So I am back to school for Bachelor’s of Architecture. As every school disease, we tend to be comfortable with certain groups of people. Certain cliques. We get permanent sitting positions, and the rest… we don’t want to know!
Meanwhile we don’t want to connect with other somewhat familiar or peculiar people because of various reasons. Maybe they are not stylish, maybe they are not rich-looking…
Maybe they are not of our tribe, maybe they are old, too old for the class depending on our judgements. In due course we prevent progress. We hinder ourselves from broadening our influence, thinking we are playing safe!
We hinder ourselves from our could-be next miracles, the people we tend to ignore could be the ones who understood that topic you didn’t! Those people could be a solution to our problem.
Thank God some are so free & daring that they approach you first!
Let me give a justification for all this; One of my class mates approached me. He loved my art as he too was an artist as well. I pimp phones, diaries and laptops. (That’s to say, I beautify them and convert their boredom into variety!)
The business is a bomb! But it was always sad to see the ink go off all those jackets a week or two down the road. I as an entrepreneur, never felt the satisfaction of my production.
Rumors of a sealer I had heard of. A colorless liquid one could place over the ink and make it stick & protected. But the sealer wasn’t at all in Uganda. It had to be imported making the cost too high for me.
Nevertheless, I prayed on. I prayed I found a solution. This other artist young man said to me, apply colorless nail polish. It works the same. I attempted… And my oh my, it actually did work! O the joy to see the ink last on a gadget forever is so good. Here’s a sample…
Thanks to the young artist who challenged me to breakout and open up to anyone! One of the lecturers had told us to choose groups for a certain coursework. It was evident that everyone was running to the people they were accustomed to!
He then dictated. And used a random format that got all of us in groups that we were quite uncomfortable with. I got to meet different students from my very class. Many I had never uttered a single hello to.
One of them was so brilliant in the Maths of a certain course unit called Structural designs.
Now I’d an entry of getting him to explain that number that drive me crazy during that class.
My point today is; let’s connect with one another. It might not be at school, it could be in the businessplace, at your work place, at church, at the market, at the convention, in the hall, in the coffeeshop line, etc.
Like me, that person could add value to you or your business or your entire life,or you’d be that person, who adds value to the other and bless their lives!
Avoid the negative relationships of course but like my pastor says (and I quote)
‘You are six connections away from your dream!’
That person could be the 1st or 2nd or 3rd or 6th connection to your dream. So, be alert!
Thanks for passing by!
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