WHAT SHOULD WE STRIVE TO ACHIEVE? In between a chit chat, someone posed this question to me. “Where on earth lay the most precious treasures that are untapped?” This threw my mind into a spin and a wild search all over the world trying to figure out where one can extract such a fortune. Was it the Diamond mines in North Africa? Or the Gold deposits in the Southern part of the same continent? Or Oil reserves in the middle-east region and the wells of Natural Gas on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico? Maybe it’s on other planets in the cosmos that are still being explored to find out what is there. (Where do you think we can find such a cache?). Personally, I had no inkling of an answer to that question and when I was apprised, it was somewhere I never thought of in my wildest of guesses. Abundance is found in graveyards or the cemetery. There, behind epitaphs lie crème de la crème of brilliant minds that never utilised their potential gifts. We have world class track and field athletes who never broke sports records. We have actors and scripts writers who never produced the next blockbuster in theatres. We have scientists who never invented or innovated. We have eloquent orators who never gave the next big speech. We have designers who crushed with blue prints that could have revolutionised fashion, architecture and even the technological industry. We have musicians and songwriters who went silent with platinum hits. We have dancers and choreographers who froze with moves that could have upgraded ‘boogie’. We have leaders who are interred with sound policies that could have dismantled insidious laws. Hey! The list is endless. This reminded me of an analogy in the scriptures on the parable of the talents which simply implies that we are all given different starting positions in life. Some are born into bounty (five talents) and they earnestly multiply it. Others are born into scarcity (one talent) but instead, they hide it in the ground. What matters in life isn’t what we’re given- it’s what we do with it. Never ever sit on an aptitude or procrastinate on it. Martin Luther King Jr drives this home well, ‘if a man called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause to say- here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well’. A legacy should drive our modus operandi. (Written by Sam)
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:16:13 +0000
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