WITHIN OUR REACH.

You see, men for thousands of years walked across the Sahara desert and other deserts totally unaware of what lay under their feet. And as they wandered in those trackless wastelands, they were oblivious of the facts that under their feet were ‘golden deposits’ which were rare on the surface of the earth. The deserts where most oil deposits are found in North Africa and Middle East have been in existence for at least some centuries. The inhabitants who were mainly nomads considered the large dry areas to be of no great economic use except perhaps for cattle keeping though not so much profitable. As men walked across these deserts they never were able recognize of the fact that perhaps what would change their life economically was right there with them.

To some extent, technological levels limited them. It would not allow them to make such assumptions as existence of oil and its use. Prop ably there were no heavy machines to be driven by the oil. I do not blame them for that but it does not make us wish away the fact that oil was just below their feet and the surface. But as I think of this time that man lived veiled of the great opportunity, I just lament that they lost too much. Some died poor, some died still crossing the deserts with less water and food. I must however put a disclaimer at this point that I am not worried about them but about us in our generation.

I always wonder do we still miss the opportunity as they did. Are we still walking with our own feet on what would change our economic, social, and economic or education status? Wait a minute I wish to restate the questions. Am I walking in familiar grounds unknown to me that this would change my fortunes? Are there signs that are i too walking on oil deposits? Well, I do not know but after you read this then you will realize if it’s so. But I strongly suspect you will find it to be so. You see this article and the whole blog is to help you join the dots.

Most times, life is just what we want it to be. And to be more specific most often, life is just what we wish to see it to be. It’s not that what we view it as. I mean the sophsticated and complicated thing we think it is. Real life is just in our eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. It’s on what we can see, hear, smell and taste and touch. It never that hard. The opportunities to earn money, build a happy family, live happy life and even live with good friends are a close as we would probably think and image. It is just near us to sound to be true. It’s just a distance within reach. But unfortunately we never seem to grasp this simple truth. Just as I was oblivious to the desert dwellers that below their feet was oil.

Behold we think and say what I can see with my naked eyes, hear with my ears and smell with my nose is never too good and is not what things ought to be. Fueled by the new philosophies of ‘thinking out of the box’ and such other charismatic sayings that urge us to think really hard, we have no clue that our own environment that we live in would ever be important to us. Thus we will only think of the sand and its content and composition but not beyond its depth. Sand is just sand and nothing more. It’s for building and construction. We are simply wishing to find other uses of sand beyond that but we fail to scope it and expose the resources that it hides from us. We concentrate on its scientific analysis and forget that other underlying part where it rest.

I challenge us to be critical thinkers just applying a few logic to what we know because worthy opportunities are within us. Do not be ignorant or shallow sighted to think that too must sophistication is what brings the most brilliant opportunity. No this is not the truth. There is nothing that is ‘hidden’. It’s just that the sand reduces our ability to see beyond the surface where good tidings lie. As you remove it then unbelievably the precious oil will be in sight. In fact these ideas are in abundant. Where we live, where we sleep and among people who we live with. They are in things we come across each day as we work. They are in things we just think about but reject them as no super ideas.

This dot is to emphasize this simple fact yet which we easily ignore. It just import that you just look around and see all the opportunities that are around you. They may not be in things that you so much esteem but just a little scratch on the surface will do a miracle. It will be a Eureka moment of our life. It will transform your lifestyle and that of the society. Believe me what is out our reach with our physical organs, is simply supernatural. But in that awkward place you reside will the magnificent idea you have been looking up to will it be found. Now you see I have told you. See if what I assumed is true.

Cheers because you can now do it with what you have.