JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE

In our determination to succeed in life, many things are usually said and perceived to be wrong with us at that very particular period in our life. It has to be so unless you don’t want to progress beyond your present stages in life, besides it is an inborn in every humans even the animals to either experience or make others feel somewhat sick in their bids to progress in life.
When I say this, my mind went straight to the mixed feelings that mothers usually have all the way from conception down to the delivery of their babies. As you know, it is a mixed blessing that comes with varied forms of feelings, sometimes happy, moody, excited, pains, and so on until that last momentary one that eventually gives way to the bundle of joys, the delivery of her baby.  And so it goes with each and every other achievement in life, there are things to be disposed of in place of the desired ones even though that it doesn’t enjoy the complete nods of everyone at the initial stage, but that is just the way it is.
   To survive in life and fulfill your heart desires, you have to surmount many obstacles to get what you want. To start with, you have to first of all, overcome the greatest enemy of them all, which is your very self! Once that is cleared, this is how –LOUIS XIV, put it. ‘There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself’. Stewart Johnson added to that by saying “Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves and break the records that we set against ourselves” Hmm! That sounds funny because it’s like the major battles we fight is usually against our own very selves and not others as it appears to be. So whenever we muster up boldness to conquer our self and push it towards the right directions to that which our hearts yearns for, every other obstacle takes smaller shapes in our eyes and is easily overcome. Having come to see that no man is completely lazy and visionless in life, it makes solid sense therefore to aspire for that which has the capacities of bringing out the best in us as long as what we are inclined towards is not bad.
   We all have dreams to achieve but one thing about it is that it differs from one person to the other and as such, we are obligated to work towards achieving of our dreams irrespective of how or what others may feel about our own dreams and how we go about bringing it to reality. One thing that many people don’t know or doesn’t care enough to recognize is that it is called DREAM. Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping and even while fully wake. (Not day-dreaming).  A dream is usually an individual’s experience at a time and does not involve any third party during the process but only calls for supporters and some like minds to bring it to fruitions. Sometimes a person’s dream may involve following some uncommon parts to have it achieved but for the fact that the parts to it looks uncommon, perhaps to the person’s environments or his circle of friends, he is bound to face a whole lots of discriminations and side talks on his way towards the realization of his dreams which may not be bad in any way but simply for the parts leading to it. So to have your dreams brought to life, you should be ready to endure that perceived temporary inevitable madness by some people around you. For sure! You would be taken for a mad man even though it is temporary madness, just like the momentary mad feelings of a woman giving birth to baby.
   Take for instance, a musician shooting a video for his upcoming album, how do you normally feel when you see him dancing on the streets, on the main roads, by the roadsides, acting and behaving funny without any sound being played to your hearing as the onlookers or passersby? In conclusion, this man must be mad. ‘How could a sane person be behaving like this on the public views? But that’s just your own conclusions and that changes nothing for him but for you who would later hear the sound of that tract when it is released and dip hand into your pocket to buy it because you love the music which happened to be the end product of that madness you saw sometimes back. Consequently, either knowingly or not, you too would be dancing to that same madness because he did not allow your personal views of his dreams to alter his determinations to succeed in life. Basically, so many dreams in life are usually greeted with mixed feelings but the determined minds has always surmounted the initial apprehensions and come out with better results to make things easier even for the doubting Thomas. The simple truth here is just as Charles Kettering puts it when he said, “No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm”. Yes, if we care enough to know that the breakfast of champions is not cereal but obstacles, we would then embrace up for a champion’s like life and know that whatever great fortunes they enjoy never come by mere wishing and doing nothing about their dreams.
 We all have dreams but not all of us care enough to do something about their dreams and that’s too bad. Mere wishes can only add more wish and that never change a thing. Wishful thinking is good but let it be concrete enough to warrant all that you invest into it. Be wise enough to differentiate between waiting and outright wasting of time. Dreams always remain a dream until it is acted upon and it is always best to do that on time to avoid sleeping unnecessarily long dreaming and lying on the bed aimlessly for too long. That equals to pure waste of time which serves no one right. It is a thing of joy to aspire for and reach out for our heart desires and make it a reality. Make your dreams comes alive by associating with the right types of people who will encourage you and help you in both ways. Read good books to discover yourself and inspire you to reach out for the best in any chosen field of Endeavour.  Free people of blames in all the happenings in your life and get clearer views to navigate freely in the rough roads of life.      
     If we take time to follow through, we would discover that more good things await us in life than we had ever imagined while playing small and living a mediocre life. Open your eyes and get bigger and brighter views of life and how it is to be lived.