Happiness is a feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you can't help but smile. It is a sense of well-being, joy or contentment when people are successful or safe or lucky, they feel happiness.
True happiness for me, is being able to make other people happy. putting a smile on the faces of the less privileged, the homeless, the orphan, the abused, and street kids. taking teenagers away from the street and giving them a home, Life, hope, and future.
I have had this dream since I was a child as a result of some of the things I saw, and never for once have I tried to change it. I've only be planning endlessly towards it because of my current situation, I have just been planning on it and I hope someday I would be able to go through with it.
The things I really need in place before I can really be happy is money I need lots of it. Not having the money I require to do or achieve some of my plans is painful for me. Some will say money can't bring one happiness but in my case I'll only continue to feel inadequate if I can't put what I need in place.
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The first thing I need money for is a very big land where I will build a very big home like an orphanage. it's going to be home for the homeless. As a Nigerian living in Lagos, if you pass through Obalende under bridge early in the morning, you would weep seeing children some still sleeping and some trying to start the business of the day under the bridge. I usually feel a sharp pain in my heart when I see them and with God on my side I will take as many as I can out of the streets.
Inside the same compound, I would have a primary and secondary school, where the children in The orphanage and others can go to for free. We will employ very competent teachers that will teach them and before leaving secondary school, we would have gotten scholarship for them to go to the university.
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Another thing is that after school everyday, each child would attend his skill acquisition classes where they will learn various things based on their talent, ranging from IT to plumbing, carpentry, farming, welding, creative arts and the likes.
It's going to be a non-governmental organisation and our primary aim will be to take kids out of the streets and give them a life, a little higher than an average Nigerian.
You can see now that I need money to achieve this. The money may not be mine alone alone, I also need people that will buy into my dream to help me achieve it.
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I don't have all that yet, and it will cost me my time, energy, resources, finance but it's worth it.
I believe when I do this my joy would be unlimited. It would last a lifetime.
It will be a lifetime joy for me because my purpose is to make people happy. I Feel overly joyed anytime I can do it that I may not even feel hunger anymore.
So, that will give me the joy I so desire in life.
This is my response to Hive learners community weekly featured contents on the topic: True Happiness.
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