IT DOES NOT MATTER

    After working all night on a project, which ought to be submitted the next day, Mr. Peter, an architect, went to show his wife the project he’s been working on. Flipping through the pages of the work in amazement of such excellent work that can be produced in one night of a man’s life, she responded with a lovely grin on her face assuring her husband that the work is awesome, then she spotted little, minute, tiny ALMOST negligible error, hurriedly, she called her husband’s attention to the error, and then he goes “don’t worry about that, it doesn’t matter”

Getting to the office, Mr. Peter submitted the project and his boss was really pleased with the packaging and smooth presentation. His boss then pointed him to a little error, which was the exact thing his wife pointed him out to, and then he replied again “sir it doesn’t matter.”

What was the mistake you wonder, it was an omission of a 0.001mm space on the blueprint design of a building, seemingly negligible error, but one thing that was forgotten was that the scale of the drawing would have to be enlarged a great deal during construction, and after the magnification, that little change will surely be very visible for all to see. This actually happened during the construction of the building Mr. Peter designed and the project, which had already begun, could not be completed due to a simple “it does not matter” error.

Whatsoever is worth doing is worth doing well, those things that a have been said not to matter are the ones that often have the “difference” effect, what others say don’t matter can be that thing that will make you matter to your world, the moment things, no matter how little, begin not to matter, the moment we begin not to matter.

Changes do not start with the biggest thing, and neither does life, there is a growing and building stage that shapes up what comes out at the end. The simple, seemingly little stuff, does matter. 

THOMAS MAKINWA

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