I’ve come across this advice on social media, and it’s some of the wisest words I can share with anyone chasing wealth and fame: If you achieve it, that’s fantastic. But remember, no success is worth sacrificing your health. Don’t fall into the trap of working so hard that you lose what truly matters.
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150 years from now, none of us reading this post today will be alive. 70% to 100% of everything we are fighting over right now will be totally forgotten.
If we go back down memory lane to 150 years before us, that will be 1872, none of those that carried the world on their heads then are alive today. Almost all of us reading this will find it difficult to picture anybody’s face of that era.
Pause for a while and imagine how some of them betrayed their relatives and sold them as slaves for a piece of mirror. Some killed family members just for a piece of land or tubers of yam or cowries or for a pinch of salt. Where is the yam, cowries, mirror, or salt that they were using to brag? It may sound funny to us now, but that is how silly we humans are sometimes, especially when it comes to money, power or trying to be relevant!
Even when you claim the internet age will preserve your memory, take Michael Jackson as an example. Michael Jackson died in 2009, just 13 years ago. Imagine the influence Michael Jackson had all over the world when he was alive. How many young people of today remember him with awe, that is if they even know him? In 150 years to come, his name, when mentioned, will not ring any bell to a lot of people.
Let us take life easy, nobody will get out of this world alive. . . The land you are fighting and ready to kill for, somebody left that land, the person is dead, rotten, and forgotten. That will also be your fate. In 150 years to come, none of the vehicles or phones we are using today to brag will be relevant. Biko, take life easy!
Let love lead. Let’s be genuinely happy for each other. No malice, no backbiting. No jealousy. No comparison. Life is not a competition. At the end of the day, we will all transit to the other side. It is just a question of who gets there first, but surely we will all go there someday.
Unknown author (2022)
Memorial in Ghana-sculptor: Kwame Akoto-Bamfo
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These poignant words with the author listed as Unknown are often associated with a reflective and forward-thinking perspective about legacy and human impact.
The memorial in Ghana referred to is The Nkyinkyim Installation, a powerful artistic tribute to the victims of the transatlantic slave trade. It was sculpted by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, a renowned Ghanaian artist. His work is located at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and is recognised for its deep emotional resonance, depicting chained figures and commemorating the struggles and resilience of enslaved Africans.
Graeme Dinnen
ResourcesForLife.net
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