The World Is A Perfect Set Up

THE LONG BREAK IS OVER! I'm getting back to work Mark your calendars on the 19th of June in UB. Inaugural Empowerment Seminar hosted by Mind Mirror is sending out invites. P250 for the ticket to come spend the hours with one of our best students coming from one of the best Universities in the world.... Well seasoned in their own fields and ready to share with you the opportunities that lie out there and the tips and tricks to be your best. There'll be multiple topics from scholarship and entrepreneurship opportunities to general life coaching. See you there fam

"Many geniuses die undiscovered by the world. You'd think that's sad news, until you learn that many more die undiscovered even by themselves." -Omogolo B. Pikinini I set myself one simple task early in life. I was going to be an explorer, a seeker and discoverer. Not an explorer of the world around but more of the world within. I was going to explore every inch of genius I possess. And once I find every form of it even if it's just traces, I'd develop it to... its full potential. That simple exploration project has had me discover what thousands of geniuses lies in one man. I first met the genius artist in me. He simply loved pencil sketching and playing with colouring books. I would then move on to meet the genius storyteller, the curious scientist, the philosopher, the athlete, the genius writer, the logician, the leader, the servant, the speaker, and my personal favourite the evil genius and the trickster. I vowed to myself that I'm going to visit all these geniuses in their worlds. I owe it to myself to meet all these great men. Most importantly I owe it to them to bring each one of them to life. To give each one of them a chance to showcase their genius even if it's for a split second. In the end the world may never discover any of these geniuses or even think they were genius at all. But atleast they'd be known to one man. And that's all that matters.

"The root of problems nowadays is that when people talk about "society", they are always imagining somebody else somewhere who is not them." -Omogolo B. Pikinini Until the day you learn that you are the society you are always talking about then you'll never hold society accountable. You're the society and the reason society is messed up is because you're messed up. YOU! You're not being the best person you could be, you're not educating yourself ...enough, you're not ambitious enough, you don't volunteer enough etc. You watch people do wrong things and look the other way because it's not your business. Not only are you not doing what you're supposed to, you're also doing many things you know very well you shouldn't be doing. We are suffering from the lazy habit of disposing off our social responsibilities to some imaginary "society." The habit of assuming we're not part of the problem and somehow we are the saints, and everyone else is the villain. The laziness to think and proudly relegating ourselves to nothing but mouthpieces for other people's ideas which we don't even spend a second to think about... And after all this social irresponsibility we give ourselves the right to say "the society" is messed up with a straight face. The right to protest comes with the responsibility of doing something about the problem. And you are part of the problem!!! Put your house in order and put your social circles in order. And stop blaming your ancestors and cultures for the mischief of your generation.

There are illnesses of the lungs, the liver, heart problems, skin problems etc. But everyone acts shocked and embarrassed when they hear "mental illness." The brain is as natural as any muscle or organ in your body. It gets tired, it gets strained, it gets injured, it has infections etc. People will accept and attend to every medical problem but won't do so for the most important system in their body. People have body goals, want good toned muscles, good cardio, smooth skin..., sign up for gyms and hire personal trainers. But we don't set such goals for the wellbeing of our mental body. Most of us are "mentally out of shape" and mentally unfit! It explains why we are embarrassed to let people in there, because it's a mess that we are ashamed to uncover. We'd rather lock ourselves up and hide it, and deny it and assume it'll be okay without help. If you did that for any illness you've had you'd be no more, and that's exactly what happens when you don't attend to one of your organs when it needs you. You've probably seen a doctor for your finger, a tooth, stomach ache etc. So go see a psychiatrist/counsellor for your stress, your depression, your anxiety, your temper, your memory problems etc. Many of us are still suffering from childhood traumas that we have never attended to. Our parents taught us to go to the hospital but nobody taught us to go for counselling or therapy. If you think your finger or tooth are important then surely you know how much a healthy brain is worth on that scale. Everyone is worried about their weight due to the lockdown, but we both know where the real weight is. It's on our mental bodies right now and if there was ever a time when you need to attend to your mental health, It's NOW. #bishopworld #mentalhealthawareness #mentalwellness