FROM MY DESK: THE POWER OF REASON

A major problem plaguing the entire world today is the clarity of desires. A people without a conviction are a people void of intentions. A lot of people do not know exactly for sure what they want for themselves. They strive for a cause without a reason. Winners don’t just set goals; they generate an impact for a greater good. 

Great Mohandas Gandhi in a letter to his grandson Arun Gandhi stated what he termed as the “7 social sins”. These were

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Knowledge without character

Commerce without morality

Science without humanity

Worship without sacrifice

Politics without principle

It’s an extreme anomaly to desire a definite height without a defined and proportionate reason. A lot of young adults in Africa exhibit a tendency of being or wanting something devoid of a reason and a plan. 

The truth about desire is there is always a prerogative; either tenable or inexplicable. Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion states that “A body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force”. He called it the Law of inertia. Inertia is a term used to describe unwillingness to take action. 

Complacency is the appropriate term used to describe human unwillingness to take precise actions due to the favourable atmosphere of their present level. Human beings are puppets of reason. Reason is the process of thought transformation into action with the primary gratification of a subject focus.

The first step to actually knowing what we want is knowing exactly what we deserve. Self discovery makes us aware of the depths of character we possess and the correct attitude towards taking precise steps in the actualization of our different goals and objectives. If I’m aware that I deserve the best in life, all my thoughts and actions will be directed precisely towards helping me achieve the primary objective. 

Thoughts are creative but self discovery and mastery helps organize and orientate these thoughts into basic fundamental life principles and precepts. Remember, everyone is gifted. It takes discipline to nurture your gift and experience to master it