Do you want to be like a mate? Do you want to take one as your role model? NO? Never?? Not in a million years??? That might change after you read this. Please proceed.
The mate profession may just be the most looked-down-upon one in Ghana. People just don’t respect mates. Many a time if your five pesewa coin falls to the ground you might not want to pick it up. But when the driver’s mate wants to keep that change, oh it’s a whole different story. Even women are willing to come to blows, just to wrestle five pesewas from a mate. And my question is,
“What did the poor mate do?”
I mean how do we not realize that theirs is one of the most stressful jobs in the country? I observed a number of things about these guys, and I realized if I could take these seven lessons and make them a part of my everyday life, nothing could pull me back. Let’s go through them, they’ll work for you too.