Why Should I?

Why should I be stuck in a dead end job because it pays the bills and it’s what everyone else does?

Why should I have to struggle living from paycheck to paycheck and feel like its ok because everyone around me is doing the same or worse?

Why should I be an absentee father to my children because I spend eighteen hours a day trying to put food on the table?

Why should I fail to drive an awesome piece of engineering like a Range Rover Sport because everyone says maintenance and fuel consumption are too high and I’d be much better off with a used Toyota?

Why should I sit around complaining and whining about my life when I can get up and do something about it because everyone says “some people are just unlucky. thats life mwattu”?

Why should I feel bad about myself because I dream of being a billionaire and yet I’m surrounded by poverty and lack?

Why should I compromise my principals and beliefs because I’m afraid people will reject me?

Why should I feel comfortable responding to greetings by saying I’m struggling, or life is tight because it will make people feel better about themselves?

Why should I not have a swimming pool at my house where my kids can play simply because people will talk behind my back about how I wasted money instead of helping them with their self-inflicted problems?

Why should I tolerate life-draining, negative people in my life because it’s the nice thing to do?

Why should I have to bribe to get a service just because everyone around me doesn’t think twice about it?

Why should I feel pressured to bribe God with tithes, offerings, seeds and whatever to get Him to make me super rich because my pastor on TV says so?

Why should I keep hanging out with people who don’t understand or believe in me or my vision for life just because I’ve known them since high school?

Why should I always have to put my desires and wishes aside for everyone else’s which I really couldn’t care about-just because I have to be selfless?

Why should I fear to live the life of my dreams just because everyone around me is too afraid to do so?

Why should I, huh?