We Have A Problem..

Perhaps our biggest mistake is that we try so hard to find ourselves in a world where it is very easy to get lost in, perhaps, we try so hard to figure out who we are and what we were created to be. Perhaps, our biggest mistake is that we expend so much energy and so much time just to discover where we fit in, so much energy to realize where our place in this world lies, and so much time wasting in doing a lot of adjusting and accommodating, sieving through deep layers of personalities and shades of our lives, hoping to present that near perfect aspect of ourselves to the world.

Perhaps, our biggest mistake, no, problem is ourselves.

Unstable as the waves of the sea, and unpredictable as the wind that blows haphazardly from the far corners of the globe, it is no secret that almost through out the green years of our lives, we struggle, with almost little success, to make sense of why we even exist; our lives, most times, have the abstruse feeling of being auto piloted by whatever hand we think controls us, and one may be well forgiven for attempting to succumb to the temptation of leaning back, relaxing, and enjoying the ride. Life, at this point, becomes almost very predictable -pass through the childhood, get good grades, have a degree, secure a good job, fall in love, have a family, grow old, and then leave this earth- and it takes only those who are crazy enough to wake up to the realization that life may not be so nice to give us what we ask for, and that something bigger, something more worthwhile could be in play.

Now stop and think for a moment…

Ever find it so bemusing and quite puzzling that even along the lines of how predictable we wish life could be, we, at the very least, are so often saddled with the hope of changing the world? Burning from within the embers of our chambers, we are largely consumed with the desire that one day, just around the next corner, what we do, what we say, will alter the direction of people’s lives for the better, yet, so annoyingly true, we realize that we are so overwhelmed smitten with the uncertainty of how to do it. We now reckon that the problem is not in getting there at all, but largely owing to glaring the truth: there was given no blueprint of how to get there. This throbbing headache leaves us in arrays of disjointed thoughts and keeps us sprawling freely in a catacomb of uncertainty and despair. This, we clearly understand, is a challenge.

But suffice me to say, or more appropriately, to write, we have a problem.

Tell me, what is the most terrible fate any man could suffer from? And what greater ill luck can any man have? For me, is for one to walk through this brown earth without anyone recognizing and appreciating him for who he is and for what he is. Such madness is too unbearable for my feeble heart to comprehend, but then, this mad matter always form the root of all man’s successes and failures. The challenge of how to get there becomes less intimidating when compared to the monstrous problem of identity. Now we can agree that the challenge of how to get there has never been our problem, the challenge of how to change the world is never an issue, but the problem of this challenge is what we must first arrest.

So yes, we have a problem, and one that needs a solution so urgently. But then, how effective can this solution be if the problem behind the challenge of how can we change the world is not known? How can a solution work well if it does not solve the problem of our challenge? This must we answer, but first, let us summarize this problem.

To be continued….

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