Arise, clear your head child.
Wipe your eyes and open them wide;
Get to see all which your laziness and pride would hide from your sight –
cos there are still mountains to climb and beyond this valley, there’s no waiting lush or green side.
Today’s the day you start this trek
And I stand here to warn that you do not make this spotlight your highlight.
To succeed, conscious efforts from a conscience unscarred will be required – it is the only way to rise and to stay in motion.
Treacherous obstacles will threaten your progress, no doubts, and as you go on your way, negative things high lords will say; the kind that will leave you smoldering in great pain.
But you have to let positive energy flow through you, and feed the ground beneath you, one step at a time.
As you go, do not forget the weight of the bones carried on your back in the pack you slung over your shoulders as you left home.
Never forget that more than a few chips and fragments and whole skeletons collected in the wake of disaster, you left home and moved out in search of greener pastures.
These greener pastures lie in wait, no doubts, but you have to bury those bones first. Let them rest in peace, so you can finally experience release
Breathe deep son because the journey before you is not a short one.
More like the ones before you stepped foot on the land of dreams; it will be hard. But it is a passing hell; that much I can tell
To the end, you must endure. Be sure to remind yourself daily that you are good enough and that you meet the requirements of the casting calls.
You have to believe in yourself even when believing becomes a tasking chore. Frailty, they say, is the flaking frame of a loser on the floor, so you should never beat yourself up when you fall.
A warrior outnumbered and faced with the mountain does not go asking to be cheered. He just climbs and does not stop climbing.
He collects precious stones as he climbs to ward off pursuers; precious stones I choose to call experiences.
Do not dwell on them tho, but you have to treasure them and learn from them because the experiences which we sometimes ignore loosen our grip on the things that can make us the adored.
Finally, relent not. Constantly look for voids and fill them; where there are numbers, contort, become a letter.
Passersby will tell you it is okay to be distracted. Get a side hustle they will say; when this doesn’t work, try a look-alike.
What they mean is grab a shovel, dig a grave and dig it deep. Upon that site build a keep; a bed in place, with sheets kept neat, more like a hallowed ground for when you fail.
See, the moment it ceases to be it, it no longer is it.
They say there is a destination; a place at the summit, I say there is only a point – a point where happiness, fulfillment and life meet. It is the point where precious metals earned along the way becomes meat for your table.
Now at the gate, I hope it is not too late to realize that greatness comes with a prize. Live or die; no one will be remembered for what they did not become.
For what this is worth, know today that in life there’s no sign that says “proceed with caution”.
So seek pain, take chances, switch lanes, live untamed, and fight hard.
Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it is not there. Being better than you were yesterday is one step closer to the point.
And if you die trying to produce value, go down with great rejoicing – because like a wise man once said
“something must kill a man” and in the end, “all die na die”.
CHINA TORI 