Life Lessons: You Reap What You Sow – Sexagenarian Speaks On The Truth Behind The Saying

In an exclusive interview with Alice Atinuke Akinwamide a mother, sister, daughter, friend, aunt and more who is a sexagenarian, she sheds light several saying and how they apply to everyday life which makes them very important. Also some of the life lessons that she has learned over the years.
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On KOKO TV’s Life Lessons mini-series when asked what her opinion is on these life sayings; Wait for your turn in life, Time is money, You rip what you sow, are these saying actually true? She replied saying, Firstly, one should wait for his/her turn in life. There’s no one that God doesn’t have a plan for i.e God has a plan for each and everyone of us. So don’t be in a hurry to make it. For instance, if you say you want to start building a house at the age of 15, it might be difficult for you compared to building the house when you are 25 or 30. The time that God destined for you to build a house and buy a car, if you can wait you will see that your have peace of mind over what you have. So its better to wait for God’s time. It’s true, time is money, you need to make use of the time you have. You have to strive, for instance, something I can do ten years ago, I can’t do it again at this age. At my age, I am still striving as long as God give me good health, peace. Any time you have, use it to work hard, for instance, if you are a trader, yours is to wake up, go to your market place and if its education, the time you are meant to go to school, make sure you go, not that when your mates are in school, you start roaming around, so that is it, time is money. For example, the way you train your child, is the way that child will grow up. A parent that didn’t train his child or didn’t send him/her to school or you are a parent that likes clubbing, partying or buying clothes and shoes, don’t get me wrong, I am not saying its bad to have these things but the children you are supposed to train when you are working and have the power to run around, if you don’t train them, you’ll definitely reap what you sow. A child that you didn’t train and you are expecting him to now take care of you at old age, he/she will be so clumsy, except of God grants the child grace, because for example, some children might not want to go to school, but would rather want to clean handwork, a child that wants to learn handwork but no one is there to provide working tools for him/her and he/she is the one struggling on his/her own to get the tools, he/she might get a helper but as parents that had the capabilities of helping him/her then and you didn’t, the parents will suffer for it because they will be expecting the child to take care of them in old age. So, definitely the parents sow, they will reap.
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She was also asked if she waited for her turn in life, as regards making money, getting married and other things? She said some of her life lessons on this are, As I said before, when we were young, my father gathered myself and my siblings to advise us on when it comes to having a partner. So it was after I finished school I met my husband. All that God has given me and my husband it’s by God’s power and it was God’s time for him to provide when we least expected. 

Can you tell us a situation in while growing up that you applied one of the sayings above?