'Disruptious' Awakening!

'Disruptious' Awakening: We all naturally have the tendency to remain in a state of rest or be in constant motion even if it is getting us nowhere. It's like the very nature itself enjoys rest or motion! But getting somewhere (a great and good place) is more rewarding than the motion or the rest. We all need what I call 'Disruptious' Awakening to constantly assess our progress in life. We must consciously CREATE 'Disruptious' Awakening to avoid what John Wooden advised against here: "Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress."
Let's say, Hello to Excellence, as we daily  strive for Progress!

  

The Surest Way to Excellence!

There is ONLY one SUREST WAY to Excellence: DILIGENCE! All other ways always lead away from the way, in a way, and will in no way lead up way, when walking down way is always our way all the way!
Let us all Say, HELLO TO EXCELLENCE, diligently!!
Up way to Excellence all the way!!!

KNOWING AND DOING.

I am tired of knowing,
I want to start doing!
I am tired of dreaming,
I want to live my dream!
I am tired of talking,
I want to walk the talk!
I am tired of wishing,
I want to be willing!
I am tired of hoping,
I want to be the hope!

HELLO TO EXCELLENCE!!!

SWEETNESS IN SWEAT

SWEETNESS IN SWEAT

Sow your seed, always,  on a fertile soil

Do not be afraid of getting your hands soiled

Despise not labour and cease  not to toil

Let work boil your blood and your food boiled

There is sweet in every drop of sweat

With a calming effect of a work cloth that is wet

Strive for your own bread and others’ do not covet

Whether by tilling the earth or creating words from alphabets

Dear friend, I challenge you to task your brain

And from mental work do not  ever refrain

Allow not your potentials  to go down the drain

For you’ve got all that is required for life’s gain

The reward of sweating is sweeter than honey

It gratifies the labourer with satisfaction and money

It sweetens each night’s sleep and gladdens every morning

And brightens our path in life’s  weary and dreary journey

© 2014 Caleb Agboola Fabiyi

2014: YEAR OF EXCELLENCE

2014: A YEAR OF EXCELLENCE!

This is, for us all, the very year

In which golden crown, we’ll wear

When barriers to success, apart, we’ll tear

We shall push mediocrity to the very rear

Excellence, more than ever, to us, will be near

We’ll tune our ears only to good news, to hear

It is a year to banish worry, anxiety and fear

This is the very year to put our lives on top gear

A year to hold our inner treasures tight and dear

Our dreams, aspirations and goals, in mind, to bear

Till we, shall all say, a resounding ‘Hello to Excellence!’

ABC OF A MEANINGFUL LIFE

ABC OF A MEANINGFUL LIFE

A.   I  am alone but not lonely or abandoned

B.   I have boundaries but not bound

C.   I am contented but not complacent

D.   I am determined but not desperate

E.   I am excited but not estranged

F.    I am focused but not foolish

G.  I am goal-oriented but not godless

H.  I am happy but not heady

I.      I am independent but not indispensable

J.     I am joyous but not jesting

K.  I am knowledgeable but not knocking people down

L.   I am loving but not lusting

M. I am motivated but not meddling

N.   I am noble but not naïve

O.  I am optimistic but not obstructive

P.    I am prosperous but not pompous

Q.  I am qualified but not quarrelsome

R.   I am resilient but not rude

S.    I am sober but not sad

T.   I am tenacious but not  trepidus

U.   I am understanding but not undeserving

V.   I am victorious but do not victimize

W.I am working but not worn out

X.    I have xylophonic heart but not x-ray-phobic of my character

Y.   I am yearning but not yawning

Z.   I am zealous but not a zealot.

An e-mail to an Elder!

AN E- MAIL TO AN ELDER

THE CRIME OF RACISM: NO RIGHT COLOUR NAMES FOR THE WORLD'S DIFFERENT SKIN COLOURS!

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caleb.microlabs@gmail.com	May 16
to wengerjm

Dear Mr. Michael R Wenger,

It gives me great pleasure to write this mail regarding the above subject matter that I know you hold dear and near to your heart.

