BE A PACE-SETTER

Evolution clearly states that this is a world in which survival is of the fittest while elimination is the fate of the weak.The race belongs to the swift and strength and power determine whether you survive or you end up being served as someone`s dinner.Mankind has been at the front of this game by being at the cutting edge of innovation and making sure that as a species we should get better at everything that threatens our  success in the multifarious challenges survival poses.

In our daily lives ,the most inspirational achievements have been accomplished by people who  aim for excellence,who stretch themselves to the limit and who reach out into the unknown,drag the impossible into the possible.Because of these daring individuals we enjoy their achievements or we get to share their success.Ask yourself what it takes to achieve so much.

I think the biggest tragedy in life is that of under-utilised potential which later goes to waste and the end of the story is that of nothing getting done .The opposite of this is that I believe people have the capacity to do great things and scale new heights which eye has not seen nor ear heard.Numerous volumes could be written about disabled people who challenged their conditions ,defied hitherto perceived logic and embarked on challenges and tasks they accomplished.They were willing to chat new territories and explore a world of new possibilities.Whenever I think about these things, I understand very clearly the reason why I resent the word IMPOSSIBLE.

This word has been responsible for a lot of dreams getting shelved and forgotten.It is responsible for sapping the energy and life out of otherwise vibrant ambitions.The notion of the word impossible has killed inspiration,innovation and the good old creativity.The broken Olympic athletic records,the spectacular scientific discoveries  and the spell –binding achievements in history all came to pass because of men and women who decided to barnish this word first before they decided to take on the world and thus became pace-setters.

So, shun mediocrity ,be a pace-setter and the sky is the limit.

By EDWARD NGUNDU

edwardngundu@yahoo.com