ALBUMS: WHAT IMAGES ARE YOU SAVING?


ALBUMS: WHAT IMAGES ARE YOU SAVING?
C (2018)                  CHIBU NDUBUISI                   21/05/2018 WEEK 21

   “To the man who suffers from jaundice every image is jaundiced” 


Peace be upon you.
Have you seen a man so positive and optimistic about life? I will show you a man who sees problem for every solution. I will show you a man who has been defeated by the albums he has saved about life and goes about educating others on how to be defeated. When our leaders complain about poor medical facilities and still go abroad for medical examination, clearly explains this position.
Do you have a journey that needs to be embarked on? Move speedily, because life is not about exodus but entry. Not about looking backwards but moving forward and having an image of possibilities about how tomorrow will be better than the “good old days”. The problem is not about traveling but arriving, not about dreaming but backing it up with concrete actions. What are the variables that form the basis of your opinions? On what pedestal of convictions are you convinced? The contention is not about the images that conjures up to you through events of personal experiences but the interpretation such events represents in your life.
In your journey, you will find examples of people who will tell you that they have travelled the entire world over but have never learnt how to arrive by offering answers towards helping a man in need.  The question is not about traveling, but about the nature of images you are traveling with? It is about the sympathy and empathy towards your fellow being and not about revenge and viciousness directed towards them.
It is about seeing bright spots in very dark circumstances. It is about casting down probability images with possibility images. It is about casting down barriers of prejudices built up in our hearts. It is about wronging the wrong images already conjured up in our mind over the years that were inimical to your survival. The answer is not about traveling but the renewal of your mindset. Bob Marley advised that we must “emancipate our self from mental slavery none but our self can free our minds “. You cannot free your mind when the wrong images have been clogged up there.
The road will not always be linear. The images will not always be beautiful even if technology has enabled us to reduce noise on photo images. It’s not about noise reduction in the images but silencing the noise in our souls to hear the little things that require to be done, the little errands that requires to be fulfilled, the hunger that needs to be eradicated, the jobs that needs to be done, the productive policies that needs to be enabled.
Nevertheless, you are at liberty to explore life to its greatest pinnacle and echelons or to dive down into the lowest ebb with the nature of images you build up in your mind. It is not about seeing the big pictures that needs to be captured but the little actions we can capture now to have a better image of the world.
Ask about Kevin Carter and you will understand what the image he captured did to him.

Peace be with you

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