‘ME, MYSELF AND I’ ON THE JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

Beautiful sights, beautiful sceneries, simply breathtaking! That’s what I see around me daily. But, why am I just seeing such beauties around me. Have I been blind or I have simply closed my eyes? Well, at first, I thought the answer must be blindness. Not physical blindness but a deliberate closing of eyes that leads to blindness. On a second thought; this can’t be it. I pondered awhile to know the reason for this, and lo and behold I found it’s from the heart. Since all these years, there has been infinite possibilities around me, great people and finest of the kind. What could have been the cause? I found out – everyday I rush through life, never caring to enjoy the beautiful gifts placed in my paths, when the gifts were picked up, never bother to open the wraps. Therefore, I groan through life everyday and cry – no beauty around; no good anywhere.

Treasures everywhere, opportunities abound, possibilities are limitless if only I had taken time to see. If only I had opened my heart. Daily, we go through life in a rush and carry about in a limbo. Great beauties are wrapped in the unlikely cloaks and wraps. The day I started seeing these beauties; I realized I have missed a mass. Then I asked myself, what blinded my heart. What enshrouded my sight? To my dismay, I found out its ME, MYSELF and I; No one and nothing but just these three pronouns.

I have parents embodied with wisdom and willing to share and give a bit of themselves. I said “nothing for me from you people. You’re just an old bunch of two lovers still living in the century you met”. I have friends, not one word of grace to them only to use them as a yardstick for comparison and competition. I measure daily my progress through the lenses they offer. I saw an old cabbie, not a word of thanks after the ride. I said within me, he’s just an old fool that never took advantage of his youth. I saw a man in need of help, not my penny to give, anything I make is for, me and me alone. I saw an orphan smiling at me; I said “how could you smile, seeing you have no one”. I saw a folk truly in love; I said, “How can you love when you have nothing but love”. I saw an advert asking for volunteers, I said, “how can I volunteer when the government is there”. I saw a soul going into ruin; I said, “How can I help as he has made his choice”. I saw a pauper singing aloud, I said, “How can you sing when you are so poor”. I saw a lad looking at a fall, enraptured by its beauty beckoning me to look; I said, “I will only look if fall would put dough in my pocket”. I saw a lass pursuing her dreams; I said, “How can you dream as you’re only a woman”. I saw a group praying to God, I said, “how can you worship seeing so many evils”. I saw a nation going into ruin, I said if I can only get chance to partake of the cake.

It can only be ‘ME, MYSELF and I’ alone. Yet, as I struggle to make life for me, myself and I; I found out the more-- unhappy I am. I kept on like this for so long, till I get to the end of my wits. I ran to an old sage, an advice to seek. Sage said, go to your parents and ask for help. I sought out my parent who gave this advice. Look within you, you will see so much possibilities; look around you you’ll see so much beauty. Lend a helping hand and you reap much happiness. Speak words of grace and you will get hundred fold. Smile and give the love in your heart as there is so much to give. Contribute your quota and stop blaming the government; and know you are the government. Pray to God and joy will abound.

Here I am; all the advices have taken. Here I am amazed at the beauty around, the possibilities within and the strength for more and this note is full of ‘I’s’ but it’s the ‘I’ on the journey of discovery!