
20/06/2023
*THE PAINS OF A LOST LIFE.*
And as I sat amongst them listening to them, I began to weep inside of me not for them but for myself and all other young youths out there, for our ignorant in knowing that, for everything under heaven, that there is a time and season which passeth away with time.
Every man have his own time.
It was a meeting of the Printers Union, on that faithful day, I came very muchly earlier as I wanted to wrap up the minutes of the last meeting as I was the secretary of the association, but on arrival, I met 5 elderly men in their 60(s) and above they were already sitted discussing on how hard life have become for them very recently,
How lonely and how hard they finds it getting jobs again and even how the children they struggled to train are still struggling to survive let alone helping them
They were complaining about how life have be so hard, complaining about the bad economy, bad government, and how it have it difficult for them to get jobs anymore,
How they have lost opportunities they had earlier to the younger generation that are coming into the trade and so on.
Then one of them started making some regrets, he said, how he wish, he had invested in the business earlier, or in any other thing when he had the opportunity, and he immediately made reference to another of our colleaque, a man of about their age who invested heavily during their times and how him and his children are still pushing the business hard today and he then said and I quote "" *I was driving cars, wasting my life, living large thinking I hath arrived, not knowing my season of abundance will phase out someday* ."" "
At this point, i lost my attention to my writings to them, one of them looked at me and then said, *Kevans* you people (the younger ones) are the ones packing all the jobs now in printing, enjoy it now o for its your time
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Immediately he said it, one other man turned to him and asked him; do you rem