What's all the hussle for?

Two days ago I called up my old man just to say hi - his first sentence was, "so today you have been able to make time to call?". I was a bit shaken but has since given me loads of food for thought. I haven't even reached my peak and yet some of the things I complained about older folks a few years ago are beginning to show in me - they are too busy to have time for us. It is a fact that I am losing lots of social (especially family) too early.

Teaching at the Bolga Polytechnic, Computer Literacy and Management Information Systems plus some administrative work is already a full job description for the average man. But for some reasons, it is one quarter of a job description for me.

I also have Physics classes (students) to take in my alma mater, the great Notre Dame Seminary School (35km away) till December. Surely, preparing the lesson notes, being in class to deliver and to mark scripts is already a job description for thousands of teachers in the country.

I have my little office of BoldTech Consults (www.boldtechghana.com) to grow and training for my new office manager at the Tamale Polytechnic campus (160km away). This alone is a hell of a job with so many contacts to build and maintain. Making up follow up calls and visits, strategising on how to "cripple" competitors by offering better and more innovative services etc. This was like the full time job for me shortly after I finished up with my MBA studies - today, it is "just one of them"

That's not all. I would have to be constantly in touch with CIC stakeholders at Navrongo (35km away), Bolga (right here) and Zebilla (about an hour away). Each presents a completely different story and scenario with regards challenges of growth. New issues keep coming up and I have to organise and also attend meetings frequently to keep the issues burning.

So, the weekends will have to see me sleeping loads then. Nope! I will have to travel down to Yendi (260km away) to take the engineers of the district assembly through Project Management (using OpenWorkBench) and spreadsheets (in Calc and Excel).

In the long run, I just burn up energy and dont really achieve much except for the happiness it brings - I feel so happy when I see some effort yielding some fruits.

Dont even bother to ask if I have a girlfriend and if I make enough time for her - There is a time for everything under the earth.

But one question I keep asking is; Will the world wind down to a halt if I died today? There will be nobody to do what I do right? No sah! It'll just continue to exist and continue to burst with life. That little candle that will extinguished with my life would be one candle off in a field that has billions of lit candles. Except that the soil will get more fertile around where I am buried.

So what's all the hussle for?