God of Stories: My Resolve

While others want to earn at the expense of learning, I want to learn so I can pay those who want to earn.

Greysoft Technologies gives me the tools, time, and leverage to learn—a privilege I wouldn’t have if I were working for a company that pays me 10 million Naira monthly. In case you were wondering why I stayed back while others were leaving, that’s besides the fact that someone bought my loyalty for a thousand lifetimes.

10 million Naira monthly is an enormous amount of money, and you might think it’s easy to come by because I’m in the tech space. But in reality, it isn’t. To be sincere, you may never come across it in your entire tech career. What I’m looking for, what I’m building myself for, isn’t a future of dependency on some Fortune 500 handouts. I want to build a Fortune 500 that others can depend on for handouts.

A turning point in my life, a memory that haunts me every time I catch myself slacking, was the moment I came home from school for the weekend and heard my father say we’d have to move into our uncompleted building in the middle of nowhere. It didn’t even have a roof. He said we’d get tarpaulin as a temporary covering until we could sort ourselves out. I think about that moment now and then, and it breaks my heart on repeat. But every time, it also renews my resolve to get better until better gets to me.

I don’t come from privilege like everyone else, and I don’t seek to make a living like everyone else. I want to change my life, my family’s life, and my story. I want to become the starting point for the stories of everyone who crosses paths with me. I want to become the god of stories.

My resolve is to die trying, and I don’t care what else comes with that. I have a pain, and I won’t stop until I am healed of it.