WHY GIVE UP WHEN YOU CAN WIN ?
Naturally, it is in you to succeed. For if as an unschooled toddler, you overcame the force of gravity without any knowledge of Physics, nor did you depend on any external influence to overcome the forces that were against your determination to walk, then I dare say that success is inbuilt in every human. It is a mentality that is inherent in every baby right from birth. Despite being uneducated, untrained and inexperienced, a toddler never gives up on his dream of walking regardless of his many failed attempts and pains of falling down again and again. Eventually he walks! He runs! That's how we all started walking and got used to it.
However, as we grew up, we lose sight of those early vital lessons of success through failures, we started listening to the nay-sayers all around, we started yielding to the negative thoughts in our head, and somehow we convinced ourselves to believe that success happens overnight and mostly not through failures. Then eventually we forgot how as little babies, we achieved the seemingly impossible task of walking. How can this be? That despite the formal education we received, the many years of experience we gained and the diverse trainings we have received, yet how so easily we give up on our dreams! How so often we accept defeat, and secretly label ourselves as failures in the hidden corner of our hearts. I ask, how come?
Where is that giant that was once in that little baby that made him believe he could do what he has never done before? Where is that genuine conviction that made us believe we could achieve the impossible even as babies? Could it be that as we grew up, the giant died down? If so, why didn't the giant grow up with us as we advanced in years, experience and what have you? And why didn't that conviction get stronger in our hearts over the years? Oh...how I wonder! More so, what can we do now?
It is my convinction that from birth we are all destined to succeed and having our own destiny in our own hands, we are indeed the sole determinant of what we become under God, whether successful or not, it is in our hands. Not in the hands of the government, our parents, friends nor our enemies. It is our sole responsibility under God to succeed. For God has made all things available unto us. Even the blind can attest to this. For we are not limited by the things we don't have, but by the things we have yet refused to make use of. For instance, we all have the same brain, but the extent to which you put yours to use, is what makes the difference between you and others around you.
For as much as it is true that as babies we didn't fail because we didn't give up, therefore we must forbid ourselves from giving up or accepting defeat in all our life endeavours, we must live in the consciousness of the fact that failure in itself doesn't exist, we and only we can bring it into existence when we decide to give up, because it only comes into existence in the lives of those who give up. So like Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Nelson Mandela and many others, persist until you win!!! Rise up as long as is needed, beat your chest and tell yourself, "it's not over until I win!!" And I promise you, you will surely win, because if as a little baby you achieved your dream of walking, how much more now that you are a man. Awake that sleeping giant within you and don't dare to conclude that you have failed because you are born to succeed.
I believe I have made some impacts regardless of its size....all the same, it's my pleasure writing. Thank you.
»»» By Sixtus Diala..... (SixtusInfinity)
