SELF REALIZATION (fulfillment of one's own potential)
I was once a mediocre not until I realized that I am
more than what I think I am and I can do more than what I think.
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| When you begin to realize you are better |
This is the life we are in today. “You control
yourself or the world controls you”. There are two stages of self realization
that I pictured.
1. The starting point (which is self realization
which is in Christ). No other starting point can lead you to a fulfilled life
except through Christ.
2. Self Acceptance (Being able to accept who you are
to fulfill life’s purpose)
These two stages will be succinctly explained as
we move further. As a societal writer, I noticed that many people with high
intelligence and the gem of greatness often limit themselves to settle for
less.
This article will help change your mind set from
the former life of mediocre to a life of greatness.
Some people never achieve what they want in life
just because they do not believe they can achieve it. Some people look at
themselves as if they can’t. Some have decided that they can’t, not because
they can’t but because they are comfortable with where they are. Some people
get comfortable by the relatively hand to mouth experience not because they do
not have the opportunity of getting higher and better but just because they
feel it’s not necessary to be better.
I will use these three forms to classify human
characters
i.
The Chickens
ii.
The ducks
iii.
The Eagle
I will explain the characteristics of each of
these animate characters and then see it in the way people or human beings
behave in life and situations. These stages will help you understand where you
stand and where you need to make amends and make “self realization” a reality.
People under this forms holds the characteristics
of each of the forms mentioned above. People exhibit these characteristics.
The Chicken
A chicken doesn’t fly much anyway
because their body mass prevents them from getting more than a few feet off the
ground. Lighter breeds can fly over six feet high. And even within the heavier
breeds, you can always have a few birds with enough determination and wing
strength to get high off the ground. A chicken is often restricted as a
domestic animal with little or no freedom. Even when the freedom is there he
can only fight little preys but a bigger is not its type. So a chicken is
always at risk when it meets a dog.
The Duck
Most ducks have this inability to
fly as birds and even if they do, it’s just a little flight. Ducks exploit a
variety of food sources such as grasses, aquatic plants, fish, insects,
small amphibians, worms, and small molluscs.
Worldwide, ducks have many
predators. Ducklings are particularly vulnerable, since their inability to fly
makes them easy prey not only for predatory birds but also large fish like pike, crocodilians, and other aquatic hunters,
including fish-eating birds such as herons. Ducks' nests are raided by
land-based predators, and brooding females may be caught unaware on the nest by
mammals, such as foxes, or large birds, such as hawks or owls.
They are
easily captured by their predators.
The Eagle
The Eagles
have a keen vision. Their eyes are specially designed for long distance focus
and clarity. They can spot another eagle soaring from 50 miles away. An eagle
will never surrender to the size or strength of its prey. It will always give a
fight to win its prey or regain its territory. The eagle unlike other birds
that fly away from the storm with fear, an eagle spreads its mighty wings and
uses the current to soar to greater heights. The eagle takes advantage of the
very storm that lesser birds fear and head for cover. Eagles can fly up to an
altitude of 10,000 feet, but they are able to swiftly land on the ground ~ Dr,
Myles Munroe. When the eagles reach the age of 30, their physical body
condition deteriorates fast making it difficult for them to survive. The eagle
retreats to a mountaintop and over a five month period goes through a
metamorphosis. It knocks off its own beak by banging it against a rock, plucks
out its talons and then feathers. Each stage produces a re-growth of the
removed body parts, allowing the eagle to live for another 30 - 40 years. The
Eagle has the ability to nurture their young ones. Research has shown that no
member of the bird family is more gentle and attentive to its young ones than
the eagles.
People who achieve greatness in this world are people
who have vision for the future. There are many great leaders that came and went
but one characteristic that is common in all is "Vision". Vision
makes people see things happening. Abraham, Lincoln, the 16th president of the
United States, guided his country through the most devastating experience in
its national history, the Civil War. He had a vision, to save the union and
free the slaves. He was able to achieve this through Vision for the future of
his country.
Size does not matter at all in this
context but the strength and determination to conquer and protect what is most
important. The zeal to carry the burden to achieve victory at the end is what
matters. No room for given up, no room for turning back.
Being comfortable with where you are and who you
are is a step but in the other way round, it’s just like a stagnant water
logged in without any movement and no matter the changes made to this water it
never changes but gets worse and smells bad. That is how some people look at
themselves and it’s surprising they are comfortable in such a mess. They see
decisions taken by others as unrealistic but yet there is a flow and a change
in movement from one point to a better point. So also, when a river takes in
water and flows out, it will remain clean, neat and healthy for life.
There is always something I see in people’s eyes
whenever I take a selfie. I see a logged dream wanting to move out but fear and
doubt makes dark its part.
There is always something in people’s life that cannot be taken, a greatness that cannot be stolen. So many people smile, yet their smiles are full of tears. Many people living with low self esteem always say “I can’t”. Just because you are not privileged to have now does not mean you cannot have tomorrow. Just because you weren’t born rich does not mean you were born to remain poor. Just because your house is small does not mean you cannot own a nice car. Just because your cloths are not today’s fashion does not mean you are not looking good. Just because your watch is not Gucci does not mean your watch cannot read the time correctly.
You can be whoever you want to be not whatever you
want to be because your life is worth more than you think. God’s plan and
design for you and me is to make us prosper according to his will but more
often we make believe what our lives should be.
You have what it takes to be real, whatever it
takes to be better. “Never settle for anything less than the best. Never listen
to any voice less than ‘you can’.” Never believe in any dream that make life
decide because you are greater than what life presents to you.
You will remain the way you are, if you don’t make
an attempt to move an inch to a new life.
The
environment and people
Friends who don’t want you to live where you are,
wants you to be like them.
Some friends initiate their thought and ideas
about life in you, making you feel this is all you can get. Realize this, it’s
not you and it’s not them. Low self esteem creates a passion of not trying. It
makes you settle for less than the best.
It’s a question? Have you realized who you are?
Are you laying low like stagnant water, the chicken or duck? Are you
comfortable with what you are today?
Some people live their lives as a chicken, because a
chicken never flies more than above a fence or six feet. Lazy people are just
like the ducks that keep swimming without gazing beyond their reach to see the
greatness in them. The eagle flies about 10,000 feet and achieves the
unexpected and unimaginable. It takes risk. The eagle never looks at the size
of its prey. No wonder other birds see him as a fool.
Someone once said if your dreams don’t
scare you then you have not started dreaming. It wouldn’t even dawn on you to
be afraid because your instinct is to protect that which you love and cherish.
We
don’t run away from the storms of life but use every resources at our disposal
to reach greater heights. Storm we must face in life to achieve greater things.
“Some people have decided that they can’t, not
because they can’t but because they are comfortable with where they are”
Abraham John.
Realize that
you have more than you think. Realize you can do more than you have done.
Realize that you can reach beyond the mountains that seem so high to cross.
Realize that you were created for a better you not a lesser you. Realize that
you have dreams worth more than you have achieved.
“If your dreams don’t scare you then you have not
yet started dreaming”.
Be the Eagle of your generation!
Written By Abraham John
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