Let me start by quoting from your BLOG: "I have become aware of the pain that well-meaning white Americans inflict on people of color, often without knowing it, and I have come to recognize the richness that awaits those with the courage to embrace our nation’s growing diversity. Yet, I also have come to understand how much I still have to learn about race in this country and how much I will never be able learn."

I read your BLOG about your Memoir and the excerpt from it with a great delight. And I must commend your new and well-informed attitude towards the so-called 'people of colours'!

Sir, I guess you are 71, from my own calculation? Though age is more than mere numbers, I believe you are old enough to advice and educate the 'white' community all over the world to have a rethink and a rebirth of new and good attitude towards the so-called 'black' race and the so called 'people of colours'

Now, when it comes to "how much you still need to learn about Race....", I will like to bring your attention to a few things you may want to look into. The above subject of my mail can make a book title, and I must say, I will be highly honoured, if we can co-write such book together - title can be modified!

I like to make some assertions: the term 'white', 'black' and 'yellow' races that I learnt in my Social Studies Class in Junior Secondary School (Junior High School) and that people of the world freely use today is a misnomer. As I' m growing older and wiser, I now realize that, for want of knowledge of naming the colour of the different types of skin colours that God created, we erroneously adopted 'white', 'black', and 'yellow'. These are three different colours adopted by mortal men to describe the different form of skins created by the Immortal God who has his own divine purpose for making it so! Funnily, bearing in mind that white itself is a colour, yet, the so called 'white' men refer to people of different colours as 'people of colours' I ask- is white not a colour? Are they not also 'people of colour white'? Also, is 'white' skin really white? Is it as white as snow? Is 'black' skin really back? Is it as black as coal? Is 'yellow' skin really yellow? Is it as yellow as a yellow sun or as yellow as a yellow flower? I just imagine how the 'white' person and the 'black' persons on the pictorial design of your Memoir will really look like if that's how they look in real life?


I just want to say that we have more than three types of skin colours and it is fool-hardy to try and group the world under three racial colours which results in Racism that has forever endangers our world! And this racism is a punishable crime which will not be punished by any earthly law enforcement agent but by an heavenly and divine law enforcement agent.

However since man is fond of classification and differentiation, I think the people of the world need to call a world conference and come to an intelligent conclusion of the real and right colour names of the different types of the skin colours of the whole of human race, if we must classified them!
Here is my own humble submission: the colour of your skin does not really matter to me: what matter to me is the colour of your BLOOD, the colour of your BRAIN, and the colour of you HEART! If by chance, the world's Medical Scientists can find out if the whole human race has the same colour of Blood, Brain and Heart, maybe it is time to have a rethink of our racial prejudices!

I therefore suggest that the following be ingrained into the brains of our kids from childhood in the world's Educational Curriculum:

1. NOBODY IS INFERIOR OR SUPERIOR TO THE OTHER PERSON REGARDLESS OF THE COLOUR OF THE SKIN.

2. NO SKIN COLOUR IS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE OTHER.

3. NOBODY SHOULD BE JUDGED BY "THE COLOUR OF HIS/HER SKIN, BUT BY THE CONTENT OF HIS/HER CHARACTER", as Martin Luther King Jr. yearned for in U.S before he died.

4. THERE ARE MORE THAN 3 DIFFERRENT TYPES OF SKIN COLOURS IN THE WORLD, AND THE CURRENT SKIN COLOUR NAMES ARE NOT CORRECT, THEY ARE MISNOMERS!

In conclusion, I believe you can use your current position to influence the thinking of a lot of people in our world today. I pray that God will continuously give you the required courage and divine strength to do that and much more.

I sincerely look forward to reading your reply to this mail.

Best of Regards

Fabiyi Agboola Caleb,

Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Mobile: +234 803 508 3656.

Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

 

After reading this post, if you want to comment about it, please kindly send a mail to, caleb.microlabs@gmail.com

 

 

NOTE: Michael R. Wenger is the Author of the Memoir, MY BLACK FAMILY, MY WHITE PRIVILEGE: A White Man’s Journey Through the Nation’s Racial Minefield, published in 2012 by Iuniverse inc.