BUCKET WITH A HOLE

Hello y'all,

Have you ever tried being you and the thought "being me is not fashionable" runs through your mind or, you say to yourself “I don’t fit in with the happening clique"  so you try to be like them?

Well yes, that was the case for me. I didn’t want to be me at all. I didn’t see anything good about myself or my abilities.
I told myself “I could never make sense or be impactful. I never saw the good qualities I had within me.

There was a way I could talk and people would be impacted but I thought to myself "what’s so cool about that..........Nothing!!" I thought.

I tried to talk like them, be like them, act like them, but I couldn't sustain it.
The journey to being like another was tedious. It was difficult to keep up with, but I went on till I heard this story.
The story of a man who had two buckets, one bucket seemed perfect and the other one had a hole. Every day, he would take the buckets to the stream to get water.
Each day he went to the stream to get water, he would pass through the farmland to get home.
On this faithful day, the bucket with a hole became sad  that she had not been taking full bucket of water home for her master like the other bucket does.

The bucket kept on being sad till she summoned the courage to meet her master. She said to her master "Master, I am sorry for not giving you your desired result”. The master then took her by the hand to his farm and showed her the beautiful rose plants by the pathway, then he said to her,"there is no need to be sad, look at this beautiful flower, you made them grow.

The bucket looked stunned. She didn’t understand what the master had said.Then she closed her mouth, swallowed saliva then asked "how"?
Then the master explained "whenever we are returning from the stream, I purposely carried you on my right hand where the roses are planted and as we moved on daily, you watered those roses.

Hearing this story, I realized that by just being me, I could impact many lives, consciously and unconsciously. You can learn from the examples of others but you must filter what you learn through your personality because before God created you, He asked Himself “what your responsibility would be on earth? And then He shaped you for that task. Don’t be a copy, be an original. You are the way you are because you were shaped for a specific purpose: find it.

See what the Scriptures says in Psalms 139:13-16 (NIV)
 

¹³For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

Celebrate YOU. You are unique, not an accident pal.

 Smith Mosunmola Olamide