SECOND CHANCES

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.