Yakob K. Adhanom

Have you ever seen an achievable task that should have been short unreasonably stretch out into decades due to failure to identify a fixable wrong life choice? If so, then you know how irritating it can be to drag out a task for longer than the allotted period.

It took three decades for the young Hayet to complete a three-year accelerated or four years’ regular college studies. How long will it take you to achieve a task that you must complete? It all depends on the individual. Acquiring knowledge from Hayet’s experience could save one from doing the same wrong all over again. Because in the end, after wasting resources and years of one’s life, eventually, one would do what is right. That is to say, if you lost a key, money, a friend, a spouse, a child, health, purpose, and so forth, go to where you lost to find what you lost, hold what you lost, embrace what you lost never to lose it for the second time and start all over again.  

Just like anybody else, Hayet is God’s workmanship, his own master’s handmade creation, regenerated from above—spiritually transformed, well matched and equipped to be used for good works. God prepared a way for him beforehand, taking a course that He set, so that he would walk in it enjoying rest and peace that He predestined. However, Hayet makes poor choices and deviates from purposeful living. His internal destiny directing whisper voice and loved ones give him lectures about what he needed to do and how an intentional living could get him to his promised land without taking an unnecessary detour of life journey. Yet he fails to perceive that more often, what he need to hear is what he does not want to hear, and how hard it is for him to kick against the merciless pricks of life.

Learning from others who rebelled against their destiny could save him from learning life the hard way, which he would not be fond of, repeating the same mistakes of others. In the future for the very speech that he hates his intolerant critics for correcting him, he will love them. Eventually, Hayet chooses to jaywalk by the wide entryway that many enter through, ignoring the small entryway of destiny that only a few find at a cost of time and resources to himself and others that could have benefited from his services.