What defines you?
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Its that time of the year again! We are
running helter skelter,trying to 'catch up’, some are trying to at least
achieve something so the are not left out, other have completely given up.
Maybe because they did not see what they envisaged at the beginning of the year
come to pass. Other are busy apportioning blames: my family was not there for me,
God let me down, no one loves me...
It is indeed that time of the year when all
our fear of failure, worries about the future arise from within and is looking
at us in face saying... Look at your life and evaluate the progress you have
made!
When that happens, panick, doubt, complexes
set it! Oh dear what am I going to do to make things work or at least better?
I wonder how many of us find ourselves in
this situation year in year out??
After all the worrying which I must say
adds nothing but stress to the already bad situation, we settle for New Year
Resolutions!
I know it sounds soooo familiar, we all at
one point in time made New Year resolutions; we broke the very next day!
We all are on a quest for the best life has
to offer but what makes the difference between a truly successful person and
one who is struggling, is the way they go about it.
For a very long if not the most part of our
existence we have cleaved and held unto the belief that our performances in
life determines how much we get out of life or how successful we become!
A very wise man I know defined belief
systems as the awareness of the mind of itself, of its world, of the aspect
cognitive processing. It is a structure of believing built in our
consciousness. In other words it is what we are aware of at a personal level.
We have been taught by everyone and
everything around us that we must perform to make it to the top. I personally
have nothing against work. I am of the school of thought that believe a workman
is worthy of his wage, but contextually talking about Africa and the world at
large, I have never know a set of Hard workers like the Africans. We are at it
from dawn to dusk, many even die in the process leaving nothing to show for
30,40,50 years of labour...the average African Man by the age 40-45 is worn out
both from fatigue and stressful living. Maximum input=minimum output!
This is the group to which majority in the
world today belong. Hand to mouth generations.Talented, endowed, resourceful
individuals we can even cite but no legacy, nothing to leave as posterity for
the unborn generation
We find ourselves in an unending cycle and
like this wise man I know once said insanity is doing the same thing over and
over but expecting different results, we are gradually becoming the insane
generation!
We keep doing the same things, same methods,
same formulas that failed yesterday and we expect different results, some even
go as far as say it is faith, I beg to differ it is presumption because faith
has the object God as its focus while procrastination is faith in faith: the
object is usually what we can do and not who we depend on!
Which brings me to my question: what
defines you? Is it you ability, talents, performances, etc or is it faith in
Gods ability to use your ability to make you successful?
Self reliance has proven to be very
deceitful. Have you ever heard of this saying no man is an island? Well that is
very true but not in the way many will think.
Let me illustrate with this example I got
from this wise man I know.
When a manufacturer puts a product in the
market he usually accompanies it with a manual. Without which it will be
impossible to fully operate the product. In this manual he gives the guidelines
and modus operandi of the product, once you buy and follow the instructions given,
you can effectively us the product and get maximum output.
You do not need to think hard or labour or
go an extra mile, you do not even need to want to try to believe or hope it is
going to work! The moment you apply the instructions from the Manual, the
response is automatic. The product functions.
The same principle applies in the inverse!
You try to imagine and apply self knowledge not in line with the logic of the
manufacturer at the moment of manufacture; the outcome will be a disaster!
Self reliance, self dependence, self, self,
self has been the one problem we have had to face in our generations. The proof
that it is failing us is everywhere on tv; so called rich and successful people
dying from overdose, and other addictions, nations and governments out of
selfish ambitions put in place by a selected few, are at each other’s throats
and innocent victims are killed in their thousands, tribal, religious, ethnic
conflicts on the rise because of a selfish ambition one person inculcated in
others and it grew to a belief system!
Insanity is doing the same thing over and
over but expecting different results at each time!
Am tired of a world where selfishness is reigning,
tired to see an Africa full of potential but subjected to selfish motives and
goals, tired of seeing religious, ethnic conflicts ravage lives in Africa every
ten years!
We need a purposeful and identity conscious
generation.
A generation that accepts that like the
product, the have a manufacturer which has a manual and itinerary for their
lives and they are willing to apply the logic of the manufacturer put in his Manual,
irrespective of age,religion,race,sex,ethnicity etc
A generation that is honest enough to say
by ourselves we cannot find fulfillment, we need to cleave to the manufacturer.
At this period when people are doing a lot
of introspection and pondering over their lives and achievements, anticipation
the next phase, what will you say will define you: your performances or
participation in the manufacturer's finished operation for us?
The good news remains in the words of this
wise man i know “even though it is true you are not where you want to be, you are not at
least where you used to be”!
Am just thinking...
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