2015
is a year I have struggled to unravel my writing muse. It’s been an uphill
contest of the mind and spirit, in a bid to reconnect with the power I possess
behind the pen. While it’s obvious that great writers are avid readers, my
reading this year has done little to inspire my writing. Someone learned once
told me that in writing, you don’t have to wait for inspiration. Sometimes, you
just have to go with it. Precisely lifting the pen and rolling with your
thoughts
This,
I have most definitely tried but my thoughts refuse to be coherent. I am a
writer inspired by circumstance and experience. Lack of the two, easily gets me
hitting my head against the wall hoping to draw solid ideas.
I
am sitting in the University library, a place I like to frequent to read
literature, class notes and download movies. As crowded as it may sometimes be,
it’s an environment I easily detach myself from the numbers and get to a state
of oblivion. Tomorrow I have a test on health communication, a unit compulsory
in my curriculum. My aggregate points massively depend on departmental units; I
therefore have to be thoroughly acquitted before 9am tomorrow when the test
commences.
However
serious this may sound, I feel compelled to open up on a contemporary life
aspect. I am hardly stricken by compelling thoughts, so when I do, I like to
put them on paper, lest they fizzle out. I am a staunch believer of second chances in
life. Second chance is applied metaphorically to represent third, fourth or
even five chances. My world knows no giving up or relenting. There is always
room for better if you are a progressive thinker.
Life
is learning in progress. There is no monopoly of thoughts, ideas or opinions. Everyone’s
view of life is correct if you can authoritatively defend it. Someone may argue
that, if indeed there’s a second chance to everything, then there would be a second
chance to life after death. Unless this is from a religious view point, I
object with the notion that, you only live once but as long as you’re not dead,
you possess the power to keep attempting for as many times as you can until you
succeed.
Fact
is, every time you venture into something you acquire a new angle to life that
eventually makes you wiser. In this case therefore when you fail, always give
it another shot, this time incorporating the new knowledge you just earned.
Restraining yourself only means that you will never get to know the potential
of what you have invested on.
Continuous
failure can sometimes be emotionally draining but last I checked, the greatest
failures in life are the most successful people worldwide. Ben Carson is a great
example...Need I add to the list.
Recently
someone mentioned to me that sometimes the best thing in life is to let go. What do you mean let go? Letting go is, meek,
mainstream and average, and who wants to be average? In life when you settle
for average, you attract mediocrity, poverty and any other negative adjective
you can attach to these.
The
things you find hardest in life achieve the greatest results. In this case
therefore, if giving a second chance to something is what you find hardest to do,
you are probably missing out on life’s greatest moments that you need to catch
up on before they permanently slip away.
