*STORMS IS THE WORD *
While
thinking and pondering in my subconscious mind about the natural occurrence and
rules of life, two things confused me, NO! Three things I couldn’t understand;
the true worth of living a dignified life, the certainty of having a bright
undisrupted future and the trying moment of a man. While pondering over these
issues, I could only draw conclusion on the last one, coming to accept it as a
natural occurrence.
In my
attempt to seek further realities prior to this issue, I came to realize the
need for gold to pass several purifying process before coming out as one of the
most glaring stone ever known. No man is permitted to pass through this world
without been subjected to the perils and tumor of this earth, but one thing
makes the difference, it is a function of the ability to stand, fight and
overcome great obstacles facing the course of one’s life maybe as a result of
fighting for dignity, upholding the dignity of a nation or trying to break
abnormal protocols to stand out from the crowd as a glaring hero. Then who is a
hero? A hero is one who has fought storms and waves and has been being
commissioned and given a ship to head upon, he is the sole captain of that ship
just as Neilson Mandela is the father of apartheid.
Nevertheless,
in the history of man, some are born great while some achieved greatness but
posit it to say that those that weren’t born great but achieve greatness in life has really fought the storms of life to
be outstanding their days. To every man, there is a unique mission, if and only
if they can break the siege of ignorance and pursue diligence with a purposeful
heart, every man would have been celebrated a HERO.
Furthermore,
take a break to watch the life of great investors of ideas and scientific
knowledge, men I so much respected, though some in blessed memories, men like
Isaac Newton, many saw the apple fall but only Isaac Newton dare to ask WHY? This
brought about the laws of motion, in which I and you manipulate values to get
result. Men like the “RIGHT BROTHERS” who built the airplane despite several
failures and criticism they encountered in the course of their research but
that “something more” they added to keep the plane from flying without falling,
made them outstanding from others who have attempted building an airplane.
Great author and positive thinker like Napoleon Hill, who exposed the powers of
carefully sitting for ideas. Read the life history of people like Thomas Edison
(inventor of neon bulb), Michael Faraday (inventor of electricity) and
alexander graham bell (invented the telephone) etc. Bringing it home, back here
in Africa, men like Neilson Mandela, Chinua Achebe, Chika Obi and the host of
others that made great outstanding records before their demise. They didn’t make
it to the top because their way was a smooth path, infact, the reality of it is
that, they were among those most tormented by the waves of life, but their
persistent and determined minds broke grounds for them.
Its quiet appalling
that in this days, instead of having records of celebrated heroes, it is
celebrated criminals who siphon the
country’s treasury without been punished, public office holders claiming to be
above the law using the immunity clause syndrome as a prove, so much corruption
in public office. Standard of education collapsing every day as a result of
high quest for paper certificate, rather than the acquired skills and
competency. So much rot in the
atmosphere, but I so much believe life is a choice, and every man has a right to
define his path, the ball is in your court. Once again, WHAT WILL POSTERITY
REMEMBER YOU FOR?
From the
acts of been Noble, am still *UNEKE JOHNCHINS*
November 2014
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