“Our life is a book
that should not be colored with pretense, disguise, pride and lies, because as
long as we keep coloring it, it will look attractive but unfulfilling.” – Victor O. Otobo. You can never be
your best, neither will you be able to fulfill your life purpose, achieve your
dreams and attain your goals when you mask the issues in your life.
It’s easy to go
through life wearing different mask, so instead of we boldly dealing
with the very issues that is limiting us from becoming the person we are
aspiring to be in life and is making us not to fulfill our purpose, achieve our
dreams and attain our goals in life, we keep them covered up, pretending that
all is well when they are not. Has
someone ever greeted you: good day sir/Ma, then you responded by asking: how
are you? Only for the person to smile at you and reply by answering: Fine! Yet,
things are not ‘truly’ fine with the person, or is it a ‘binding’ routine to
say: ‘fine’ to every how are you? The problem with most of us is
that we are too concern with our outside: our image, what people will think and
say about us, than our inside: what is really eating us up. It will
surprise you to know that a vast majority of people are living on the outside,
but dying on the inside.
It takes a lot of
courage to deal with matters of the inside: our attitude, character, pride,
motives, behavior, ego, the things we know that are not right, therefore it
becomes a lot easier for us to mask them up, and make them look good when it’s
obvious to us that they are not. A lot of people have a mask for every
situation; they are ‘professional pretenders.’ They have a mask when they are
at home, a mask when they are at work, they have a mask for every place they go
and situation that they are in, they know how to clothe grief with a false
smile, how to make black reflect white, how to make rottenness emit
fragrance, and bad looks good when it is not. This is not about
developing an attitude of victory; it’s simply about dealing with the very
things that is keeping us limited, those things retarding our life, smoking our
dreams and making us live an un-purposeful life, it’s after you have dealt with
them, before you can develop an attitude of victory.
article by: Victor O. Otobo
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