DEAR Editor;
Joseph Prince’s (a Singaporean theologian) masterpiece goes something as follows, ‘Right believing produces right living’. To concur, TD Jakes (an American theologian) concedes that your ‘attitude determines your altitude’.
In essence they are saying how high you go in life is determined by how high you think, believe and convince yourself you can go. Conversely, how high you can’t go is deeply embedded in the low impression you have about your supposedly non-existent capacity.
The area of stagnation almost always seems to be one sore point – detractors. If one doesn’t know who and what detractors are, one would often always stumble over them, fumble, fall and fail. So what are detractors?
In my parochial world, these are fellow humans whose hearts are consumed by hatred for human progress, fellow humans who were themselves great dreamers whose dreams became unattainable because they stumbled over others of the same ilk, fellow humans who are angry with themselves because of wasted opportunities that cannot be retrieved.
Common sense dictates that progressive people can’t and shouldn’t regard these as real impediments.
Remember that you need time, attitudinal efforts and mental energy to muster enough guts to launch a programme of hatred for your formidable foes – how to avoid them when you see them, what to say to them when you meet them just to show you’re still in control, the emotional strain you feel every time you’re going to deal with them, etc.
A dreamer knows there’s no time to waste on peripherals because time is such a vital tool at the dreamer’s disposal. Nationally, our current nemeses seem to be a notoriously long list, far longer than both your arms joined together: the Ugu water blues, the State Capture and our varied responses to it, the urban decay the entire country is staring in the eye, service-delivery issues more especially by our municipalities, our education system that seems not good enough for the times we’re living in.
However, our belligerent dreamers who have a resolve to see us through amidst the mayhem are nowhere near throwing in the towel like the rest of us have already done.
Let’s give them a chance. On an individual basis, there’s that business you want to kickstart, that project you want to try your luck on, that degree you’d like to study, that ministry you want to get off the ground etc. The simple message is: dream on and start acting on it irrespective of who your detractors are. After all you were born for a reason.
WILLIAM NONGAWUZA
Shelly Beach
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