Become a better you
We
were made for a reason. Not just to survive in a world built on survival but to
become a part of the creation process. To add value to our world in order to
make it better for the next man, woman and child. For the next generation to
come. We have been told to study this and study that, to live for excellence
and success but we have also been pushed to lose value of integrity, diligence
and honesty in the process. There is no gain where there is loss of identity
and reason. If your life is simply about the things that you have been told
matter then what kind of life do you really have? I met a man recently who had
found what he wanted to do with his life here on earth and how he wanted to
touch lives and interact with people. The problem was that people didn’t see
that they required his services so he joined up with other people in the same
field of work to create more impact. Strangely, instead of contributory
progress, it became more about individual pursuits and selfish ambitious
desires, leading this man to ask many questions. One of which was “Why?”
I
have come to realize that we are all gifted in one way or another to reach out
to our fellow man, to provide one form of service or the other, to share a
smile, a hug, laughter and love but the world we live in is not setup with
those kind of laws and rules. What was once good has been laboratized and
turned into a science of only the strong survive. While this is true, there is
a reason for this perceived madness in nature. Motion, progress, growth,
discovery. Whereas in human life, because reason exists among us, it was meant
to be that we abide, prosper, multiply and have dominion over the earth. What
we have come to love and live is not the way of truth. Yes, we have human factions:
a group of friends, people, community and category types, but we are all human,
different in our own unique ways. One to another.
Think
about this, if there already are problems in the world, problems that you
identify and recognize, problems that you wish were not there. Why do you
become a part of the problem to another human life? Why would your life take
away from someone else’s as opposed to creating value and making them better
off for coming in contact with you? Is it possible that in our journey, our
journey through life, passed down from one generation to the next, we have been
taught a great evil, an evil that has become a part of the formation of the
current generation and one that continues to strive strong in the hearts of
many?! I know that I cannot change the world alone or do some catastrophic good
that will save mankind; that has already been done on the cross. But as I have
also come to learn, good is a choice, love is a choice and life is a blessing.
To see the beauty in all of God’s creations. To love and live honestly, to give
sacrificially and to believe in a world to come where all is well.
As
you leave this write and go back to your life, I hope that I have been able to
surge you with enough reason to find the warmth in your heart, the truth in
your life and the gift you were born to share. Not just for the profit it may
or may not bring, but for the message to all of those who come in contact with
you. Stay blessed.
