LIFE VISION
It is popularly said that a man who does not have a vision
certainly is on a journey to no where.
Life is meant to be lived and not to be endured and to live
a life worthy of emulation, one must have a vision.
The vision captures one’s reason for existence; it is the
very essence for which one is alife.
A life vision gives one a longer staying power than a
no-vision life.
What is a vision?
The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary defines vision as “an
idea or a picture in your imagination” and it also goes further to state that
vision is “the ability to think about or plan the future with great imagination
and intelligence.”
From this definition, anyone who does not have a dream of
what he wants to accomplish in life is actually a passer by.
When I was a teenager, I decided that I was going to be a
Medical Doctor, the idea of helping sick people get well appealed greatly to me
and made me arrive at that decision. I visualised myself as a Medical Doctor.
So some where along the line I lost that vision because I could not get admission
to read Medicine in the University so I ended up doing an NCE in
Biology/Chemistry and becoming a teacher subsequently after the NYSC programme.
But four years down the line of being a Teacher, I was bitten by that bug which
had earlier given me a vision as a Medical Doctor; so I had to abandon
everything I was doing, I did odds and bits to be able to pay my way through
the Medical School and in 1991 I graduated from the University of Calabar with
the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Degree which effectively made me
a Medical Doctor and gave me the license to be fulfilled in life.
