It is fine to be lost most times in our lives, but not letting it take the best part of us is simply what we should all try to escape from, James advised as he shared his story with the young stars who cared to listen.

Life from the unset was good for James as everything he wanted was provided for him in an instant. The life he was having as a teenager growing up was quite great and full of hope. He was very alive and hence great among his peers for, the provision from his parents kept him on edge above most of his peers but as they say, life always got its way of showing itself to people.

James who happened to be the first son of his mother, but almost the last of his father, had rounded up with High school and was all in preparation to face the higher education ahead of him. Hence being a very outstanding student, he wrote the entrance examination into his preferred school (University) choice and was successful due to the way he hard prepared and with God on his side.

The following year he started school, not so long into schooling it happened that he lost his only serious form of support. His dad passed away and his mom on the other hand was not financially stable, so it was mostly on James to fend for himself and do most of the provision of his basic needs. Though he had senior siblings nobody cared so life pretty much became a tough race for James.

James had struggled so hard with the little assistance from his mom, to keep himself in school but it was very much not an easy one. The bills, the responsibilities at home, everything surrounding him, and the whole circumstances of life changed from the very day his dad died, due to the fact that all his father's possession were taken from his mother by the family members of his father, and this, therefore, became a hindrance for simple living for both James and his Mom and younger siblings.

All the turn-off events, it was tall enough to drive somebody crazy, James began to think regularly all his thoughts were based on how he can make money to liberate both himself and his family from the present state and condition of their life. It all got so bad that he was really much lost in his own thought, the thought on how to make it, the thought of how life has very much changed, how things have become, this really much on his day and night he thought but no solution.

He worked different jobs but it was not enough. All this drove him mad, he grew wild in his own thought, he was overpowered by his inner demons, those thoughts got to him, he lost his way, he was off the track for over a semester in school and this affected his study. Life became really hard for him, no one to run to, left in this world to very much cater to his problems and fend for himself in an already crashed economy where the value of their currency held no meaning for things that were way costly.

Being consumed by your own inner demons is the worst trap to ever be in, through the thought of lack and discomfort he was driven to a peak in his life where things all fell out of place, lost his way, and at the end of the day, dropped out of school. For things couldn't go the way he planned, life was much harder for him as he said.

But sincerely speaking, James said, no matter the situation you are going through does not allow it to consume you too much for they might be no remedy when it gets too late, he told the young blood listening.

Using himself as an example, all his life he had been lost right from the day his dad died, to him his dad was the greatest of all his lost but that he later told them was a wrong conception, just a young child blaming his failures on the death of his father. He told the children to learn from him, that life goes on no matter what we lose, no matter the situation, there is always a way out, "patience is a virtue" he said, they should all take a look at him he had lost his life all he is now is only but a drunk.

He cautioned these children that he should be a lesson to them, they should never allow their situation to take the best of their life and not allow themself to be consumed by the surrounding circumstances hence making them a failure to both themselves and their family members.

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I did say it's great to be finally back here making my entry for the #74 posting prompt in this wonderful community. All thanks to God for life and also the community admins for their good work to always keep us engaged and keeping the community in order.

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