Tribute To Isaac Oluyi At 46: The Audacity Of Hope by Femi Longe

Nothing shuts the mouth of naysayers and makes believers of sceptics like success does. Nothing revives hope in you, making light of your light affliction like seeing one against whom it seems odds are stacked scale hurdles. You receive fresh wind underneath your wings and soar.

Nothing puts paid to scaremongering like seeing someone take the bull by the horns and engage in pursuit, thus arresting the purpose of his life. You stand and watch; you see this person roll with every fall, dust himself off and go again. With renewed zeal. You’re stunned. You’re challenged. You’re inspired.

Nothing reveals a can do mindset like seeing someone go off, at times with only half a plan, chasing a dream that looks like a mirage, but then manifests like Joseph’s did in biblical times. You take notice, loom inwards and dream your dream.

Nothing makes true that question, ‘what is that you have in your hand?’ the same way someone takes his rags and makes a coat of many colours.
Hardly anything stirs up hope in you like seeing Oluyi Isaac getting ahead in life. You’re proud to be his friend and brother, inspired to mount up with wings as eagles do and soar. You know you will arrive at a place called ‘there:.

Happy birthday, Isaac. I’m honoured to call you friend. May this be a year of boundless dreaming and achievements for you! Amen.

Femi Longe, an erudite scholar, wrote in from Abuja