One thing that I love about our lives is that they are part of a long term purpose. Each and every one of us are part of this long term purpose that God has planned out.
This long term purpose is made up of short term purposes, where each and everyone is created to come in and play their own uniquely defined role in it. It started with Adam and Eve, and then passed on to Abraham, then to Moses, to King David and to the Apostle Paul. All these are individuals who had a small role to play in this long term purpose.
Julius Caesar came in and played his role and passed on, Martin Luther King came into earth and played his role and in the long term purpose and passed, Steve Biko, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo came in and played their roles and passed on. Miriam Makeba, Nina Simone and Fela Kuti came in and played their roles and passed on. Our very own great grandparents and grandparents played their own unique roles and passed on.
Like a relay race each and everybody runs their designated piece of the track, they run as fast or as slow as they can, sweating it all out racing against the possibility of failure…and once that race is run (no matter how fast or slow the pace was, no matter how much ground the pacing has covered), they have to pass the baton.
And now the time has come for my generation (and I) to play our role in this long term purpose…to grab the baton and run…Our time is now, It is now our time. My body/physique, my abilities, strengths and weaknesses have all been borrowed to me in order that I may fulfill this purpose.
There will never be another time or opportunity for me to be the best that I can be, but the current time. There will never be another stage for me to display how much I can do, to express my talents and stretch the rubber of my potential but this stage.
I say this because there exists a deeply entrenched belief in some of us that we can let go of our opportunity to board the train of time and another will appear for us to make our way to the land of success and greatness. We believe that we can waste time and catch up with it later. We purposely let this train of time leave without us and hang on tightly to the false hope that another one will come and take us to our next destination en route to 'Purposeburg'. But let us not be fooled or become victims of our own illusions, because the mornings are shorter, the afternoons are much quicker to fall into the night and the night is in a race with the morning… it is true my brothers and sisters we are visitors on this earth.
They say: Procrastination is a thief of Time.
In the Business world: Time is money.
Therefore as the (maths teacher would say) procrastination is a thief of money. If anything procrastination steals off the ground of greatness to be covered, and adds more seconds the stopwatch. Procrastination has its hands in our pockets, stealing in cents (cent by cent, rand by rand) millions of rands worth of the “success” we could achieve. Procrastination is like a thief in the night, terrorizing slowly and smoothly the people of purpose…and he must be stopped.
The only way in which he can be stopped is if the people of purpose can greatly appreciate their present and dedicate their lives to completing all tasks as early as possible. His hands can be tied by mass declaration to execute all tasks as and when they arise and not close to their expiry date. If anything procrastination will be hung in front of the masses, for all to see, if we could appreciate that we are living on borrowed time and leased bodies that house our possibilities, the only rent required is for us to make a decent attempt at being the best we can be. I hope the rightful owner of time and the landLORD of our bodies will be patient on us…because as we toil everyday in the field of our lives, we sometimes fall short of the rent money, paying only a percentage of our BEST…
Our time is now
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