Dad’s final Letter motivated my success in Business(Wullap Origin)! — “Beautiful letter written by a father to his son”
Ever since my dad passed on to be present with the Lord, I often have had dreams of him still being around and boy were those dreams seeming as real as air. I would feel sad and start remembering a lot of memories from time past. Then few months after we had buried my dad, I found a letter he had printed and forwarded to all his children, that is myself and my siblings individually. For those who unfortunately didn’t get a letter from a lost loved one, feel welcome to share in this one and know in your heart that it would as well have come from your loved one.
My dad’s letter to me reads:
“Ephraim”, he mentioned my name at the center-top of the paper in his cursive hand writing.
It was headed “Beautiful Letter Written by a Father to His Son”.
“Dear son,
I am writing this to you because of 3 reasons
1. Life, fortune and mishaps are unpredictable; nobody knows how long he lives. Some words are better said early.
2. I am your father, and if I don’t tell you these, no one else will.
3. What is written is my own personal bitter experiences that perhaps could save you a lot of unnecessary heartaches.
Remember the following as you go through life
1. Do not bear grudge towards those who are not good to you. No one has the responsibility of treating you well, except your mother and I. To those who are good to you, you have to treasure it and be thankful, and ALSO you have to be cautions, because, everyone has a motive for every move. When a person is good to you, it does not mean he really likes you. You have to be careful, don’t hastily regard him as a real friend.
2. No one is indispensable, nothing in the world that you must possess. Once you understand this idea, it would be easier for you to go through life when people around you don’t want you anymore, or when you lose what/who you love most.
3. Life is short. When you waste your life today, tomorrow you would find that life is leaving you. The earlier you treasure your life, the better you enjoy life.
4. Love is but a transient feeling, and this feeling would fade with time and with one’s mood. If your so called loved one leaves you, be patient, time will wash away your aches and sadness. Don’t over exaggerate the sadness of falling out of love.
5. A lot of successful people did not receive a good education, that does not mean that you can be successful by not studying hard! Whatever knowledge you gain is your weapon in life. One can go from rags to riches, but one has to start from some rags!
6. I don’t expect you to financially support me when I am old, neither would I financially support your whole life. My responsibility as a supporter ends when you are grown up. After that, you decide whether you want to travel in a public transport or in your limousine, whether rich or poor.
7. You honor your words, but don’t expect others to be so. You can be good to people, but don’t expect people to be good to you. If you don’t understand this, you would end up with unnecessary troubles.
8. I have bought lotteries for umpteen years, but I never strike any prize. That shows if you want to be rich, you have to work hard! There is no free lunch!
9. No matter how much time I have with you, let’s treasure the time we have together. We do not know if we would meet again in this life, except in God’s arrangement of things.
Love,
Your- Dad”
That’s it! Dad gave this letter to me on the 17th of July 2014, on mom’s birthday. Reading this letter, reminded me that dad had already prepared me to take on life’s challenges and come out victorious. This continues to fuel my passion towards my start up software company “WULLAP”. Which is striving so well so far so good.
On my next publication I would be writing on “The Competitive Factor!”. It is about how to get you start-up into space without having an ‘Elon-Musk’ up your ass. Basically how to over shadow any competition that’s headed to take over your market space with their better service or product. Case studies: flashshare and Xender, Uber and Bolt, myspace and Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram, and many other compete-wars.
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