There is nothing on this earth that is as powerful as a made up mind.

There is nothing on this earth that is as powerful as a made up mind.

I have thought through this sentence over and over again and either way I look at it, it resounds with a power that is humbling,energizing and true.

When you consider the causes of major milestones in human existence, it does ring true that they occurred when a people collectively made up their minds.

From the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall. From the Mau-Mau uprising to the Arab Spring. From the decision of your neighbor to let go of a lethargic job that was holding him in eternal bondage to that glint in the eye of a girl who has decided that he is the one. All these and more are reflective of the idea that nothing can stand in the way of an idea whose time has come.

When you add hunger into the mix, you then have a combustion of epic proportions. When the human soul is hungry to be more, it will drive its host to hell and back until the desired state has been achieved.

This monologue reminds me of a friends decision to take charge of her life. She had worked for donkey years in the civil service and the work had become so automated that she could do her work with her eyes shut. Her soul was slowly dying. Her heart was lacking in freshness. Her imagination was festering with the pus of a structured system. Her body had long given up on itself. The daily task of waking up and reporting to work was a case study of resistance.

The one day it happened. Just like that. Her mind took a twist that was alien to her body. Her mind decided to take charge. The task at hand was to reverse this trend that would clearly lead to inevitable disaster.

She quit her job. Or was it that her job was taken away. Either way her and her job were no longer in speaking terms. Her mind was consumed with the idea that there was a better way to live her life.

She did not know how she would go about it. All she knew was that her present circumstances was stifling and suffocating her. She was in that zone of hunger. A zone that can so consume you that you are in an insatiable state.

The last time that I saw her, she was completely transformed. Her eyes had that spark of confidence and certainty. She sprung as she walked as if she was primed to grab any and all opportunity that walked her way.

I am sure that, wherever she is, she is smiling her way through life and is a happier soul.

All human beings have the ability to better their circumstances. It is Rev. Jessie Jackson who said that I was born in a slum, but a slum was not born in me.

All that we need to do is make up our minds and add the element of hunger. We will then be galvanized into action and nothing, absolutely nothing will stand in our way.









Your life is in your hands