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“As I sip past my thoughts

Mingling with ideas,

That seems to come alive on the pillow

Lost to the will power of fear

I ink my tale masked

Pleading for no one to pull my tail

And unveil my truth.”

 

There is this Shona proverb that I used to hear elders say to me growing up, and I always used to find it funny until it wasn’t. Because I am now grown and the words, they used to say now make more sense than they did in the past. “Kura uone”, meaning grow up and you will see. This short phrase has unravelled my life goals realizing what I used to think is not easy too as I thought. Soon after graduating with Business Management degree with major in Entrepreneurship, thought I would present myself as business thought leader which gave birth to bloated pen the blog.

In the initial stages everything seemed to be on the right path, this was before the poetry bug took over me. With a few articles under the belt and dream organization to foster entrepreneur to rising generation was formed. However, the reality of this organization existing in real life was far from coming through as there were a lot, I need to learn in setting up an NGO like organization. The reason behind this was the fear of government laws that seemed to always been in loop of changes. Not any specific sponsors for the idea made things even worse as I was also starting in life.

However, this naïve outlook to life did not stop me because I was trying to set up a family business before tragic fell upon my family and the dream had to be placed on hold. During that time a lot change me and focus shifted towards needing something consistence. As result the dream was suspended and the thought leadership ambition was place on indefinite leave. One thing that remained was the entrepreneurship spirit as started exploring other ventures without any money.

The lesson I got to learn was that it was easier for me to complain about lacking something when I was growing up than it is to provide myself with things I craved. In the process of that realization, I got to find out that change is not leader or politician responsibility but any individual responsibility. Cause if you wait for leaders to enforce change you will be waiting for so long before anything happens. Politicians made me to see that clearly as often times I was frustrated by their policies, only to discover I am responsible for change that I yearn to see.

One thing I want leave here is that we are agents of change and our lives depend on it. For change is the only true currency that exist in this life than anything else and even biology taught us that cause before adolescent we are the same but during and after it the difference is clear as day. We change into something better but so should our mindset shift as well.