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Areo Josiah Olaoluwa
Content writing @ Oye ekiti
Content writing @ Oye ekiti
THE WAY UP IS DOWN
<p>Today, I met one of my old classmates, Ayokunle, and we were sharing some of our secondary school memories together. 😄</p><p>How time flew! 🤔</p><p>While talking, we remembered one of our principals and suddenly, I flashed back to something he told us years ago.</p><p>FLASHBACK…</p><p>He was our principal, and after our long morning assembly, he would usually get the opportunity to address the whole school.</p><p>That beautiful day, I remember him walking to the assembly ground and drawing a pyramid, dividing it into three sections.</p><p>He told us, “Everyone on this earth will either remain at the bottom, reach the middle, or make it to the peak.”</p><p>At the bottom, everyone starts. You struggle, learn, work, and gradually move forward.</p><p>Then some people reach the middle. They achieve a few things and become comfortable. They begin to think, “This is enough. I've made it.”</p><p>But there are those who keep climbing.</p><p>They keep learning. They keep working. They remain consistent until they reach the peak.</p><p>Then he said something that stayed with me:</p><p>“The peak of the pyramid is very thin. Only a few people get there.”</p><p>And finally, he ended with a statement that confused me for years:</p><p>“THE WAY UP IS DOWN.”</p><p>I didn't understand it immediately.</p><p>But now I do.</p><p>We sometimes think we'll wake up one morning and suddenly find a helper who will carry us straight to the top. But that's rarely how life works.</p><p>You have to start from somewhere.</p><p>You start small. You learn. You make mistakes. You get rejected. You try again. You build experience. You become better.</p><p>Even people we look up to didn't simply wake up at the top. They walked their way there, one step at a time.</p><p>The “down” is the foundation.</p><p>And sometimes, the higher you want to go, the more willing you must be to start from the ground.</p><p>So whenever you feel like you're starting too small, remember:</p><p>THE WAY UP IS DOWN.</p><p>Start where you are. Build from there. Keep climbing. 🔥</p>
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