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“If you do the same thing the way you have been doing it and expect a change; you are definitely insane” – paraphrased from the quote of Albert Einstein

There was a leap in my heart when my wife told me on phone that she had dropped my daughter in school. Dammi has started school; wow I can’t believe it. The same leap rose from the bottom of my heart when my wify told me she was pregnant. My mind traveled to the future and I saw my self in Dammi’s undergraduate Graduation Ceremony taking pictures and smiling. I immediately reframed myself from such thinking because the future belongs to God and what Dammi would become is all in God’s hand. My duty is to train my child in the way of the Lord and lift her to God to direct her step.

I hardly can recall my first day in school but I know that school represents a new state in a man’s life. It simply means if you graduate from school, you seize to be the person you were before entering school. This means school becomes the transition between one stage to a higher stage. School involves quiz, test, assignments, and exams; it involves interaction with wide spectrums of culture, social issues, political whims and economic power. School is good but not always fun because it stretches you to think, it forces you to conform to certain standard and it inculcates in you consciously, subconsciously or unconsciously. No one is too old to go to school because school is not a physical building nor is it formal setting where you wear uniform and being led by a physical teacher with cane in one hand and chalk in the other. School is school and all the aforementioned elements in it.

I remember entering the school of online network marketing April, this year; I actually stumbled into it. A friend called and asked me to join; I remember that day not like the first day in an “A, B, C; 1, 2, 3” school like the one Dammi just registered for. Quite a different feeling (If I remembered my first feeling). I was surrounded with relatives, friends and colleagues who were into one wonder bank or the other urging me to join and showing me how much I was missing. I used to question myself concerning my strong resolve of not participating in any of these Wonder Bank. I believed in faith; I believed in risk and I also believe that where there is no sacrifice, there is no true evolving. I saw my colleagues give a sigh of relief whenever Nospetco drops money in their account: I wanted to be part of the experience; I wanted to dare and conquer; I wanted to join something that would make my heart race with expectation but there was always a tiny voice that refrained me. Reading comments on my own Nospetco thread did not help matters; WS just paid me 3 million; TL just paid me 5 million; I collect 400K from Nospetco every month; can you imagine how much I have in it?

I was tempted but endured it until I was introduced to my ideal risk; online MLM. I joined partly because of the person that introduced it and mainly because I could learn from it and track my positions. I joined online MLM with all gusto knowing that it would involve its risk. My first write-up on online MLM was coup-is coup expatiating on the risk of joining “get-rich-quick” scheme and defining the experience as a coup d’etal experience. The first mail I sent to the 8 people I requested for had the caveat on the first sentence “This is a risky business; you can lose your money”. Ironically none us lost our money but have gained 6K + dollars.

I have failed some courses in online MLM but have passed with an A+ on some of the other courses including Club Freedom, Getaway and Diamond Cash. I have graduated from it and learnt a lot from it. A friend called me the other day and proposes that I give 25% of the money made in this scheme back to it but I asked her to do the same from the proceeds she made in the Wonder Banks; there and then our discussion came to a block.

I have explored the option of giving back and know it’s a dead end unless I can gather everybody that have cycled out to a meeting where we can strategize the best way to make our giving back effective. I went into this online MLM not knowing if the boards would hang or be as slow as it has become in the past week but this was the risk (though unforeseen) I was ready to bear. Just like every school, I have learnt my lessons as I envisioned in my first write-up of coup-is-coup – if I lose my money, I would have learnt from it. I am not afraid of losing my money as long as I gain a learning virtue; this was the singular act that refrain me from Wonder Banks; there was no learning virtue.

I would like people to treat others the way they would be treated and not come up with solutions that they themselves can never undertake. I have put more than 4K dollars back in CF to aid some down lines but it has not been too effective. This is more than the 25% proposed; I love solutions after a complaint and I am interested in solutions because that is the only way we can move forward. I have graduated in the school of online MLM though with limited experience and I am ready to learn and go back to school just as my daughter goes to school today to learn ABC. I am re-inventing this site with a new theme and new functionality. I am going back to school and hope to graduate with a new “ME”. Dipo Tepede.POeT comes out with a new theme and new word. My co-blogger Funmilayo is on the train with me and together with the Holy Spirit; we would improve your lives through thought provoking words…………………..