Food for thought

The brown Pants (Trousers ): Few days ago , one of my friends called me , she was like ,"Oma you can't believe what happened to me today!" She told me the story that inspired this post : Some time ago , a store called Hudson Bay had this massive sales ; my friend saw this pants that was ridiculously cheap and she reluctantly bought three pairs. One evening, wore the brown colour of one those pants , to visit her friend/neighbour. On her arrival, her friend was like nne , this your brown pants fine oo , Biko where you buy am ? In short biko dash me ! She was like really , it's just an ok pants naw , but if you are really serious about it , you can follow me home and collect it ! And that was how my friend easily and without any regrets gave out her brown pants. Three years later , the other lady invited my friend to a house party that she was throwing, and my friend from the moment this lady opened the door for her ; couldn't take her eyes off the brown pants that this lady was wearing. At a point , my friend couldn't hold herself, she walked up to her and said ,"babe you are looking so good ! I love this your pant , abeg where you buy am? In fact dash me joor." She said this lady bursted into a big laughter ! She was like you are joking right ? And my friend , with a confused look , said no am serious ! This lady was like you dey crase oo , no be you dash me this pants three years ago ? You don forget ? My friend screamed ! She was like na that pant be this , e fine ooo ! If to say see am as e fine like this, I no for give you then ! And they both started laughing ! To her , she told me a joke ! To me , it was a life learning opportunity. You see , we sometimes , unconsciously , based on the ease at which we acquire something , based on the simplicity of a situation ; be it relationship , friendship, job, property, just name it ; start taking them for granted. We sometimes need to see people with our exes , friends , in our positions , our careers , just name it ; to appreciate those things ! To realize how beautiful, how nice , how supportive, how convenient , how profitable those things were in the first place ! My friend didn't see the beauty, didn't value her brown pants because she didn't spend a fortune on it ! Because she got it at a discount ! She needed another person to wear it for her to appreciate and recognize its beauty . If we search within us , most of us will realize that this simple lack of appreciation and recognition of what we have , is the solution to some of the problems we are currently having . Please look around you , do not give another person the opportunity to show you the worth of what originally belongs to you. Also , another lesson I learnt from her story was the power of maintenance ! For my friend to see this brown pants and didn't recognize it was because the person she gave it to , maintained and took very good care of it ! In this life , you have to maintain every damn thing given to you ! You have to do things to maintain your marriage, relationship, friendship, job, grades in school, looks , health , finance , everything! You have a responsibility to take care of whatever that is given to you !! I don't know who you are reading this post ! I don't know what you might be going through ! But before you give up , before you throw it all away ; please take time to evaluate it ! Please take a second look at it ! Just to ensure that you are not giving away a very beautiful thing because of your inability to see it's worth! And you reading the post , who might have received something valuable that the original owner failed to see ; please take care of it ! Take good care of it so well that like the brown pants , it becomes unrecognizable to the person that threw it away in the first place . Do have an amazing week , and please remember to value all the brown pants in your life .