Human as he is, man himself in ceaseless struggle to seek some honour. No one who lives may entirely disagree with that English poet, Pritchard, who once said:
"I am not covetous for gold,
Nor cares I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear,
For such out ward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.". (Ibid).
Our world is such an uncharted sea of much more to learn than we can actually cram into the short space of our span that no individual can boast of the ability to conquer the world entirely alone. You just have to be born, to live and struggle, and to aspire to leave some everlasting achievement behind your name here on earth as you bid farewell to the world with all its enticing streaks. Just that and no more.
Paul, the celebrated Bible character, could not have made such a bell-ringing name in spite of his university of Tarsus law degree if the space he wrote to fill in the Bible had been filled before he had a change of heart. Luke could not have perhaps been know beyond his hospital theatre if he had no space to write about Jesus the Christ in the Bible.
Ditto for Thomas Payne, Bernard shaw, Bradlaugh, Doctor Johnson of England and Ingersol of America who all emerged from little or nowhere to titillate the world as secularist writers (I am sorry, people say they were renowned aetheists).
These men made their name immortal because they lived and were all immolated on the funeral piles of what they believed, and they had their days like all dogs of our time.
Quite often, man may be tethered to a position of stark ignorance where and when he lacks the initiative to believe that the most appropriate time to give up the struggle for survival is that hour we begin to see beyond our known world. The time of death !
CAPACITYBecause we are born with different kind of material capacities, we must die, liking it or not, and leave behind us different degrees of name and achievements and leave the rest to time and history to decide our various aggregates.
Such, I bet, is life. And there is no hocus pocus or any palava about it.
One thing I believe, and very well indeed-that nobody is born without some grain of usefulness. Thus if all talents were collated for the common improvements of all mankind, all bays would just be what they should. I mean all bays would be bays of plenty by adding what that early explorer call " Poverty Bay" to all other bays including the world most terrible bay of Biscay.
ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCE If you tell me that I am a psychologist, I would retort and frankly refute that I am one. All I know is that more often than not, human beings tend to cast aspersion on things that are theirs. Right down from Abraham Lincoln of America to president Olympio of Togoland, Presidents and heads of state have been assassinated by their own people. Indeed the impact of environment.
What bothers every aspirant to success in our modern world is the fear of the people we have around us. There are fears within and peace without. That is the riddle of it all.
THE CRUX The crux of the matter is that the invaluable achievements of men recorded till date could have been a farce if there were no toils before success. Both success and failure are in bitter scrimmage upon every man that tries to achieve success. When you plan to do something with the best of intentions, the fact remain intact that the execution of your plan cannot afford to please everybody . This is where opposition emerges between man and man, between one political party and the other and between nation and nation. Just like the myth of the struggle between God and Lucipher.
When a man runs the race of life and gives up because of the wedge of trouble within and peace without, he is said to have sunk. He becomes an enviable survivor.
The in between can only be a temporary station of life, and remaining there for longer than necessary leaves the static victim on the horns of a dilemma.
Man, you cannot afford to be stationary. If you wish to get up, it needs a lot of efforts, for you shall not be idiotic enough to opt for the botton of the ladder.
Man is born to choose either success or failure. Which mean you should either buck up or else you Buck down, that is either survive or sink.
