WHEN YOUR EXPERIENCES CONFLICTS WITH YOUR INSTINCTS!

WHEN YOUR EXPERIENCES CONFLICTS WITH YOUR INSTINCTS!

Each of us is born with an inner longing deep within us. There is something our soul pants after which we are continually drawn to even unconsciously. Something that inspires, stirs and stimulates us into taking a leap out of our comfort zones into the wilderness of uncertainties to explore invisible but achievable possibilities. There are things both in content and context that fascinate us. Our attention is irresistibly drawn to them either when reading or listening to the news headlines on radio or television, going through the pages of the magazine, book and other materials, during a discussion or when taking a walk down the street. We meditate upon them and wished they were already realities. When we are able to live in these realities, we have a sense of fulfillment. But of course you know that expectations and realities are distance apart.

  There are prevailing circumstances conflicting with and contradicting our inner longing. At times, you may have the instinct for wealth creation, yet born into poverty and grew up in an environment of financial scarcity. Your inner desire may be to love and care for the needy, yet you grew up in an environment of hatred and hostilities being neglected in the jungle to either struggle on your own to survive and success or die and be forgotten.

You are naturally liberal and generous, always ready to sacrifice for the good of others, yet nobody cares when you are in need. You desire to be strong, yet struggling helplessly with some weaknesses and addictions. You don't like bending issues, yet you get fired and hurt each time you say the truth. You desire to lead a very simple life even to relate freely with the common man in the street, but your social status wouldn't allow you. Your heart longs for a peaceful and loving relationship but all you get is frequent heartbreaks and fall outs....the list continues and you may add your own experiences. But however your experiences might have been, you've got to be strong to scale through all the unwanted circumstances and follow your instincts, your inbuilt compass and wiring to succeed in life.

Now, deep inside every negative circumstance are great opportunities to explore and exploit the inventory of our innate potentials and this is the road map towards maximizing opportunities around us. Never allow prevailing circumstances to limit, inhibit and prohibit your drive for greatness and sense of purpose. Never succumb to the dictates of negative circumstances to let go of your dreams. Instead, dare to listen to that inner voice calling you to reach out to higher summits. You can always do far more than what prevailing circumstances would ordinarily allow. If your environment wouldn’t encourage the fulfillment of your dreams, then create a new environment even if you don't relocate from where you are.

  It is suicidal to have something without knowing it. It is suicidal not to know that you have all it takes to either build a bridge to cross the deep and stormy waters of life or at least swim through. You must dare to go beyond the norm, feasible and visible to achieve something extra than the ordinary. Don't allow yourself any excuse to remain ashore when you have all it takes to launch out into the deep to catch bigger fishes. Follow your heart and circumstances will follow suit.

Enlarge your heart enough to embrace the needed change to live out your greatest self. Subscribe only to ideas, principles and traditions that resonate with your inner drive. Only work and walk with people whose passions align with yours. Never get too used to how good it has been to lose touch with how better it could be.

   Even putting this write up together wasn't easy. I had to write in a highly mosquito infested, poorly ventilated and poorly lighted room in the middle of the night. But I just chose to be motivated by the inspiration to write and ignore the discouragement of the circumstances at that time.

Listen, if what you have now is not what you desire, then make what you have now a raw material to create what you desire. Refuse to yield to the suggestions of settling down for the comfort of where you are now and respond to the beckoning of your natural inclinations to navigate through the hazy and gloomy circumstances to a world of new discoveries. FOLLOW YOUR INSTINCTS!

By Eyafimoni Emmanuel