Time is too precious to be wasted.
We took a flight from Holland to the USA. We sat in first class. We were six.
President George (H. W) Bush grout out his computer, the small one out of his brief case, note pads and different things and began work.
I was finishing my book ‘Faith to change your world’ and after a while, I said ‘Good Afternoon President’. He said ‘Hello Archbishop Idahosa’. I said ‘you don’t know me, He said ‘I know you’, you attended presidential breakfast twice with Ronald Reagan and I was vice president and if you think I don’t know you, I was the Head of CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).
He said ‘besides that, if you were not a genuine man, the airline will not let you sit near me’.
It gave me food for thought. ‘If you were not a genuine man, the airline will not let you sit near me’. And this man worked from Amsterdam to Houston – 11 hours. He never wincked his eyes and every time I corrected my book and read and corrected and I wanted to sleep and I looked at his side, he is still busy, I open my eyes.
What is this man looking for in life? Nothing!
His son is a Governor, he is a former president on over $200,000 a year (pension). Free CIA walking with him, free body guard, free FBI (federal bureau of investigation) following him, free everything yet he is busy.
So I asked him, I said ‘why are you not going to sleep?’ He said, ‘Life is too precious to be thrown away’.
I come to realise from Bishop Idahosa’s encounter with the president that,
1. Your integrity and character will speak for you
2. Never stop working. Keep working hard until you become your best. (Even at that you need to keep working to remain the best)
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