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| Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Prec1ous(op): 6:24pm On Jul 19, 2025 |
Let’s stop pretending. You were not born with a silver spoon. Most of us weren’t. You didn’t grow up in the perfect environment. You didn’t have mentors lined up to teach you the ropes. Maybe your parents did their best, or maybe they failed you completely. But one thing is certain - whatever the case, life has already started, and nobody is waiting for you to “catch up.” It’s hard to accept this, but you must. Because this world, this country - Nigeria, this life… owes you absolutely nothing. Not a job. Not a breakthrough. Not an easy path. Not success. And the moment you accept that truth - not just in your head but in your heart - that’s when you truly wake up. The problem is, too many of us are sleeping with our eyes open. We scroll motivational quotes all day. We follow people that make us feel inspired. We watch success stories on YouTube and clap for strangers, but still don’t move our own lives forward. Deep down, we think someone will notice us. Someone will believe in us. Someone will show up and say, “You! You deserve better - let me help you rise.” But life doesn't work like that. People are busy fighting their own battles. They barely have time for themselves, let alone for you. Your pain might be real, but it’s invisible to the world unless you do something with it. Your hunger means nothing if it doesn’t drive you to work. Your potential means absolutely zero if you never act on it. That’s why I’m telling you to wake up. Because the greatest illusion holding people back is the idea that things will fall in place eventually. No, they won’t. Not unless you make them. Your Background Is Not an Excuse Maybe you were born in the village. Maybe you didn’t go to the “right” school. Maybe you were abused. Maybe you’ve failed more times than you can count. Yes, it hurts. I won’t pretend it doesn’t. But those experiences are not your identity. They are parts of your story, but they are not the whole book. We’ve all met people who had every excuse to give up - but didn’t. They had no one to help them. No support system. No privilege. But what they had was hunger. They had fire. They had an unshakable resolve to make something of themselves, even if it took years. You can build that same fire. It’s not reserved for special people. It’s available to anyone who is tired of being stuck. The truth is, the world doesn’t care where you’re coming from. It only pays attention when you arrive. Stop Waiting for Perfect Conditions You don’t need everything to be perfect before you start. You don’t need a full business plan. You don’t need all the tools. You don’t need the most expensive laptop. You don’t need to have it all figured out. Start where you are. With your cracked phone. With your unstable power supply. With your fear. With your doubts. With your imperfections. Because the people who succeed are not the ones who waited for a clear road - they’re the ones who kept moving despite the fog. Some of you are sitting on billion-naira ideas and life-changing skills, but fear and perfectionism have kept you paralyzed. You say you’re “planning.” You’re “waiting on God.” You’re “trying to figure things out.” No, you’re scared. And that’s okay. But don’t let fear become your lifestyle. Don’t stay in the same place for another year. Time is moving. Nobody is coming to drag you into your destiny. Hard Work Alone Is Not Enough Let’s also clear this up - just because you work hard doesn’t mean you’ll succeed. You can break your back in a warehouse, and still remain poor. You can hustle every day in the sun, and still be stuck. Hard work without direction is suffering. What you need is smart, intentional, focused action. Start learning. Study your craft. Learn a skill that pays. Build relationships. Sell your work. Show up online with value. Stop hiding. Stop playing small. Stop blaming others for your stagnation. And most importantly - stop consuming more than you create. If you spend hours watching others build, but never build for yourself, then you are simply helping others get rich while you rot in “inspiration.” Kill Entitlement Before It Kills You You are not entitled to success because you suffered. You are not entitled to help because you’re struggling. You are not entitled to attention because you’re talented. Nobody cares about what you could do. They care about what you’ve done. You’ll be amazed at how quickly people respect you when you start showing results. But you’ll also be amazed at how invisible you become when all you have is potential and no proof. Life doesn’t reward the most deserving. It rewards the most determined. It rewards those who refuse to quit. Those who don’t wait for validation. Those who show up consistently. Those who decide to bet on themselves, even when nobody else does. You want success? Then go and earn it. Nobody owes it to you. Not your background. Not your degree. Not your boss. Not your partner. Not God. Even God wants you to put your hands to something before He blesses it. Faith without work is still dead. And dreams without action are just hallucinations. The Fire Must Come From Within Nobody can want it for you more than you want it for yourself. Nobody can push you out of your comfort zone if you don’t move. Nobody can give you the hunger. You must create it. You must look at your life and say, “I refuse to remain like this.” You must be tired of wishing, scrolling, comparing, and hoping. You must say, “I’m done complaining. I’m ready to act.” It starts with one decision. And then one action. Then another. Then another. And before long, you begin to gather momentum. You build confidence. You take hits, but you don’t fall apart. You fail, but you learn. You grow. You evolve. You start becoming someone that even your former self wouldn’t recognize. That’s what happens when you wake up. And it all begins when you stop waiting, and start working. Precious Iriaevho - CrudeClarity
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| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by sreamsense: 7:28pm On Jul 19, 2025 |
