Hey Nyasha!
How is Masvingo? And
more importantly, how are you? Isu we are ripe and ready to rot and iwe you are
green and about to mature into something great. My wife and another couple went
out a few weeks ago. I absolutely love water sports, but I cannot swim. I spend
lots of time on the ocean, lakes and seas. We agreed to play some water sports
(bad idea).
The ladies did some
stuff on their own and we did Speed boat together. As the boys we did jet
skiing as well.
My wife and I then
went onto two separate tubes drawn by a speed boat. The adventure was so nice
until the speed boat driver decided to make it into even greater adventure. He
increased speed and our tubes started colliding. On the second collision, mine
capsized right in the middle of the dam. I gulped a few sips of the dirty
greenish water. I still had my hands on the tube except that I was no longer
inside it, but under it.
I was wearing a
life jacket and so all the good swimmers including my wife kept on saying,
Brian let go of the tube. In my head, the tube is what was keeping from
drowning – the difference between life and death. But in reality the tube is
what was precipitating my drowning. The experts kept saying let go and just lay
back the life jacket will keep you afloat. The power of fear is such that I
refused to heed conventional wisdom.
On reflection, this
event taught me something that I wish to share with you as a brother and
friend. There are comfortable things in life that we all need to let go of in
order to stay truly alive. They might appear like our security, but these
things keep us from going to the next level. For some people it could be friends,
for others habit of comfort and for others still a work ethic. What got you
where you are now, will certainly not take you to the next level. As painful as
it might be my brother, please let go of yesterday and now so that you may be
able to grab a better future. Don’t drown in comfort or rather do not
drown with comfort.
School is important,
but innovation is better. School gives you credibility in a world run through
certificates and innovation gives you a cutting edge and a competitive
advantage in world where there are so many brilliant people and very few
innovative ones. If you can see through to space using a telescope why on earth
would you want to make the sky your limit? Make outer space your limit and you
might just land on the moon!
Have a wonderful
evening.
Regards,
Brian Kagoro, (B.K)