THE FRUIT TREE MAGAZINE
Life is increasingly becoming more difficult for most Nigerians. As our economy depreciates, cost of living has become an overwhelming challenge for most. Each day is now synonymous with complaints and frustrations, people are clueless and without answers. It is a terrible thing waking up every morning without a direction or purpose. This frame of mind is not the type born out of laziness but a symptom characterized with a mind-set that is slowly and gradually giving up on hope.
“Wikipedia defines Hope as an optimistic attitude of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes related to events and circumstances in one's life or the world at large”. The loss of hope leads to the eventual death of self, the urge to press on and the drive to achieve.
Our quest for success rides largely on our interpretations of hope and how we choose to appropriate it. Hope fuels our passions, motivations and inspirations. It keeps our burning desire flaming even in the midst of challenges and even when everything seems overwhelming.
Hope must be preserved even if everything else dies.
We must constantly be able to reassure ourselves that the adverse situations will change, that good will come and that all our positive efforts will be rewarded at the end. But to do so, we must be inspired always by feeding our minds with positive experiences - true and genuine experiences that can be attributed to our situations, one we can rationalized as testaments to our power to overcome all.
The Fruit Tree Magazine (FTM) was created as a conduit to project hope and channel strength through inspiration. It was from a realization that our well-being matters and there’s a potency in shared individual experience, especially when they are positive and transformational. Today and all around us, we see a large number of people frustrated, disgruntled and uninspired. We may probably be able to relate with their situations but there actions or reactions will never translate into productivity for themselves, the companies they work for, the people around them and the nation as a whole.
As a magazine, we may not be able to change our economy or the prevailing situations that surround us as a nation but we can endeavour to make a difference by inspiring and motivating people by sustaining their hope, refuelling their passions and encouraging the strength to persevere. We are doing this by using true to life narrations, illustrated by people who have positively changed their situations and made a success of their lives.
Our stories will attempt to re-emphasize the value of determination, focus and hard work, we will do this by sharing the various travails in the lives of people who share our vision. This includes sharing their hidden struggles and visible successes with the anticipation that it may encourage people to look within themselves to see that they are their own obstacles.
Our experiences in life puts us all in an advantaged position to positively strengthen each other and work together towards a common good. So, let’s endeavour to inspire someone every day with the way we live. We’ll be doing so for nobody else but ourselves.
Ellis Mbeku
Editor-In-Chief
FRUIT TREE MAGAZINE
The Fruit Tree Magazine (FTM) is a non-profit initiative created to project hope through inspirational storytelling. The idea emerged from a realisation that the well-being and shared life experience of each individual matters, especially when these experiences are positive, inspiring and transformative.As a magazine, we may not be able to change life's prevailing situations in but we can make a difference by positively inspiring and motivating people with the success stories of others. This will in turn sustain their hopes, refuel their passions and encourage the strength to persevere.