FETCHING WATER WITH A BASKET

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Hello everyone and welcome to my blog at this hour. There are some prayer points, proverbs or sayings that needs deep understanding to know the real meaning behind it. The meaning may not be deciphered just from the surface and Africans, especially Nigerians are blessed with a couple of them. Well, sit back, relax and enjoy all that I have packaged for your reading pleasure.

"Fetching Water With A Basket"

Ideally, it is very wrong to fetch water with a basket because it is impossible for the basket to hold water but there are some people in life whose life can be likened to fetching water using a basket, sieve or any of its equivalent. In other words, it means fruitless endeavor because there is not amount of water that you pour in a basket that will stay inside it.

In some religious gatherings you hear people praying that may all their efforts not be in vain like someone who goes to the stream to fetch water with a basket. On another hand, the prayer point when targeted towards people hindering the success of a project, or event may go thus: "may all the effort of my enemies be fruitless just like that of a person trying to fetch water with a basket". In the real sense, anybody in his or her right frame of mind would not see a bucket and decide to go get some water with a basket. It is a way of praying to God to becloud the thinking faculty of the so-called enemy.

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No doubt, the phrase is a very powerful one and it has the potency of being linked with so many aspects of life including our personal lives.

Let take for instance,

As a student, your parents pay your school fees, buy you uniforms, buy you books and expect you to report to school daily but you choose not to go to school rather you go to your friends house to play video games and at the end of the semester you end up failing woefully. Isn't that synonymous with fetching water with a basket - all the efforts from your parents to ensure that you're successful is a waste.
As a businessman or woman, you work all through the year but you don't have anything to show for it. You don't have anything to show for it not because you ain't making sales but solely because you spend on frivolities. You don't have a saving habits. You spend everything without considering that you need to invest. Isn't that synonymous to fetching water with a basket when you can't afford to buy certain things for yourself and your family because you have been working in vain due to your nonchalant attitude.

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I urge you to look into your life and see if you are not actually fetching water with a basket.

All contents are originally written by me, @williams-owb

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Williams Oluseyi is a Linguist by discipline from one Africa's Most Prestigious Citadel of Learning, Obafemi Awolowo University. He developed interest for blogging at very early stage which motivated him to study English Language in College. He is a prolific writer, an inquisitive and judicious reader, to say the least. To get his daily bread, he is currently working in a Logistics company in Nigeria.