Man Know Thyself

Posted on June 5, 2013

I am not an accident, I am not mass produced. I am not an assembly line product. I was deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on earth by the master craftsman.

– Max Luxedo. Best selling Author.

 

As a child, I had dreamt of working for the biggest corporations in the country, after I graduated from the university. This is a dream well shared by majority of graduates all over the world. As we grow up and get to know how stuff works we realize that the big corporations just can’t employ everybody and the global economic crises did not help matters either.

Instead of being lost or allow yourself to drift with the tide of life, you can discover that specific gift that the master craftsman has bestowed on you. I know you have heard similar comments before, what have you done about it?

Its convenient to blame the weather, government policies, the political party in power, our background, the economy, and everything else we can lay the blame on except the one person that should be blamed – OURSELF.

Let me explain, when you are a baby, you cry out when you are hungry and don’t stop until you are fed, you literarily go ravage any food you like and instinctively spit out anything that don’t taste nice to you. You go straight for anything that caught your fancy not minding the obstacles or difficulty in getting to it. But as you grow up, you start hearing things like, “don’t go there”, “don’t do that” “why don’t you be like others?” coupled with the desire to please our friends, family and to “fit-in”, you eventually lost yourself.

As a result, our decisions and actions are influenced by what people say or think. The limitations this places on us is so great that we wait for someone to give us jobs, wait for someone to create the jobs, wait for the right time, wait for the right person, wait for the right circumstances, the list is endless and as a result, we watch our lives pass us bye with lots of regrets at old age for unfulfilled aspirations and untapped potentials.

I’ll tell you a story about a 63 years old woman who lifted the back of a Buick to free the arm of her grandson trapped under it. Before then, the heaviest thing she had ever lifted was a 20kg bag of chicken feed. It was reported in the local news. A reporter paid her a visit to get an interview but she refused to comment on what she called “the event”. After persuasions and calling her “grand ma” at her request, she disclosed that the “event” made her ask herself questions about things she felt she could not do. She asked the reporter this question. “Does it mean that I have wasted my life?” he answered her no, that she can still do whatever she had wanted to do. She wanted to study Geography but her parents had no money to send her to college, so she gave it up.

After a little coaching, she went back to school at 63 and got a degree in Geography and went on to teach at a local school.

Is there something you could have done? You want to do? You can still do it. You don’t have to wait until you are 63 years old.

“It is my belief that there two you’s. the one you are created to be, and the one the environment has made you. Wake up the real you and start making a difference”.