* I was flogged by my father for doing music :- Wizkid
* I got pregnant at 17, during my secondary school days: –Genevieve Nnaji
* I didn’t even complete my university education: –Bill Gates
* I once sold plantain: –Inetimi Odon (Timaya)
* I used to serve tea at a shop to support my football training: –Lionel Messi
* I slept under the bridge in Lagos: –Ramsey Noah
* I sold rat poison : –Patrick Okorie (Patoranking)
* I was an unwanted baby, my mother almost aborted me: –Cristiano Ronaldo
* I was formerly a maid: –Mercy Johnson
* My family was so poor that even poor people called us poor: –Pastor E.A. Adeboye
* I was once a bus conductor: –Atunyota Akpobome (Ali Baba)
* When I remember my past, it was poverty. When I pass on the road, people usually laugh at me: –Duncan Okechukwu (Duncan Mighty)
* I was in the university for 9 years: –Ayo Makun (AY)
* I was a school dropout: –Mark Zuckerberg
* I grew up in a slum at Ajegunle: –John Asiemo (Daddy Showkey)
* I begged for a chance to perform on stage for free for just 5 minutes, but I wasn’t given the chance: –Francis Agoda (I Go Dye)
* I once had no shoes: –Goodluck Jonathan
* I was rejected from birth by my father because he didn’t want a girl: –Chika Ike
* I got pregnant when I was in SS3 and was banned from singing in church choir: –Aituaje Iruobe (Waje)
* My family was the poorest in my village; I sold firewood, I was a butcher and also a hairdresser: –John Okafor (Mr Ibu)
WHAT’S YOUR STORY?
Life throws a thousand reasons to quit at you.
A thousand whispers telling you to give up, to surrender, to let go. But what about your voice? What about the fire in your gut that refuses to be extinguished?
Life’s battles are tough, no doubt, but you are tougher.
Keep your head high, your gaze fixed on the horizon.
Your story isn’t over yet. You have the strength within you to overcome.
Don’t just survive….. thrive.
Write your own ending.
What’s your story?
Share them with us below!