To be an inspiration. . .
Many of us do not really see life beyond acquisition. All we think matters is making money all the way… Our craze for wealth and to amass everything that looks like it is just inexhaustible. While it is not a bad thing to amass if it is done rightly, the pertinent question remains, who have you inspired with all of your wealth and in what positive way have you impacted them?
Being an inspiration does not really have anything to do with being wealthy. You can be an inspiration to another by just being a good person, having good morals, the way you carry yourself in the public, your orderliness, cordialiness, your gentility, peace, happiness, intelligence, firmness, decisiveness, truth, honesty and straightforwardness. You can inspire others with your faith or your courage in the face of difficulties. You can inspire others through your hardwork and determination, the list is so endless.
To inspire is to cause mental stimulation in someone, a stimulation capable of stirring them towards a kind of creativity that can bring about something gainful which has the ability to add value to their lives and the lives of those around them. People get inspired by others when they realise how those idols of their inspiration have impacted others through their good works or the goodness they represent.
Inspiration is a source through which great ideas are born and creativity is expressed.
It is our individual responsibility to inspire one another and likewise the responsibility of the inspired to put to good use the ideas of their inspiration so that those who hear the story of their inspiration may be encouraged to do well as well.
The world will never be wrong with goodness in it. The reason there is so much suffering all round the world and especially in this side of the world is the constant challenge to the act of goodness. That there is failure does not mean that the efforts made are bad but it could be something else, something like applying the right efforts on wrong issues and vice versa. Goodness is the reason many are inspired to do something beautiful, something nice, something memorable because it’s a feeling that is not only soothing but very blissful.
We are at a time where we need to bring everything good on board, to cause a positive change to our system, if we must correct or repair the ills our bad indulgences have caused us over the years. It’s time to let ourselves be inspired by the love that existed or rather that dwelt among us in time past, the love that made us more constructive than destructive, the love that inspired growth over stagnation, the love that gave us courage to want to see a better tomorrow for our children and their generations unborn, the love that gave us the heart then to tolerate our diversities and major on common goals.
Back then, inspiration was at different levels. It ranged from community to individuals or groups of individuals. It was community inspired, when a brilliant child of a poor parent who was obviously threatened to remain uneducated with his talent wasted was spotted, he would be gladly sponsored by such communities to get quality education and attain a life that could make him or her not only live their dreams but be able to do same for another or in other possible ways give back to the community and by so doing inspire more goodness in others, thus creating an atmosphere where people delighted to be associated with good needs and good name than bad. There were individuals who did same to people at their level and caused a positive change in many lives but can we still pride ourselves this much in this regard these days?
To cause an inspiration is to spark, to ignite, to stir another person’s thinking into great birth of beautiful and intelligent creation which is most times humanity oriented. My question now is, have we stopped inspiring others in the good ways we used to or are we doing it wrongly these days? If the answer is no, then I will ask again, what are we doing differently these days to inspire more evils than good in our land?
