Grow towards Your Destiny

Life is a demonstration in play around us. Lessons can be learnt from everything around humanity and even beyond. You must know what you want, follow it and know your place. It is true that you were born to do great things but remember that you were not born to do everything in this life.

Before we can talk about motivation from other people, we can always look around and learn motivating stories and change our lives. Motivation is all over. There are indications everywhere pointing to you on how you need to learn from everything around us.

One day I visited my grandmother in the village, she was excited to see me because she knew that the next day I was going to help her plant maize in the field. She had soaked maize the day before I came so when she was welcoming me, in her heart was the excitement that we would finish planting the maize the next day. When we went to plant the maize in the morning, some maize had actually germinated. I asked, “How can we plant seeds which have already germinated, wont the newly germinated seed be suffocated in the soil?” her answer was, “They will not be suffocated, they will turn to follow the light even if  we plant them outside down.”

This response shocked me, I had totally forgotten to remember that it was a principle my biology teacher labored to help us understand, the principle of Phototropism and Geotropism.

Geotropism is a disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ. Geotropism can also be defined as an orienting response to gravity. Phototropism is an orienting response to light. From these two words, I was enlightened to understand that the seed doesn’t worry which direction you plant it because the roots always know that they follow gravity meaning they go downwards and the stems will at all times follow light meaning they will go upwards.

You cannot blame the world, you can’t blame your government, follow your niche, and you are created for greatness with or without the government, without or without a good background and with or without money to start with, meaning you don’t need money to always make it in life, sometimes people who you didn’t even know will sponsor your dream. Your place is success. Fight for your light like the stem while holding tight to the ground like the roots.

The roots are always positive geotropic and the stems alike are always positive phototropic. Life will not always give you what you want, you have to go out there and get what you want. Follow your destiny, pursue your purpose, your true self but before you do that, know what you were born to be.

:: Olly Moonga

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