Today while watching a football match, an old Yoruba man sitting beside me suddenly said something that made me forget the game for a moment. He said, “In our village, we used to say that even the tortoise once wanted to touch the sky.” Long ago, a tortoise became jealous of the birds because they could fly so high. He asked the birds to carry him up, but they laughed at him. So he climbed the tallest tree in the forest, determined to reach the heavens himself. Halfway up, he became tired and looked down. For the first time, he saw the entire village, the rivers, the farms, and the people living together. He climbed back down and said, “I thought the sky was where greatness lived, but I never noticed the beauty beneath my feet.” The old man laughed and said to me, “My son, sometimes we climb so hard to become something that we forget to appreciate what we already are.” All he wanted me to understand was to appreciate the life I'm living right now and keep making the best of it. We all have free will to choose our own paths, but we should never forget to appreciate where we are and what we have. Grow, explore, and dream big, but never push yourself so hard that you lose your peace or forget to enjoy the journey. Sometimes, the beauty of life is simply learning to be comfortable with who we are and where we stand.🤍🙏🏾❤️ So I ask you guys this, have you ever been focused on becoming more that you forgot to enjoy who you already are?? I’ll like your opinion on this