“When is your next
‘motivational’ piece going up on your blog?” I have had to cleverly dodge this
question anytime I’m asked since ‘Who Are You?’ was posted in November last
year. I always changed the subject when a reader bothered to find out. But one
avid reader of my posts beat me to my game and ‘extorted’ an answer from me.
And when I told him I was on a short break, he minced no words in telling me
“it’s a sign of failure”. He went on to tell me why he thought so, but I won’t
bore you with that. Initially, I thought he was jesting, but I was mistaken
when I saw no smile form on his face. Honestly, I felt lethargic writing
anything after that piece as I hadn’t been ‘motivated’ by any
circumstance…absolutely nothing. But his advice kept sounding in my ears each
time I saw him. And I said a silent prayer to God to give me something to write
about, like I usually do after every piece I write.
That motivation didn’t come when I expected it. Well, maybe it did but
I wasn’t giving situations around me the necessary attention they deserved
then. I had arrived home from work one evening and went straight for the remote
control to catch an EPL game. I hit the wrong button which took me to CCTVD
where a documentary on Chinese bamboo was
showing. Even
though the EPL game had started about 15 minutes before I got home, I decided
to spare some few minutes and watch that documentary. I was blown away by what
I gathered that evening, and I’ll endeavour to share my very short musings with
you in the next few sentences.
