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Nobody Is Useless,Everybody Is Useful.
<p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">If BabaTunde doesn't have money to contribute to Grandpa's burial, it's fine.</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p> Let BabaTunde be. </p><p><br/></p><p>You already know he is good at serving food. </p><p><br/></p><p>Give him a hundred wraps of amala to serve to fifty people, and he will make sure exactly fifty people get their amala. </p><p><br/></p><p>Not forty-nine, not fifty-one. Exactly fifty.</p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br/></span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">That's own usefulness.</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">If Mr Sonny doesn't have money to contribute to the renovation of the family house, it's fine too.</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p> Grandma sells firewood, and when the Hausa people come to help her split it, Mr Sonny can speak Hausa. </p><p><br/></p><p>He can negotiate with them and probably get Grandma a better price.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">That's his own usefulness.</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Kamal may not be able to give you money or even tip you, but when you are struggling with heavy loads, he will carry them all the way to your house.</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">That's his own usefulness.</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The fact that someone cannot do one thing doesn't mean they cannot do another.</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes, we call people useless simply because they are unable to give us what we need from them.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p> But usefulness is not what we expect from people.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Not everyone can contribute money. </p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Not everyone can speak Hausa. </p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Not everyone can carry heavy loads or organise people. </p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>But everyone has something they can do.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Even mad person sef.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>You could be sad, see a mad person smiling or laughing, and somehow, you find yourself laughing too. </p><p><br/></p><p>For that moment, he has made your day a little lighter.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">Is that not usefulness too?</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent;">So, before you call someone useless, perhaps ask yourself: useless for what?</span><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Because nobody is useless.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Everybody is useful.</p>
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