PERSONAL GOAL

What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself?

It was a passion driven scene,

As I consider the limitations at the

balcony of needs,

Every options looks impenetrable,

But unwearied pursuit says no.

It might looks so simple in the

other world,

But here, it is honeycombs at

the edge of a cliff,

For a son of a deserted

poor woman,

To aim at scaling the cost

of the higher education,

That was my hardest personal goal.

Though poor and deserted, with

no regular source of income,

Yet she defied all odds to fix

her helpless son in school,

Men thought it’s stupidity on

the part of my mother,

Some said, leave him to

wander the street,

He is a boy, he can survive

on his own,

But the mind of a resolute woman

is harder than the batholith,

She will not quit pressing hard.

We put on cheapest of clothes

to cover our nakedness,

We eat like ants to sustain the body,

But we appeared in school with

bag full of new textbooks

and complete writing materials,

Classmates wondered how,

The uniform and the bag

looked tattered but the

contents in the bag are brand new,

The answer was not too far-fetched,

It is resolution and determination

to succeed despite all odds.

We despised our shame to hit the goal,

We mortified self to reach

the unreachable,

We disciplined our belly

to enrich our minds.

Uneasy lies the head that

wears a crown,

That was the summary of the journey,

The goal of my academic pursuit

looks so hard and unrealistic,

But with a resolute mother and

my personal determination,

Scored the goal.

I came, I saw and I conquered.

Though my poor mother passed

on few years back,

But her tenacious resolution still

stands as an unbroken cord of legacy,

That will spine through her

generations yet unborn.

Personal goals are self projections

into the unseen,

Many at times, we seem not

to know the magnitude of

the required, before we plunge

into the process for achievement,

It only takes our resolute

minds to continue.

Hinging on the proverbial

words that states:

“when the going gets tough,

the tough gets going”.

No meaningful goal comes easy,

Achievement in life is preceded

by roaring and storming challenges,

But determination gets us covered,

Till we are made revealed on

the gallery of success,

Where tears comes with joy,

Where cracked bones

are rejuvenated,

And where feathers

decorates our headgears.

I draw the cotton on today’s

prompt by saying,

Meaningful goals are only

achievable, provided the mind

is shielded with determination,

resolution, perseverance

and an unflinching focus

no matter what.