THE STIR.
My favorite process in 'garri' processing is the frying stage. And it's also the most critical and the most crucial process that determines the outcome of the final product; garri.
It demands a great muscle of attention and a fierce mind willing to keep up the stirring, making the floured fry-to-be garri dance in the frying pan to the tune of the stir and the rhythm of the fire.
Imagine after the rigorous and tedious efforts put together passing through the whole strenuous processes, which includes planting of the cassava stem, nurturing it with fertilizer to grow, harvesting, peeling, washing, grinding, jacking and sieving to be finally fried and in the process of the frying the whole garri got roasted and appear as a burnt offering of "Cain that got ejected by God", because along the line you stopped stirring the garri in the frying pan in the heat of the fire.
The whole efforts put together will go for a waste, just for one single process that wasn't given all attention, just because you stopped stirring!
Some were just few steps to success but couldn't attain it.
Some marriages, relationship and friendship were Heaven on Earth but now the love language of "I love you" have turned "you are the worst thing that ever happened to me".
Some promising career that was blooming with all fulfillment have turned a doom of fate.
Some were about to be the next "congratulations".
Some were about to be the next record, the next greatness, the next answered prayer.
But just because they stopped stirring, the whole efforts that was invested to get them up to the pinnacle of the next level got aborted.
Dear great minds! This is a battle. A battle front called for a stir in your spirit to help rejuvenate your enthusiasm towards getting your desired dreams to come true!
A battle front to help keep up on a stir to win the prize of the prices of struggle that you are passing through!
A battle front to stir up your soul to stay awake and keep stirring so your whole efforts don't turn into a burnt outcome!
A battle front not to loose your guard guard!
A battle to keep your soul strengthened never to loose your motivation of stirring!
You could be a few steps, days, weeks, months or years to attaining that next level that will change your life forever. You never can tell. Don't give up before the miracle, greatness, success, happen!
You have not pass through the whole grievous process of manufacturing your dreams to birth reality of greatness, to allow it get burnt-aborted just because you stopped stirring!😭