The You, You Don’t Know

Do (or did you as the case may be) know that you're a nation, a world in our world? Therefore, you've natural resources called talents within you. However, they might be hidden like crude oil under the waters of the sea in Nigeria or under the sands of the desert as we've in Arab nations.

If mankind was lazy, he wouldn't have discovered the oil resource, gold and diamond and other resources. So you've got to be hard-working, sensitive, witty, sagacious, patient and keen to discover your talents. Humans are walking talents! There are general talents which are peculiar to everybody and specific talents unique to individuals.

You study, watch, read about celebrities around you and the world over yet you refuse to study, watch and read about yourself – the first and only celebrity in your world. You know more about each celebrity more than he or she knows himself or herself. How pitiful! You see thorns in your own garden but roses in your neighbour's. To add insult to injury, you blame God for not giving you talent. Note: talents revolve not around movies, music, comedy, sports and literature alone. In fact, one of your talents could be spotting and discovering other talents. Talents are limitless!

Everybody has a mind, from the politician in Abuja, to the executive in Lagos, from the scholar in Sokoto to the tourist in Calabar. Our minds can give us health, wealth if we harness the potentials in them. Every man manufactures his mind conversely his mind manufactures him. In other words, you're your mind and your mind is you.

Create time for meditation. Explore your life. Retrospect. Introspect. Examine your strengths, interests, hobbies and habits. Analyse your weaknesses, frailties, flaws and faults. Review your sexuality and spirituality. Think about your past achievements, study your goals, dreams, desires and passions. Appraise your past and present relationships. Note the good and the bad people say about you and work on them. Sustain the good; abstain from the bad. Improve. Expand. Enlarge. Doing all these on regular basis would make you discover yourself, your calling and know more about God, life and humanity.

There's abundant success in the garden of diligence, so harvest! Don't give up! Don't shut down! Don't cave in! Don't peter out! If your heart could be so hard-working, what's stopping you? God loves you so much that He made you extraordinary and extraordinarily. He made you complete, don't make yourself incomplete by narrow thinking and laziness. You've got no excuse! If people who had ... practically nothing could succeed and achieve and become great then your sun hasn't and shouldn't turn to moon.

He's a fair and just God! He blessed the Arabs with abundant oil, an awesome resource in the deserts which some scientists claim were once seas. Who would think that something so precious like that could be beneath the sands of the desert? Many years ago, perhaps, they had thought, "Oh, God must be unfair, how could He give us lands so bad for farming and animal rearing?"

I see crude oil under that desert in your life.
Notable, remarkable scientists, inventors and explorers discovered themselves before discovering their theories, elements ... and lands. Philosophers, artists, musicians ... discovered the philosophy, arts, music in them before the world discovered (became famous) them. Albert Einstein, the genius, comes expressly to mind.

When I see a genius
I 'see' hard work, passion – the style in his fashion.

Catch them young. Discover the potentials of your children and ward early in life and make their passion become their profession. This way they would be fulfilled. Oh, nothing is sweeter, better jeez, prettier!

Ask friends, colleagues, relatives ... about the potentials they see in you, if you don't know any and even if you do. They might see what you're not seeing. Do you know that you may have talents that have not and may not be expressed in the world unless you discover that talent, refine and stage for the world to enjoy? It's a fact!! You can discover a genre of music hitherto unknown. Set the pace. Blaze the trail.

God made you great, never forget that. It's not when you become the president of a nation that you become great. In fact, you might be president and not be great and you could be the richest in the land and not be great. But you might be relatively unknown in the city and affecting people positively in the country, then you've passed the greatness test! It's not the man in the position that matters to me but the position in that man.

Every Tanko, Tayo and Tagbo wants to be great but he's not ready to pay the price. Greatness is not a measure of what you've but who you're! Don't ever erase or let the society erase that from your mind. Let it live in your conscious mind and it would eventually sink into your subconscious mind. Even if you're 90 and dieing next week, it's never late! You can still make positive impact in a life! Never say never!!

When you affect a life, you impact a world; when you impact a world, you affect our world. You are the best you around, the only and original you! You're a masterpiece don't make yourself a counterfeit. Appreciate your human and material possessions.

PLEASE READ THIS SHORT STORY:
WHO TOLD YOU?

One weekend a lady by name Cheryl visited her fiancé, Dean. Dean who was very romantic wanted to surprise his fiancée with a gift so he told her to wait for him while he went out for something. Not long after, Dean's new catch, basically for short-term pleasures, Pamela, sauntered in but not before answering piercing questions from Cheryl. Cheryl stood by the door observing and assessing her for some seconds as she walked in.

Dean, his fiancée and girlfriend were all African-Americans. Cheryl was streamline shaped, fair-skinned, slim-faced with an imposing height of 5'10; Pamela on the other hand was beefy, ebony-skinned and 5'1 in height. They were both blessed with good looks. Both of them were watching musicals but deep, very deep in diverse thoughts. These are their secret thoughts:

Cheryl: If Dean is secretly dating this lady then I'm done for. She's much more endowed. What with her inviting bust, traveling hips, I can't stand a chance. Her ebony complexion is rich and enticing, her raven hair is long and ravishing and above all, she's blessed with ample flesh, which makes her juicy just like apple. And of course, ignore her curves to your own peril. A curvaceous of class. Her 360-degree robust busts would make a man even forget his name but quickly remember to divorce his wife. Above all, she's portable which makes men look so tall and big around her. Men love that with passion, they love to dwarf their women, which makes them feel confident, proud, irresistible and very much in control since they know we love them big.

Pamela: I'd thought I've found my Prince Charming but with this angel and model, my hope is dashed. I've to come out of my shell and search for my predestined soul mate one more time. Life could be so unfair. What type of happenstance brought me up against this formidable opponent? Her dulcet voice, her starry eyes, her luscious lips would suffocate any lady any day. Just let her speak and wait to see Celine Dion scamper away. To cap it all, she's has an intimidating profile. Her statistics, indubitable weapons. Tall and graceful. Fair and velvety-skinned. She reminds me of Indian women I see in movies. Men always loved us tall and slim. This goddess would make men salivate some may even drool uncontrollably. Why didn't God make me a fair, tall and slim woman? My petite frame, my weakness! I know she can't and won't see me as her rival, little wonder she's not bothered about me.

When Dean came back with a bag, which contained wine, perfume, chocolate and Rolex gold wristwatch, he knew the bubble had burst so he forgot about Pamela. He later told Cheryl that Pamela was a friend he just met. Incidentally, a year later, Pamela and Cheryl got employed in the same bank by then Pamela was engaged and Cheryl had married Dean. They became acquaintances and later best of friends; they told themselves how they felt the first time they met at Dean's apartment.

The blondes want to be exactly like the brunettes and vice-versa; the hazel-eyed envy those with lapis lazuli eyes, the reverse is true as well.

See, be secure in yourself. The person you think is perfect wants to be like you, if only you knew.

Do have ravishing and refreshing weekend.