AMONG NEYMAR, YOU AND BILL GATES - DON'T BE UNFORTUNATE!

The Brazilian man has made headlines and has been the face and inspiration behind so many jokes and memes all over the net in the past few weeks, that even someone who has never seen 5 minutes of a football match now knows who Neymar is.
Jokes have been made about how people would rather teach their kids how to play football than send them to school - well, I presume they are just jokes, as most people that made those statements and similar, are themselves educated to a reasonable extent, and aren't ashamed about it.
Many writers have written and people have aired their opinions about the deal and some still find it difficult to digest how a man would worth €222M and earn over €500K weekly. Well, a man has a talent, a man developed it, a man worked hard, and now, a man is very rich and famous.
I was not going to be like the ones who took their pens and wrote about the whole Neymar thing so as to 'blow' but when I read  "BETWEEN NEYMAR AND BILL GATES - DON'T BE DECIEVED", I  knew at that moment that I had to write something on the whole issue.
Every man is entitled to his opinion, but when you write and publish, you know there is power in what you have written and no matter how deep/shallow or bad/good your writing is, some people would always accept it, regardless of it being sensible or not.
So, for everyone who has been manipulated into thinking being Neymar or wanting to be like Neymar is "being deceived", this piece is written so that you'd save yourself from being unfortunate!
I don't know what brought about the comparison between Neymar and Bill Gates but I believe it's necessary this is treated. It is obvious both are success in their fields and as people are different, so also their ways of being successful. Of course, Neymar isn't as rich as Bill Gates, but the question is if Neymar were to have lived like Bill Gates, would he have made it this far, would he have succeeded and would he even have made it like this Neymar that he is right now?
I think the writer of that piece her/himself needs orientation on what education is. Centralising education on just schooling is not a very wise thing to do, as education surpasses just going for lectures and writing exams at the end of the semester. Neymar himself needed 'education' before he got to where he got to. Formal or not formal, education is education.
Don't be unfortunate, 'education'(as used by the writer) is not the way! If education were to be the way, then why did Bill Gates go on a 'leave of absence' when everything that was the way, was taught in Havard? If education is the way, why do we have graduates who don't even live nowhere near a life they had pictured or would want for themselves?
I'm not writing this to useless formal education as I'm a student myself, but what needs to be said should be said!
Football people, I'm not saying football is the way, so, you people, you better not be unfortunate too!
Now, you want to know what I think is the way? Okay, YOU are the way!
People are different, we have different natures, different opportunities and different things we're good at and if we try to live our lives against what we are, we end up being unfortunate!
If you have the talent, opportunity and skills like Neymar, you're struggling academically (not everyone can be brilliant) and you keep pushing away the opportunities to go for night classes you wouldn't gain from; wake up, don't be unfortunate!
If you are a smart kid who assimilates and grabs fast and you see yourself to be a tech guru, but you can't even play goat faeces not to talk of football, but you want to wear singlet and trousers to sign a multi million Euros deal so you could be like Neymar, my brother, don't be unfortunate!
You are the way, you are the solution. No matter what you do, you can be very successful at it; just be extraordinary. PSG didn't sign a bench warmer, they signed an outstanding footballer. Bill Gates was unlike most students, he was innovative, extraordinary, observative, hardworking and creative before he got to where he is today.
You have to be more than normal to be unlike others. You can't be doing things the same way they do it and expect to be different. And no matter what you do, you have no limit.
And mind you, Mathieu Flamini(a footballer) kept his business venture a secret, but a biochemical company he founded along with his partner
Granata, GF Biochemicals seem to have found an
alternative fuel source to Petrol. Flamini’s company is the
only company which produces industrial-level standards of
the wood fuel and his value could soon rise up to an
unbelievable $20 billion making him one of the richest
people in the world.
Flamini = footballer + business man. Goals man, goals!

Dear reader, it's not just about Neymar or Bill Gates, it is about you!
Go out there and break records too. Make the Internet shake because of you, go beyond limits, live your dreams, be wise and please, don't be unfortunate!
People have done things we didn't think could be done, you can do things we've  never thought would be done too. So, take that step today and everyone would be proud of you!

Oya, my people, let us prevent people from being unfortunate and share this writeup ASAP.

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