Attaining Greatness

The thing about doing your best and reaching for greatness is, you can never go wrong and you will always achieve great results regardless of the outcome. While at it you must be honorable in your efforts. There is nothing sadder than when finished to be tainted but a misgiving of the past. Although some misgivings do go away, others stay.

That said, when a person reaches for the highest pinnacle, when their thought patterns changes, they begin to rise high. That is why a person’s action speaks more for them than their very words. When words and action are in agreement, we value what is said that much more. We are sucked into them, does "charming" sound familiar.

When you reach for greatness, the truth is many of us never get to the target. Something always happens along the way to derail us. For as much as we are elevated by our positive thoughts, the law of Physics applies too. Every action has an equal but opposite reaction. The naysayers will have a say in it, the enemies will butt in their opinions because God forbid that you do more than they would like you to do, and then the ‘ota’ (enemies in Yoruba, there is something to this I cannot justly explain in English) will go all out to stand in your way like a huge boulder.

Either way it is the way of the Victorious to rise above every obstacle, and an un-mountable obstacle must be destroyed making way for the discouraged and those who are just starting out. The Victorious also knows when to chart a new course of action, and when to pursue after the intangible thereby leaving the present pursuit for something equally greater and more feasible (or an accumulation of lesser that amounts to greater achievement), perhaps in that you find the strength and a new meaning for the initial goal at hand.

Whatever the case maybe, the world waits those who search new paths to bring about new value to life. They await those who risk it all for a greater glory they are yet to see, a glory that may not exist but worth the struggle just for perceiving it. In the end (did I use this phrase already), when the path to your glory is blocked, another opens up just astride of it – “have u read about penicillin?” Because, if Greatness is a God, it is delighted in your pursuit, it will make itself available in every corner it hides itself.