When The Meat Is Too Tough To Chew

If you're a Nigerian (and you live in Lagos esp) , you've probably heard or eaten the meat called Isho which is basically the muscle(sinew) of cows cut into chewable pieces. Now, this is the toughest kind of meat in the history of edible flesh, it tastes really nice but you're likely to chew it for 4 hours nonstop without making any dent in it. Frankly, most times, it feels like punishment. Somebody might say, why not spit it out or throw it away (ha!!!) but that's where the elusiveness and interest in the Isho lies, you want to conquer the Isho and show it who's the boss (I mostly swallow mine, I no get that kine strength).
Do you know a lot of people are like the Isho? They are sweet but tough, you want to have them but you can't handle them, sometimes, you actually get them (yaaay!) but then you realise, they are not really yours (bummer!).
These group of people are sinews, they are stretchable where others are just plain and immovable. So, they survive situations others can't. They go through the fire of life and still retain their personality, for you see, situations don't change them. They are the kind of people you'll see after 10yrs and say, " Nawao, you never change". These people are the constant in life, the ones who don't break and yes, they are ones who finally, at the end of the day make all the difference in the world.
People find it hard to understand them, so they are dubbed complicated, irascible, difficult and all what not. At some point, people will resent them for making headway or refusing to conform but never mind, they don't mind these things.
Many people are like this, I meet them everywhere I go : I see it in a friend of mine who has refused to shave her eyebrows till date (carve lol), it sounds silly but it takes character to refuse something which every woman in the universe is doing.
I see it in another friend, who when she was left orphaned at 16, did the needful and got a job, paid her way through the university while working and today continues her education and is one of the richest girl I know under the age of 30( who has never had a boyfriend, I must add).
Are there times in life, when you feel like give up but you don't, when it seems like it's just you all alone in the big bad world but you keep pushing anyway, when you're so tired, your bones quake but you stand anyway.... then my d

arling, I am happy to tell you, "Congratulations, you're not just ordinary beef, You're Isho".
Of course it easy to depend on people who your life, but it takes hard work to continually pick yourself up whenever life and the society deals you a hard blow.
As someone like this, the only way to make it to your great finish is to remain true to yourself and next time, when someone is quick to call you names and point out how you're so different, tell them what I always say,
              "But darling, I am not an ordinary beef, I am the sinew"
Understand that even when the meat is too tough to chew, we swallow it........