Keeping an Empty Space. ***************************** Unilag Students Sparked this Piece ***************************** Who are you waiting for?

Keeping an Empty Space. *****************************
Unilag Students Sparked this Piece *****************************
Who are you waiting for?

Today, in a General Class, a student kept a seat ( a must do ritual for close friends ) for her friend who never came to sit on it throughout the lecture. In the process of keeping the seat for her friend, she sent many people away by telling them that the empty chair belong to someone. She put her bag on the chair while waiting for her friend who never came. At the end of the class, the friend she had kept a seat for was sitting and talking to another person. It was after the lecture was over that she discovered that her friend had been in class, sitting with another friend of hers, from the beginning of the lecture to the end. The seat remained empty till the class was over.

I was inspired to write on Keeping Empty Space because of this incident. The truth is, those people we are waiting for will never show up at some points in our lives. Who are you keeping an empty space for? Does the person even recognize your help? How many good people have you sent away in your life while waiting for the right person to come and fill the vacuum in your life? There are times you're going to have empty spaces in your live, when those times come, do not wait for the old people to come and fill the spaces as usual. Give rooms to new people in your life. The person you're waiting for may not recognize your effort and the stress you've to go through in retaining the space. He may not even know you're keeping a space for him because he has put his focus on somewhere else. I know you've to show to others that you care but you shouldn't do that at your own expense of meeting other people who can fill the space you've left for people who never come. Stop keeping an empty space! things and people you're waiting for may never show up and the things and people you neglect may never come back. Be free from caging yourself in the process of liberating others..... Spread your wings...... Keep a space and, if the person doesn't show up, allow other people who have good intentions towards you to fill it!.