All of life’s good and ugly experiences are like
tiny sand particles that eventually accumulate into a well built castle. At the
end, it would be evidently clear that all that ever happened along life’s trip,
including some of the inadvertent ugly occurrences that naturally wouldn’t have
gotten a space in our to-do-list, was needed for the actualization of our
utmost dream. Some of this unpleasant experiences will be responsible for refining,
some of the failures will be the reason to return to the drawing board to
re-strategize and consult with deeper wisdom, hence, discovering more ways of
how to do things, and in some other cases, how not to.
It is at such times that we are forced to dig
deeper, try harder, and also discover gift we never knew we possessed. It’s at
such times that our eyes of understanding are opened to the limitless streams
of opportunities that lie fallow all around seeking to be potentiated.
Moreover, God hides things by putting them all around us. The little and minor
achievement here and there would be a pointer that gold lies somewhere ahead.
The sum total of all we pass through is the building block to our break through
including the unpleasant experiences, most especially if you don’t relent and
then throw in the towel. See how Steve Jobs explained it in his ever fresh and
alive commencement speech in Stanford University “It was awful tasting
medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the
head with a brick. Don’t lose faith”.
Just as there are certain things that are beyond
man’s ability and control. In like ways, there are numerous things that man is
saddled with the sole responsibility to manage and tactically perfect how to control,
such that those things we can’t control can eventually work for our benefits.
For instance, a farmer has no ability to control
the weather. He can only predict when the rains will come. Yet he can’t
ascertain, no matter how hard he tries! Not in present days of global climate
change. But a wise farmer must make him himself available during the planting
seasons, he’s got to be committed to that, else, the only thing he would have
to harvest when others are harvesting will be the best of nothing.
Just like we can’t manage time in the real sense
of it, but we have all it takes to ensure that we manage our daily plans so as
to ensure that time brings the result we desire. Consequently, any forceful or
dogged intension to control things that are absolutely beyond ones power is to
give oneself freely to frustration.
It’s abundantly clear that life is all about
chances and uncertainty, therefore the most rewarding thing is to follow ones
heart and inner instinct. The decision to follow ones inner craving doesn’t
necessarily have to be approved by others as we most times feel. The most
important things is to check if there’s a very positive feeling about what
you’re doing. The love of what you’re doing is what gives the push to carry on when
it’s not out-rightly clear what kind of result it would yield.
It’s of great importance that you trust that the
series of past and present events will somehow, someday, connect in your
future. Everyone trusts in something! But it is of great advantage that you
trust in yourself, your gut and your inner ability and stuffs that your heart
describes as meaningful. The study of weather makes it clear that to make
weather forecast or prediction, the previous weather data of years back would
be a major prerequisite. Hence, it is worth noting that despite life has a fair
share of uncertainty, yet, to a considerable extend, things don’t just happen.
If we take time to check, we would realize that things have a way of
connecting.
Life is short, so in that regards, you will agree
that it’s absolutely pointless to waste life living on the results of other
people’s thoughts and opinion. It’s a waste. A colossal waste! Finding ones
voice is a major task that requires so much discoveries that must be done. To
avoid the noise of the crowd burying ones inner voice will require a million
watt size of courage.
Courage is needed to follow your heart and
intuition. Courage is needed to question conventional wisdom, therefore putting
their validity to test. To achieve goals that will help others and make a
difference in our world, so much courage must be mustered. Courage and more
courage would be needed because we would unavoidably, be faced with despair.
Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre are of the opinion that courage isn’t the
absence of despair, that courage is the capacity to move ahead in spite of
despair. Courage is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all
other personal values. What is the essence of interest combined with passion
without courage? See, with courage commitment is easier. People attain worth
and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make day by day. Taking
decisions require courage. It’s also been discovered that courageous people
take more decisions than others, and they are better for it. Courage is the
crystal clear indication that something is far more important than fear.
Many great achievers were not born with the
greatness that they suddenly display. While they were busy preparing for the
unknown task ahead, by trying their hands on many things and making errors
repeatedly, unfortunately, no one saw them. If truly the end must count, it
simply implies that each day must count, the decisions and actions of today
must count, therefore, at the end the sum total of everything will count.
As the remaining days in 2011 gradually folds
away, it is without doubt that the remaining hours too will count because
without them the heavily pregnant 2012 will remain in the future.
Happy holiday!