Well done, you really tried! Very inspirational with lots of meaningful messages for individual. You spent all days praising Ronaldo, Messi and Davido, pick your own message from here. Do you know how much I sold Ronaldo last season, how much I sold this and how much my club sold that this season, but unfortunately; no dollar hit your own account as parts of their favourite fans. Even when you needed money to borrow, you couldn't approach Ronaldo or Messi to get your own share of the money or even for them to borrow you money to survive first. I am not saying youths shouldn't watch football or watch movies, but never do it at expense of equipping yourself on what will certainly put food on your own table in the future. The president you see today and other political candidates also hustled to that position to first put food on their own family table first before remembering people. Don't blame anybody for what you are passing through in life, create success stories out of your own suffering. The wall of poverty is thicker than the wall of Jericho, it takes God's strategy and hardwork to dismantle such walls. You can be born into poverty like so many others did, but it takes your own determination to decide if you want to move out of poverty or create poverty empire for yourself. Your father and mother born you into poverty, instead of you to pray, work hard and move out first, you still went ahead to give belle to a girl in poverty or you went to push yourself into marriage as a man too to bring in another innocent children into your own world of poverty to create family multiplication effect of poverty. Wake up! Wake up!!! If you like abuse Tinubu till 2031, he will do his part, get his own cut he came to hustle for and leave the remaining other future lucky presidents to take over. Wake up, wake up!! Yahoo guys! That's not the right way! Don't ruin your destiny! You have about two laptop or more, 2 iphones/Android phones that you are using wrongly and illegally that may end up ruin your life. Yet some smart right thinking guy just get only one laptop and one android, learn programming skills and making billions through mobile apps creation. Learn positive and legal skills, stop what can frustrate your life in the future and enlarge your poverty kingdom ever than what you inherited. Sorry, op; I didn't know when I entered into the same realm. Thank you for bringing it up. I wish we all listen and learn to get wrong right |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Oshin56(m): 7:50pm On Jul 19, 2025 |
The kingdom of God sufferers violent and the violence taketh it by force. Is either you get rich or die trying nobody will stand for you even your parent will not stand for you it's better you stand for your self. Certificate only can not make you rich hustle like an illiterate and think like an educated person. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Prec1ous(op): 6:29am On Jul 20, 2025 |
sreamsense:Brother, you do not have to be sorry. The worst person is the one who lies to themself. Your response is very deep and i picked up even more points myself. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Prec1ous(op): 6:30am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Oshin56:You can say this again, Alot of people are waiting for a non-existent miracle. It may come of as bad to some people but sometimes, you have to grab it and run. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Arda1000(m): 6:43am On Jul 20, 2025 |
I agree with you partially,one should strive to survive and succeed irrespective one his or her background,but where I disagree with you is about this evil country-Nigeria,saying that Nigeria owes her citizens nothing shows that we don’t have a country,indeed I believe we don’t have a country cus as a Nigerian I have never benefited anything,that shouldn’t be the case and even though many of us grew without feeling any positive impact from Nigeria we shouldn’t normalize it,rather we should speak with one voice and demand for a change and also work hard to improve ourselves. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Prec1ous(op): 6:46am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Arda1000:That is the point actually and we do agree. The country is so bad you cannot and should not expect anything from it. Yes, we can clamour for change but in the interim will you sit and expect a country that does not care for you to look out for you? |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by OKOATA(m): 8:50am On Jul 20, 2025 |
Nobody owes you anything in life, that's agreeable but people who use such phrases against their parents are the sick ones. Yoruba will say WA jeun omoh. (Eat the fruit of labour from my child) If you aren't owing anybody anything sha try owe your parents something o. Cos some people will say I don't owe my parents anything. If you are one of those people, may such a person also not eat the fruit of his labour and may his children not remember him/her in old age. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Prec1ous(op): 3:37pm On Jul 22, 2025 |
OKOATA:True. I also concur to this. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by correctguy101(m): 8:26am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Be that as it may, know also that you owe no one nothing too. Not even love or politeness. You owe nothing, so do as you like. This guy just wan scatter society sha... Smh |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Tunmise40: 8:26am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Abi nw 21. Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Etosha: 8:28am On Aug 02, 2025 |
I realized this early enough... That's why I don't complain. I work hard and pray for success. Nobody will listen to you when you try to explain in your later years how you were not able to make it because it was Tinubu, Buhari and co that were in power. People are not interested in such stories. Men are raking in millions even right now. Men made it even during the civil war... So, what excuse do you have? |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Meedon: 8:29am On Aug 02, 2025 |
So what do you want them to do? To commit suicide or to cry? Let's help ourselves that is how the world would be a better place. Enough of all this "all man for himself." Let us show love to the impoverished and the downtrodden, the wretched and the rich also. That is when the world would be a better place. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Bluntguy: 8:31am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Awesome piece. I love this and let me tell the op, more of that. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by CodeTemplarr: 8:31am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Motivay-shunal speekahs Motivay-shunal speekahs |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Pennywise2: 8:32am On Aug 02, 2025 |
