What Google told Me about You. By OSHALOTO Joseph Tade.
Few days ago I typed my name in Google and was greatly inspired by what the engine turned out. There were several results bearing my name and the things I’d written including some I would not have remembered.
My blog, regional and national platforms like kogireports.com, leadership.ng, thisdaylive.com and elsewhere in Nigeria’s newsplatforms where I’ve made contributions and/or been mentioned all threw out dozens of information.
While looking at these search results, I remembered how I almost never wrote some of these articles. I remember how I wrote many of them with just one percent of battery life. I remember almost thrashing my manuscripts even though I was convinced that at least one person would benefit from what I had to share.
I thank God I wrote these stuff. I thank God for strengthening me to put up a fight. I thank Him for making me realize early that it was OK to start out poorly. I never would have started if I waited till I became an expert.
It is tempting to credit my visibility on the internet to such virtues as consistency, courage, adventurism, skill and plain luck. This would have sounded nice and inspiring given the our era of self focus and unrealistic inspirationalism. But like I did say in the past that ‘our success story is fraud if it glorifies us as one self-made unaided superhuman’. I strongly contend that there’s no such thing as self made.
I hold this position with clear bias given my personal experience – notwithstanding the argument that my own experience may not be representative enough of everyone out there – as per everything I’ve got.
People have a uniquely disruptive way of #Not letting me do things all by myself. Family. Friends and the imaginary foes. Including the stranger. Their entrance are almost always a positive disruptions that gives shape and color to the way I end up doing things.
For example, my sister Yemisi Oshaloto taught me how to write to communicate. I was literally writing for myself with expressions only me could understand. My brothers Davidst and Ilesanmi have been a great inspiration right from when I was in the elementary school. They’d come home from Titcombe with cadenced speech (imitative of their favorite high school teachers).
Wherever I turn, as much as I’d seen some difficulty, I see even greater aids. Koinonia calls this the gift of men.
It’ll be a big lie to say I’ve not been thoroughly let down by folks, just as I’m sure I’ve badly disappointed many, but somehow the Creator have had some people positioned for us to rise up for us when we are truly in need.
As per my write ups that have made it to the press, I must first recognize Toluwalase Teemanuel Bakare who taught me how to blog and to also manage the backend of blogs. My blog, oshalototade.wordpress.com came to being after only a few interactions with him as coursemates while doing our masters program at the ABU.
Emameh ES Gabriel ensured I had one or two articles published in his organization. Uncle Ralph Omololu Agbana is a terrific gentleman who ensure my works get published. By the way, he’s an alumnus of Titcombe College too.
A veteran journalist also chose to reference me in an article published in a national daily. He’s uncle Sanya Oni.
Opeyemi facilitated my works getting published in kogireports.com. By the way, those guys are doing a terrific press job.
My friend and colleague, Kana also gave me a generous space on Opinion9ja.com. Kana will die if he doesn’t do media. I think I will, too.
My big friend and colleague, Kera, aside being a great communication strategist, is an astute counselor who helps me mind what I write against my name. I’ve reached thousands of readers through him.
I don’t want it to be lost on my readers that I didn’t set out to write an acknowledgement. Of course there’d be no space. The import of this is to help you remember that whatever you have an interest in and an aptitude for is a forte that the Lord himself has designed destiny helpers to help you succeed.
As we enjoy raises from others, may God Almighty help us to help others in Jesus name.
OSHALOTO Joseph Tade is a strategic communication expert. He writes, speaks, plays and travels.
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