In black and white

Is it me or has this year been unusually fast? How else can I explain the fact that I've not yet achieved the thing I hoped to have achieved by this time?

This got me thinking why some people don't achieve as they ought to, and the answers came slowly as I took a thoughtful stroll in my neighbourhood.

Stay focused

P.K. Bernard said, "A man without a vision is a man without a future. A man without a future will always return to his past." That's true. The most important ingredient for achieving is having the vision, not just in the mind, but also in black and white. This impels the vision-bearer to spring into action, and stay focused until the vision is fulfilled.

A vision, to those who say such terms leave them clueless and confused, it simply a mental picture of something which such importance to you that you feel you will not be fulfilled unless you carry it out. If you meet a girl that you fall head-over-heels in love with, you will probably have a vision of walking her down the aisle. A man with such vision constantly playing on the back-screen of his mind will not rest until he has asked this girl out on a date and taking it from there until he slides a ring down her finger.

My stroll also got me thinking about our independence celebrations on October 9. How can we still celebrate without shame when years since we took the instruments of power from the British colonialists, we still have a messy education system that stresses rote memorisation to pass exams instead of practical and creative instructional methods through which we can produce our own Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerbergs?

Parents have to take back their places and help their children to discover themselves early on. It's the only way to grow intelligently and courageously to fulfill the purposes for which they were created.