EXCESS YEARS OF YOUR LIFE: What did you do?

Walking into high school hall of about two thousand students was heart throbbing.A look at their faces reveals eagerness for the aftermath of the said mighty talk. I wasn't sure what they wanted to hear. and so I made a point not to struggle reading their minds. I would speak about what I  thought was good for them. That which would kindle fire of self-knowledge to them. I didn't want to be bundled into the baskets of the wise sayings they've been told over and over again. 
These young souls' faces were expectant and the very moment I could run into the lows and highs of their lives we could then connect. They would start looking at themselves and not me. Not the beautiful self, not the handsome, unkempt, masculine and gymnastic self but rather the inner-self.. That unseen self that moves the outer self.
No-matter how ugly you are or how beautiful you look or rich or poor or orphaned or tall or short. they were going to unleash and exercise their greatest strength. That is the beginning of knowledge of self.
These good-looking sons and daughters would start dreaming and if possible start the race. The race of chasing dreams. Remember if you don't chase your dream, you are going to spend your damn life running away from your fears. You will be running and running and you will never achieve any success.
Silence then conquers the room. I get emotional as their eyes change, they are perplexed, maybe they are trying to delve into the hidden depths of self. This is the moment. You MUST make good the present. Make it great. Love and seize the opportunities that comes with it. Otherwise you don't need to dream of a great future. You must stop that which hinders you from achieving the little set goals.

If anyone of them is not going to work hard enough for him or herself, they better do it for someone else. They better do it for that old woman who sacrifices to get their school fees, to that good uncle who help provide food, to those siblings whose future depend on them, to that headteacher to allowed them in class with fee arrears.

"How old are you?" I would pose this rhetoric question. They are averagely 16 years of age. I wonder what such young people have done with such years. Have they been sleeping, studying, gossiping, traveling or just being there? Have they been involved in their own growth and development?
I would go ahead and break their 16 years in my own way

16 YEAR OLD TIME EXPENCE
1	SLEEPING	6 YEARS
2	PLAYING	4 YEARS
3	STUDYING	2 YEARS
4	WITH FAMILY	1 YEAR
5	GOSSIPING	1 YEAR
6	BALANCE	2 YEARS
7	SELF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT	???

  
 The balance of our years are marked in red. Imagine 2 years being broken into daily hours. That would be 365x2x24=17520hours.
 If these were to be converted into minutes then seconds it would be 17520x60x60=63,072,000
This would give us approximately 63million seconds. What if these seconds were made money and given to you. What if in your 16 year self you would wake up to Sh.10,800 daily? What would you do with it?

All in the room would not want to loose any part of that shillings. It would have build you an empire of wealth. 
That is the power of Time. All of you must reconsider the excess time and use it on personal growth and development. if it is inadequate, then you are on the right road. Add more by sacrificing sleep, eliminating gossip time and stopping those habits that waste your time. I assure you; you will never regret it.