Don’t Waste The Opportunity
Òwe Yorùbá (Yorùbá Proverb)
O wà ní ìfọnná, o kò fọnná; o wà ní ìfọnsu, o kò fọn isu; o wà ní ìfọnná fon isu, o ko fonna fon isu wa sile
Translation
You are at the site of taking coals of fire, you were unable to take a coal of fire; you are at the place where you could take tubers of yam, you cannot take a tuber of yam; you are at the place where you can take both, take a tuber of yam and a coal of fire but you were unable to take any of it home.
Application
This is a proverb of rebuke. A person would be rebuked when she or he could not do what she or he has been opportune to do, but such a person is now looking unto people for assistance on what he or she has the opportunity and privilege of attaining or achieving then. In some instances, such people would even be threatening those people he or she is asking of assistance from them that they do not want to assist but forgetting that he was the one who wasted his own opportunity. So, people will tell him that he has no right to blame those who did not help him because he has wasted his own opportunity when it presented itself to him.
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