Something on Potential

Written on 6:34 PM by O

Someone more brilliant than I worked out that the world's most wasted resources lie in the graveyard. The talents, ideas and mental gems that were never released get buried and are lost forever! Sad as it may seem, this should motivate the living to do all they can. What a shame it would be for you to die with all the potential that you have that could make the world a brighter place for all. To make this a little more personal, think about how many steps back we would be today if Thomas Edison gave up on the light bulb or the Wright brothers thought it was possible to fly but waited for someone else to try to figure it out. Mind you, Edison didn't invent the light bulb, it was a 50 year old idea that he improved!

My grandmother passed away recently and I couldn't help but marvel at the stories I heard about her funeral (I was unable to travel to attend). The entire town (Otupko, Benue State, Nigeria) was there and people traveled from all over the country and some from as far as England to be there! Why? She made it a point to empty herself into as many people as she could before she was unable to communicate. She turned her entrepreneurship into a means of helping others as well as using it as a way to ensure that her children were well taken care of. And although my nanny couldn't read or write, she could count and she has children and grandchildren who are lawyers, doctors, businessmen and a host of other respectable professions.

I want to die empty. I want my life to have meant something when I leave this place. Corny as it may be, leaving something behind that is worth talking about is one reason I make an effort even when I just want to be complacent and lazy. So I hope to put everything between my ears into the world somehow (books, conversations, etc) before I leave.

How do you plan on giving all you've got? What do you have to give right now?

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