Life

• Life is a series of choices. We are a summation of our choices,  Enjoy the story below.

Slow and Steady: the next big thing after sliced bread!!

He kept looking down the entire time. She was scolding him for breaking yet another picture frame. All the picture frames hung on the wall and Tunji would always climb on the chairs so that he could reach the frames, pull them down and down they came shattered and broken. She had beaten him so many times, scolded him, counselled him but nothing worked.

What could be wrong with this boy, she wondered. He was ten years old and very destructive. They had nicknamed him “wrecking ball”. He wrecked everything in his way. Tools, picture frames, phones, ipads, laptops, tumblers, books etc. “Tunji why, why” she sighed and for the first time she communicated something he had not heard since he started his “wrecking ball” career “I love you son no matter how much you cause me pain but it is really unfair to repay love with this amount of pain”, “Tunji when someone shows you love, you love right back”. On this note she ended her conversation with her 10 year old son and walked away.

He did not move for a while, he felt sorry that mummy did not think that he loved her. He loved her, he drew a cartoon that looked like her on Monday and gave the character super powers because mummy could do so many things at the same time. “Okay I will let her know I love her” he thought in his mind.

On his Eleventh birthday, Mummy was grinning from ear to ear celebrating Tunji her sweet little boy growing up to become a man. Tunji washed her car the day before and did not break any thing inside it. This sort of thing had been going on for a while now. “What happened to this boy” she thought to herself, “Where did “wrecking ball go”? she pondered.

It might interest us to know that Tunji changed the day he thought in his mind to let Mummy know he loved her. Three months down the line, he was still breaking things on purpose but he tried so hard not to break the picture frames then he finally realised the tumblers also hurt Mummy and maybe the Ipad was costly and yes the laptop too until he became a changed person and decided that breaking things did not make Mummy happy (slow and steady change).

Lesson: Change occurs when human beings decide but people see the result of the change after we have consistently taken actions in the direction of the change over time (slow and steady). Our company can change from a mediocre company to a great company if we the people decide to be more disciplined in the way we do and deliver our work. When we do this consistently over time (slow and steady) we would become a great company.

Yes, you only get perfectly sliced bread if you cut through slow and steady!