As You Like It! When we were young we would sneak away from our township home, cross the adjoining bushes and go to the richer low density leafy suburbs. We would call these, emayandini. There were huge yards there compared to our squalid high density dwellings. We would snoop into bins and pick some discarded toys. These were diamond finds. It never crossed our minds then that good things could be ours too. That we could be comfortable with excellence and high standards. Whatever was nice was supposed to be for whites, amakiwa. I realize now how we grew up in a system that trained us to think, behave and expect second, or third class everywhere we went. It no longer needs to be so. Life is for those who do not die while they are living. Those who do not expect mud when there are open skies and bountiful heavens. To live in the margins of life and be an irrelevant, fearful and timid player is not the way to play the game of life. You can be whatever you dare to be. Rebel against mediocrity. Change your expectations. Claim your portion in life because you are not a second class citizen. Life is meant to be lived not died. Why live in the shadows when there is so much sunshine? Steve Jobs in PBS documentary interview in 1994 once said: When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is - everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. Once you wake to the potential that you have you are awake and you can dance with life. You can go wherever you dare. You can be whatever you dream. You can have whatever you desire. Go ahead, give yourself permission to dream and to live at the highest level. You can do more and be more. The limitations that you have are self-inflicted. The possibilities are endless and the opportunities are everywhere where imagination can go and faith can reach! Unleash your greatness!
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 06:34:41 +0000
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