It's been a while since I blogged. About 5 days...Awww!! This past week was busy- physically and emotionally. I had a couple of special events; did a lot of thinking, asked myself a lot of questions.... When last did you do that??
Many of us do not take time to think. All we do is act, act and act some more. I am reading a book on Thinking; and I have learnt that it is all you need to do to make things happen. Sure, you've got to act. There are many things you have to do, many responsibilities on your plate, an agenda on your list....things will lag, suffer and somehow be laid back if you do not act...and act fast. In this day of smartphones, digital pictures, microwaves and fast food, everyone seems to be moving rapidly ALL THE TIME. Why won't we? If we don't, we might get trampled upon. If we don't, we may miss out on opportunities. If we don't, we may lose valuables like money, time and energy. If we don't, we may not get where we want to be when we want to.
But moving without thinking makes no sense. Absolutely no sense. I cannot but laugh at instances I remember where I had to go on a double run; or do something twice because I didn't think it through. You can't but SMH yourself for those times you made terrible decisions because you would not wait...because you wanted it NOW!!, because you refused to weigh the cost, benefit and consequences, because you refused to do something as simple as THINK THROUGH. Times you wanted that A so bad that you killed sleep, only to get sleepy in exam hall and manage to scribble a C down; because you refused to realize that unlike your friend who can crash-read within a night and get an A, your brain needs a stage-by-stage reception of data; or you just did not think about the effect that your sleeplessness can have on that paper. That time you just decided that you were going to lose 10KG in 5 days, and you begin to starve yourself to death and do terribly stressful exercises; then you wake up only to find yourself in an hospital bed after passing out. Or that decision you made to walk out of someone's life, only to find that after leaving, the person becomes a worse-of person because of the previous effect you had on his/ her, and the present effect that leaving his/her life has on her. Or when you decide to go to the club and become wasted, when you know that you have to usher in church the next day.
What does Dadiva have to say? I was at a professional summit yesterday, and I learnt something, which although was discussed in the light of HR can be a useful lesson in life generally. We want to grow, we have goals and visions, we want to attain them, we want to do the most we can, at the shortest time we can, we want to be on the fast track (and all these are good), but there is also to be in the pipeline, to watch and learn, to take things slowly, to be patient, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, to THINK about the fast track we are going to take before we take it. And not just to think, but to think it through
AYAFF SAID MY OWN O
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