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Abolade Durojaiye
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The world always stops to watch and participate in anything that brings us together like the Olympics, but we enjoy it for a season and...
We must ask ourselves what we want out of life, and we must create and take advantage of opportunities that will enable us achieve our dreams. I see myself as a woman who will always strive to excel in everything I do. I see every experience as a learning experience. There are no bad experiences in my life, just opportunities to learn and grow. I lost my father the year I turned seventeen and was sent to the United States to go to school.
Armed with a caring family, I was free to soar and once again excelled in school while working three jobs to be able to pay for school and eventually pay for my own place. I was fortunate to be selected as a student ambassador for my university at the Leadershape Institute in Champagne, Illinois. I was selected to read a poem to the entire group of about one hundred and twenty participants.
I am now a wife and a mother of two very young sons. I am thankful for my family, and thankful for the opportunity to be able to give anything I can to make this world a better place for my children to grow up in, and for my husband and I to grow old together in. I once heard that the more you know the more you owe. I believe I owe it to myself, and ultimately the world, to live my best life. I owe it to myself to be true to who I am and who I was made to be.
This generation has forgotten that it is our innate wealth of talents that make us all unique. It is that essence that makes it impossible for us to have similar fingerprints. It is this same essence that makes us wealthy. This generation focuses more on what we can spend and not on what we can invest. We forget that we must invest in our very lives, finances, time, and other valuable assets, in order to be able to live fulfilled lives. The information age has revolutionized the world.
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