Like what my dad usually say, if God answers everyone's prayer at once, no one will attend the next Sunday service, though it may sound rash but one can deduce fact from it.
Be that as it may, so in the process of your building up, you have to be modest in whatever you do.
Living champagne life on Coca-Cola income will not only destabilise you but will also shorten your life span.
Some of the reasons why you should be real are;
1. If you are living a fake life, you can never have a rest of mind
You will be thinking on how to use a lie to cover up for another lie.
Thereby giving yourself an avoidable emotional and psychological trauma. The large part of your brain that you ought to be using for something productive will be engaged in patching falsehood.
For instance, you have lied that you have a posh car, taking bike will then become a big problem for you because you will not want people to see you on it.
This will then breed unnecessary thought and thinking as to how to balance up to the imaginary level that you have placed yourself.
2. That is how you will be priced.
People will tend to relate to you based on your self-imposed ruse status. For instance, if you as a guy claim to have millions in your account whereas your account balance has minimum balance of N2,000, your girlfriend will not ask for less, because she will ultimately assume that you can afford it.
I trust our girls, even if I were in that shoe, I will do same. This is why some relationships do not last.
In every relationship, there is an id tendency to sit down and think of what you can gain from it, and if positive, then the person can give a consent.
But in a situation where you lied to the girl (still on guys) that money is not your problem but how to spend it, and the lady gives in for you. And you can't measure up to your claim, I don't have to be a prophet before I can prophesy that the relationship will definitely crumble.
Stay humble, let your partner know you and your worth, if he or she wants you like that he or she will wait.
This made me to remember an armed robber caught sometimes again, the flimsy reason he gave was that he needed to cater for the financial requests of his girlfriend...... What a shame!!
Some even get to the level of borrowing clothing, shoes, cars, jewellery for outing!! Haba, I don't condemn it outrightly but I don't think it is that necessary.
3. It breeds disgrace
Disgrace is the ultimate price for not being real, thus confirming this axiom, you can not fool everyone always.
There is always a time when all what you are patching will come to play in the public, if you haven't watched a yoruba film titled 'ALAKADA', you are missing something big, I recommend it.
The naked truth is that, no lie goes undiscovered. Someone that loses his integrity can be likened to salt that loses its taste.
Some even pay the supreme price by committing suicide when it is dawn on them that disgrace is inevitable.... Of what gain???
4. Health issues
Some are carriers of avoidable illness and diseases such as high blood pressure, brain tumour and above all, stroke.
This is in most cases as a result of unnecessary thinking. Because the real fact is that it is very difficult to maintain lies, because you must be able to consolidate on your previous statements, thereby subjecting your brain to unnecessary stress.
Brain is developed for creativity not storage but for liars, it is vice versa. Like our conventional memory devices, we at times delete some files in order to create space.
The fact is living a fake like is very expensive as to what is required to balance up. You live in Ajegunge and forming Lekki.... Diaris God ooooooooooo
5. It chases away helpers
This is one of the greatest disadvantages of this ignoble trend, people that supposed to help you ordinarily will cease to render any help.
They will believe you are living fine, whereas you are suffering and smiling. Everybody needs help, I'm not saying one should turn begger... Hell No!!
But it may shock you to know that the riches man in Africa, Aliko Dangote at times do need help of others in accomplishing certain project at one time or another.
If you are homeless and you are forming Maitama breed, you will die homeless. I'm not cursing you but it is a reality.
6. God will be far from you
It is written in His words, God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. The tax collector and the pharisee, a case study.
Though for real, living fake life is far different from having packaging. Fake like is an extreme.
When you are yourself, you will enjoy undilluted peace and it will even open avenue for you to know your real friends.
Have a nice year ahead.
-PFB
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