The greatest lie is to believe the write up without testing it. From my 15 years test, U don't need money to succeed U don't need people to succeed U need the TRUTH to succeed. U need to be the right person. U need God. Without these three, and you are chasing money, your name na sorry |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by RPG2020(m): 8:32am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Dreams without goals is Just a dream don't be scared to think outside the box ☑️ we fail to plan we don't plan to fall 🍂 |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by oneMalik: 8:36am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Abeg tell them o !!! Those LUNATICS that thinks govt is responsible for their failure . |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by qanda: 8:37am On Aug 02, 2025 |
I will be back to share my views on this post. Op, I dey come |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by RPG2020(m): 8:40am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Pennywise2:To be successful you need to learn how to say No because the falling off a dried leaf is a warning to the fresh ones |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by SlavaUkraini: 8:43am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Nigeria will be a much better place if every Nigerian can carry this mentality that the government owes me nothing...... but only Proper Accountability. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Elzazzi: 8:48am On Aug 02, 2025 |
I so much love this. OP can we be friends? I love having folks like you as friends. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by chuksjuve(m): 8:51am On Aug 02, 2025 |
This kind of talks is the reason the world is in shambles .. We are debtors to one another.. This sort of mindset is the reason Nigeria will never make it out of the 3rd world class .. No wonder we are I individually brilliant and collectively foolish.. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Hhh4444: 9:06am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Op is not entirely correct. In the case where the people vote in a leader to represent their interests,the leader owes them. If he doesn't perform,the people should be able to hold him responsible. How will a society where no one is held responsible or accountable function? There will be chaos,as everyone can behave the way they like since they don't owe anyone good behaviours. Just imagine you pay for bad services,instead of holding service provider accountable for poor services rendered; you instead tell your self nobody owes you anything, you are cheating and deceiving yourself. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by Yxxx: 9:10am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Motivation 101 continue. Now let me tell you My parents owe me success My country owes me success A lot of people, structures, systems owe me success. Just because I choose not to hold them accountable that doesn't mean they don't. Entitlement too is relatable too some of what I mentioned above. We are supposed to help each other to succeed after all Team means together everyone achieves more. Trying to succeed alone can be hard. Even God encourages a support system. |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by free2ryhme: 9:16am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Prec1ous:Dem full this generation Always feeling entitled as if you owe them |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by miracle002(m): 9:32am On Aug 02, 2025 |
I have an advise for promising young people. Even people with bright destiny and future especially struggling and hardworking people. If anybody even if it is your uncle, brother or even your Pastor promises to help you or to act as your destiny helper. Be very careful and first of all pray about it to know if it is the will of God or not, if you are not sure, you can even take the matter to your pastor. Don't be carried away if They promise you Heaven and earth. It is a trap to lure you. If you are not careful or prayerful, they will even use your glory. I am talking out of experience. Be very careful. If they use your glory, it is either you run mad or die or come back useless. I know of a childhood friend who travelled to Dubai in search of a greener pasture because someone wanted to help me. Just only one year, he was brother home as a mad person. Now that person is raving mad walking down barefooted up and down and street up till now. They will level all kind of allegations against him that he was doing drugs in Dubai that made him to run mad. Please listen to me, this world is very wicked this world had gone haywire, this world has gone spiritual. Just be very careful. Drops Mic |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by femi4: 9:33am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Your parents, family, friends et al owes you nothing. Stop using them as excuses |
| Re: Wake Up Now! Nobody Owes You Anything Not Even Success! by miracle002(m): 9:35am On Aug 02, 2025 |
Prec1ous:I have an advise for promising young people. Even people with bright destiny and future especially struggling and hardworking people. If anybody even if it is your uncle, brother or even your Pastor promises to help you or to act as your destiny helper. Be very careful and first of all pray about it to know if it is the will of God or not, if you are not sure, you can even take the matter to your pastor. Don't be carried away if They promise you Heaven and earth. It is a trap to lure you. If you are not careful or prayerful, they will even use your glory. I am talking out of experience. Be very careful. If they use your glory, it is either you run mad or die or come back useless. I know of a childhood friend who travelled to Dubai in search of a greener pasture because someone wanted to help me. Just only one year, he was brother home as a mad person. Now that person is raving mad walking down barefooted up and down and street up till now. They will level all kind of allegations against him that he was doing drugs in Dubai that made him to run mad. Please listen to me, this world is very wicked this world had gone haywire, this world has gone spiritual. Just be very careful. Drops Mic |
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