(By Obianuju Okafor)
You will be shocked by how creatively channelling idleness can help you achieve a lot more and even bring out the positive *not negative* innate hidden abilities you possess.
My humble self got very idle and bored one Sunday afternoon after a long nap when I got back from church and guess what, I just picked up my sister’s bead box (she started making beads a while ago but claims she does not have time anymore). I searched through the set of unused beads she had in the box and got my hands busy, in less than 3hours; I came up with some very nice beads some of which are presented in the pictures! Was proud of my achievement considering the fact that I had no formal bead training before now except from a friend of mine, Late Fatima Olayinka who I watched some years back while in school when she made beads, and of course my sister when she was making a bead for our mum.
Surprisingly, barely 10mins after I used the picture of the beads as display pictures on my BBM which I tagged “Fruits of idleness” I started getting loads of commendations and in-fact some people where wishing for me to be idle so that I could come up with some more…lol. Some said that’s an entrepreneurial spirit and encouraged me to think in that line. I wish I continued but my sister came to pack her beads, according to her “I will spoil them” but did I actually do badly? You be the judge though…
Trust me to come up with more very soon as I have been getting some funny ideas lately and really been on the look out to try something new. I saw some very cute button designed interior decorations while surfing the net a while back and I will definitely try my fingers on them soon.
This drives home the fact that you can actually have some hidden innate abilities yet to be explored and sometimes idleness can bring them out. It may not necessarily be something to create; it could be poetry, music, drama etc. Yes you can write a script!
Just Get Busy!!!
