‘and those who were seen dancing were
thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music” Neitzesche
Somebody asked me why do I write? It does not make me any
money and certainly at this point and time I have a very small audience. I have
also been told I should diversify and write about more staff. I
write so as to empty myself. I write because when am writing I connect with my
innermost part, and I loose myself into the world of creating. Then my heart
and mind unite, the mind as a servant of the heart. These things I write are
part of sharing my beingness.I write because I want the world to know my truth.
My truth is I dream of a world where every human being strives to bring out the
best they can be. Where we allow our children to discover themselves without
our influence. Where we accept that children are born whole and complete, that
they already have a purpose that have nothing to do with our thoughts and
imagination. Most important I write
because I enjoy it.
Off late I find myself thinking a lot about individuality,
what it means and where it takes us, as human beings. If I may try and go back
in time, our history as humanity is rich with individuals who in one way or the
other have played a role in steering us to our current status as human beings.
The power, I have come to realize and greatly appreciate is not and has never
been in groups. Power has always been in individuals. Even groups are started by
one individual who invites other people of the same interests to join the
group. One individual joins with another to form a group that may become a
political party, a movement or remain just a group. I will name some
individuals right off my head and I would like to invite you to think of what
your opinion is and how you think they have affected humanity and contributed
to our current status as the human race. Madam Curie, Barack Obama, Gadafi, Nelson
Madera, Robert Mugabe, Mother Teresa, Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gadhi,Osama bin Laden,
Wangari Mathai, Martin Luther King, Michael Jackson, Merlyn Monroe, Albert
Einstein, Carl Gustav Jung,Sadam Hussein, Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs,Gautam Buddha
.I could list a whole page but I will stop there and you can create your own
list.
Each of the individual above had a dream, strong thoughts,
opinions and theories. At the time some those theories were unacceptable and outrageous.
To them thou it did not matter whether the dream and theories were good or bad.
They were willing to find out their own way. Even most important they wanted
their dreams to come true. They were men and women of great character,
charismatic and great weaknesses too some of which we may know and some well
hidden. They lived life and believed in what they were as human beings such
that they created movements or movements formed around them. Some however were
lone rangers and died fighting for what they believed. Some are dead and some
are alive. Some their dreams came true during their time and others planted a
seed that has been carried for generations only to bear fruits much later. Some
paid sweat and blood for daring to be unconventional, for refusing to go with
the crowd. Some paid with their lives and others made the rest of the world
pay. Madam Curie was killed by her work, it would benefit the rest of humanity
but she died alone. Adolf Hitler caused loss in great levels, pain and loss of
life. Just because he had a dream and ideals that may have been madness and
psychological sickness but they were his dream and he did everything in his
power to bring them to life. Wangari Maathai fought for forests, she fought for
something that could never belong to her. She was jailed, beaten up but she
fought on. If you think about it hers must have seemed a totally ridiculous
ambition at the time. Few people understood. Others not mentioned here, some
whom we may never learn of suffered too for example women who died during the
witch hunt not because they were or were not witches but because people did not
even understand.
For these people to discover these passions they must have
dug into their depths. They must have accepted the feelings that came from
within them. Some may have been thought to be mad by their families and peer,
some may have been rejected. Albert Einstein did not learn how to talk until he
was four, he could not learn to tie His shoes and was way behind his classmates
in learning to read. His teachers described him as mentally slow, unsociable
and a dreamer. Although he eventually made it through college, he failed the
entrance level exam for college. He is thought by some to have had Asperger symptoms,
a form of autism. Despite all this Einstein became a theoretical physicist who
came up with astounding scientific discoveries and theories. There is a man in
history called Copernicus who strongly supported the theory that the sun was
the center of the solar system. This was widely disputed and largely ignored especially
by the church. He wrote to the pope of the day trying to seek support but to no
avail.
The single reason I decided to dedicate this post today to
these individuals is because I believe in the power of individuals. I believe
true power to transform this world, nations, families, and friends lies not in
groups but with individuals. I do not know of any individual who is perfect or
had it smooth all the way. We cannot discover what power lies within unless we
let ourselves be as human as can be. By allowing our true selves to live.
Whether beautiful or ugly. All of us has some ugly truth, unfortunately we cannot
see the stars during the day or the moon. Only in darkness do we see the stars.
We cannot appreciate daylight if we cannot appreciate darkness. We cannot
appreciate the rains if we do not experience the dry season or as some people
would say summer and winter. People like
Hitler might have existed for us to see meaning in what people like mother
Teresa did. The aim is not to go down the books of history, the purpose is when
is all said and done you did it your way, you lived. You may not have reached
the point of being able to define success in your own terms. I am still putting
the terms together for myself and if you have put down your own terms well and good.
Start by wondering what is it you would be willing to die for here and now. It
does not matter whether you have no idea, whether your mind comes blank, put
the thought in your head. Plant it, keep it there, and think about it. Start
the journey into rediscovering yourself. Sing your own song no matter how off key. It
is time to stop living life in other people’s terms but our own, truth born
from our depth.
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