THE UNFAZED WILL

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We owe every strand of our muscle and flesh to God. We oftentimes sweep tragedies underneath and taking adversity as just a rite of passage, sometimes things we experience are the proverbial “last straw that would break the camel’s back”. When you feel the burden, the toil, the pressure, and the heartbeat increasing alarmingly, and the ground beneath curving in-you’re running the risk of going soft in the head. It’s that time when you question the purpose of life, why you exist, why things happen or misshapen while for others’ seems perennially on the fast lane, working perfectly- like the smile of God. Many things by then are funny when they aren’t happening to you.

The world order shifts abruptly when we least expect. Colleagues, friends and even family could at times be belligerent and arrogant. Adversaries could plan day and night to take you down with infatuated hate, business deals go sour, life’s ineptitude could tilt the scales on how you live, your targets could be missed, you could be a victim of an abusive affair, a botched marriage, a failed exam- name it! That fresh moment in melancholy when you see that life’s purpose is no longer useful and its objectives are nauseatingly reversed. Courtesy of all the ups and downs, whether you are a pauper, a professor, a business mogul, atheist, royalty or anything. The experience not only leaves a bad taste in the mouth but churns stomachs, too. When your stratagem has failed, you cannot allow the sepulchral mud of the dead to besmirch the spectacular mind of the living.

It is through the intricate personal experiences I noticed life doesn’t always give what we want. But it is only how we handle our moment of pressure that begets that one biggest break. The best thing God gifted us is the will. I read certain book I stumbled upon mysteriously called The Science of Getting Rich. Wallace D. Wattles postulates that when you want to get something, you only need to use your will power upon yourself. That, you do not have to use your will to conquer an unfriendly deity or to make stubborn and rebellious forces to do your bidding like breaking a glass when you are angry. The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will prosper because you will make only positive impressions upon substance, and you will neutralize or offset them by negative impressions. For instance, if I wanted to deal away with poverty I don’t have to get pictures of poverty into my mind but pictures of wealth, abundance and possibility into the minds of the poor.

I go through a lot daily in my growth and at times when the hill is no longer ascendable, or a spate of anger rushes through my nervous system, I take a few moments even in oblivion and whisper something to God. After that prayer comes a certain inner strength, and renewed hope- that it’s gonna be alright, that everything will work out, it always does unless we lose the will. The complex melodramacy of life’s intrigues could at times overwhelm to the point I question God, or, ask myself what if there was no God? How would I have gotten through that desperate moment?

My fellow soldiers in the struggle, let’s not lose our willpower, because it’s always darker before dawn. I wish you good tidings in your life’s endevours. Alluta Continua…