INFINITE REALM

There ain’t nothing I can’t do,

No sky too high, no sea too rough, no muff too tough

Everything worth doing is worth overdoing

Moderation is for cowards.

Shane Patton – Lone Survivor

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are a fan of movies and have watched the infamous 2013 movie, The Lone Ranger, then probably you will be familiar with the excerpt above. Am not going to delve much into the movie, I will only use its excerpt above to bring my article to life. And I would advise those that have not watched the movie to try and watch it. Reason being: it has a lot of leadership quotes you can learn from.

Fast forward, my topic above. We, human beings are the most successful animals in this planet, owing to our brain structure and the way God created us. We have achieved tremendous goals and still have plans to achieve more. From the time Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon to the discovery of outer space, the invention of the internet, exploration of the deep ocean, inventory of robotics, surgery, medicine, these amazing discoveries, I have to say that it is overwhelming to its every detail. All these things have been achieved, not only by our intellect as humans, but because somebody dared to dream.

There is an infamous cliché that goes, ‘What we think, we become’ Man thought of going to the moon, we all know what happened. Steve Jobs had his own thoughts, today we delight in holding his dreams in our hands in the name of I phone. We all dare to dream, some achieve their dreams, some dread even trying, either because the dream is way too big, or the technicalities of achieving it are too cumbersome. But success is not for the faint hearted. Man couldn’t conquer the moon if he were faint hearted. The same rules of exchange apply in trying to achieve our dreams.

I pose a question, what would you do, if you were not afraid? It’s a rhetorical question, so you can keep the answer to yourself. In becoming what we think we are, fear is something that should not stand in our way. As it’s said, fear is quite contagious and the moment it rents a space within your brain cells, trust me, you are not going to do anything, not even trying to accomplish it.   Our capabilities are beyond measure and it all waters down to our belief system.

In my perspective, I believe anyone can do anything on earth. Our limits are only set by ourselves. A time back I was talking to my colleagues and I told them that today if someone appoints you to be the CEO of this company given a few weeks of training, then probably you may even run this company better than the current CEO. Some of them looked at me as if I was drunk despite the fact that I was drinking a jug of milk, literally (no pun intended). I then gave a little explanation to my utterances and they started seeing the sense as they were nodding in affirmation. Logically it’s possible, ethically, someone may say you need this and that, you need some experience and some qualifications and a hullabaloo of explanations. Which may be right or wrong, it depends on perception. But come to think of this, what if everyone was given equal opportunities, what will the world become?

We are where we are as the human race, basically due to the fact that our systems have brought us to where we are. I am one person who thinks differently because I believe we as human beings could do more. We didn’t have to wait till 1969 to set foot on the moon. If a nuclear bomb was dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki way back on August 6^th 1945, why did they have to wait till 1969 to land on the moon, while someone could just use the theory of nuclear physics to come up with a high powered rocket and may be land on Mars. Anyway, I have little knowledge of space exploration and rocket science, so I won’t argue much. But in my thoughts, I deeply believe that if everyone was given equal opportunities then we as humans would have gone a lot more steps further.

There are no limits to human intelligence; we just don’t have the chance to display them. Some of the best ideas the world has never seen are either buried 6 feet deep or have been cremated depending on a society’s rituals and culture. Some of the best books never written, the best songs never heard, the poems never recited, the vehicles never invented, the movies never watched, the architectural designs never envisioned, the aerodynamics never invented, the best presidents never elected. All these are deep in the ground, because someone was too afraid to try, so they died with their dreams. No wonder it’s said that the soil is very fertile.  I am for the opinion that it’s better to die with a memory than to die with a dream.

The dreams we have, are never our creation. They come in our minds and thoughts from a higher being and as a staunch Christian; I believe they come from God. He puts them in our minds because he trusts that we can achieve them. Dying with them would be a great offense to him. We just need to identify what was put in us and exploit it. If man can dig deep into the ground to discover diamonds, why can’t they dig into their minds to discover their dreams? Which is easier, digging a hundred kilometres into the ground to mine gold or digging ten centimetres into your mind to discover ‘diamonds’?

Your abilities are never limited and as my sister Lupita Nyong’o in her acceptance speech as an Oscar award winner, “No matter where you come from, your dreams are valid” Just fall into the sphere of the infinite realm and discover your purpose on earth. As Mark Twain puts it, there are two most important days in a man’s life, the day you are born, and the day you find out why, so I pause the question, why were you born?