Why am I here?

Today's thoughts are with us when we find our life at those pits we cannot explain and yet know things ought and can be different. It's for you my friend when life seems to have closed in on you. These lines are for you as you walk through those questions that no one else but you can fathom.


So when the torrential rainfall is hitting hard about and drowns away all your plea and cry for help. When even you reaching out is simply whining and does not even change your situation, what do you really do? I can tell that, it is not a funny experience to wonder why good things happen  all around you, but takes delight in skipping you. How do you explain that your hard work and self mortification counts for nothing. Or is there something you are missing. If you have been through all these, then you must have asked this question: why must my case be different?

And I will answer, because you are not other people. Yes! Okay so that is not what you are looking for. Okay, let's attempt to do a little more explanation. You see, we often say we are not considering what others think nor are we trying to equate or measure our lives on some template that the world has designed, but my friend, deep inside us are plots that we have built overtime that centers on the same very mandates, even though they are masqueraded as our processes. Truth is that, it is not the things that are not working for us that actually weighs us down, it is the manner we carry them that gives them a larger than life hold on us.

Imagine that you are seeking a companion and life partner and at the same time, you feel you are the only one among your peers that is still unmarried. Okay, you are married and there is no child, or the joy in your home is so incomplete. Perhaps, your case is having no job or been sick. Maybe you do not fall into any of these but your world is just not working in the sphere that you have ever envisaged. Hmm! Not a situation to find oneself, but you know your story makes leaving it merrier when it finally does.

So why are you here? You are here because you challenge has an expiry date that is depended on you. Yes, you don't need to walk around with the whole world on your shoulder even when that is literally what it is. You have the right to see things the way they are, yet you are where you are because you have used the same approach and expected a different outcome. And so, you need to first answer some simple questions;

• Who am I? 
• Why am I here?  
• Where am I? 

Until you successfully answer these, you may not be able to situate if you are even in the right location. Sometimes, it is just this simple answers that helps us to shift our focus from receiving side attention to full attention. It will help us see the foundation and the issues therein and only then can we situate ourselves spiritually and otherwise to tackle whatever is bedeviling us.  Your father, pastor, boss or doctor can do only little to move you in the direction of your solution. You hold the ace. Start with yourself, not just using the harsh tactics, but also truthfully. You may need to cut off some associations, you may need to cultivate new terrains and nurture enduring patterns around you. Just know, the change starts with you and it comes from within and again we say - Its in you. 

So, how long more depends on you. How Long  - Not Long!

Nugget: How often we cry wishing for changes, when all that needs to change for change is us. See your victory first inside you and you will have it soon enough.