"To write a great book, you must first become the book." - Naval Ravikant
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Read your Bible
Pray every day if you want to grow!
The lines above were the bedrock of how I was made. The foundation of a beautiful life is when you believe in a thing and hold on dear to them. Life consists of up's and down, but the down is where you get to find your way up. To some life is a rosy isle walk to stardom, but to many, it is a long walk to freedom, just in the case of Nelson Mandela, and as such, growing in Africa, is much way talked to be a zone for the survival of the fittest, maybe the winner takes it all.
In the African forest, an antelope wakes up to run the fastest so as not to be the prey of the hungry Lion, the lion stretches its body to ensure he use its claws to pick the outpaced Antelope, everyone wants to survive, then as a child, you must outgrow your weakness to be the best you can be, better put to outrun the fastest lions out there in form of the rich class, or privileged children when you are not brought up with the same fingers as they.
What do you do, when you know hopes are on you, when you know many depends on your leadership, mentorship and voice to make a headway, while you haven't find yourself rooted in the murky waters of politics, life, riches and the walk to managerial positions, the best you can do is to embrace the attitude of the stones, you must spark the fire to make warm. Once such scene, was when a follower of mine was contesting for a council election in the Student union, all hopes was dashed because there was this opponent who everyone see as rich and has the backing of the school "big boyz", challenge to my morrows I became, I had to beat myself, I said to him one day, 'you will win' he said how, I told him just believe, then the game began. Yes, lo and behold, he won to his surprise, he reaffirmed his loyalty upon seeing the passion and work I put in for him.
While growing in the shores of the village, I somewhat met the act and art of making a fire with stones, the passion put in, the technology reached, the ideas placed in between just to form a fire, can be best put, the good old days, indeed Africa is the cradle of civilization. Then, I learnt 'dreams when persistent are capable of turning into realities', just like when two comes together they make heat, and if sustained becomes a seed, same as stones when rubbed against another makes a fire. I am a man who believes in Teamwork, it has helped me over the years, this to me is the beginning of the spark.
No one grow without a story, at a tender age, I learnt being brave is more important than been liked, just like T.E Lawrence put it, "all men dream but not equally, those who dream in the dark recesses of the night awake in the day and find all was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dreams with open eyes and make it possible." I long choose to be a dreamer by day, and each step is a dream coming true.
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Have you ever been told, "you are the enemy of yourself"? This was the last point I needed to hit the stone the more to make the biggest fire! It is funny in the new world how people felt they know the road to your destiny, and only they can make a headway for you. The making of a flint is just as the making of a steel, it has to be pressed, fired, blasted, and refined, not until then a good steel is not produce.
As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. - President Abraham Lincoln
There are days, I fall, there are days I look back and say to myself that was a very big mistake, there were moments I never thought I could pass through, or times I never knew I could survive, but it all turns out today to be a memory, they are now a bygone like a masquerade throws away his cloth after the dance at the Market square.
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So, each steps I took was a refining moment, they become a Midas touch, who ever thought this time can come, I have been through a lot, and a lot have gone through me, the position remains; to make a fire you got to crush the stone and make a spark, he that will eat the egg in the rocks must not look at the shape of its axe mouth, as well as he that must go into the belly of the sharks must not be afraid to sail on waters.
The making of a flint is the making of men, the inner circle is the place of making, no one has two heads, all birds are created equal, except the ones who climb on heaps, what I did was to redesign my life to the extent that the actions that matter most are also the actions that are easiest to do, because as humans we are motivated to do what is easy, I chose the hard way, and try make it an easy path. Have I reached utopia, No, but this is the making of a flint - the journey continues.
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