 58 and not 55 as he had stated.     "...No you

JEALOUSY- CAN THE FEELING BE MUTUAL?     Jane and June are good friends. Jane, has a well paying job at a private company, a care-free life and what happens to be a perfect relationship. June on the other hand, is a well known model, all the world's beauty has been bestowed upon her. Cameras are always by her side.      Jane is a little bit jealous of June, she would love to have a taste of the limelight, the fashionable cloths, the glamour and all that. June is also jealous of Jane, she too would love to have a taste of a well paying job, a perfect relationship and a care-free life away from the cameras.      The two always see the others lives as the best to live but if God granted their wishes and the other becomes the other, am sure they would both come to hate it with time. Jealousy makes us live other people's lives instead of us focusing on our own lives and as a result we lose ourselves.       When you know the good plans God has specifically for you, you w