The Uniform of Life

While on a boda the other day, God showed me students in uniform returning from school, and He brought to remembrance a very interesting theory.

In school — if you recall, depending on where you went — we all had to wear uniform. Be it you’re from a rich family or an average income one. Obviously we were never from the same equal backgrounds, but the school rules never cared about that!

All had to be in uniform.

It’s the casual wear afterwards that could portray everyone’s level, but the uniform during class hours put everyone on the same level. If you may, observe the image above. Can you tell which of those boys is richer than the other or smarter? Or comes from a dysfunctional family…? No!

All you can say is; they’re all in the same school, with an equal opportunity to attaining classic education.

“That’s what life is!” God said, “We complain about the economic situation. We think we are worse off than another, but there’s a uniform of life. And that is life! The mere fact that you are ALIVE, that is the uniform you wear with those you think are making it better in life! We are all breathing — both the broke and the rich.

That alone is opportunity for one to take advantage of being alive and rewrite their stories, and better their situation! But sadly, many lack this wisdom. They think they are wearing rags after class hours, and yet life has put every one in the same situation.

The ones that ought to worry are those that are dead! For in this context, they are those students who mayhaps can’t afford the school fees, and in this context, there’s no other school. Imagine there’s only one school in the whole wide world.

Just like the students in the picture can’t portray who is richer or who is coming from a terrible family background, so is ‘today’! ‘Today’ has given you the same opportunity as that idol you admire. It’s given you the same opportunity to work towards being rich like Elon Musk.

‘Today’ isn’t feeling pity for the underprivileged or the over privileged. What privilege is it if you can’t breathe Thus; the privilege is being alive! The privilege isn’t driving a fancy car. It isn’t going to the mall and eating a meal worth a thousand dollars or drinking a bottle of wine worth four hundred thousand pounds like the world has shown us. From such knowledge turn away!

Instead, use that brain of yours! Elon Musk has one! It’s not like he has three brains!

And maybe you are handicapped. Maybe you have no capital! Heck, maybe you are in a ‘fourth world country!’ None of that matters. If we are all alive, that means — like the school uniform — we ALL have the SAME EQUAL SHOT AT LIFE!

Let’s use it! Let’s dream big! Let’s also not just do that but work towards those dreams! Let’s be grateful! Let’s keep hope alive. Let’s accentuate the positive. Even if you’re facing scourging drought in Somalia, you being still alive is a flicker of hope that this can all still turn around! You’ll overcome.

Let’s not conform to the standard of ‘privilege’ that the world has given, but let’s transform ourselves and our outlook towards life, by renewing our minds, to see the equal opportunity we all share on the same face of the earth as seven billion people: which is being ALIVE.”

By the time God was done lecturing me, I’d reached my destination.

I do hope you’ve learnt A LOT from this!