Take a Dive and Drown

Dear lovely people,

I can feel it! My tittle gives you the chills right? I know that look on your face now but come with me… I sat by the banks of the Menchum river one Wednesday afternoon watching sand diggers diving to the bottom of the river to dig sand with their head-pans. A sand digger will inhale air, dive down to the bottom and only show up either with a head-pan full of sand or to grasp for more air before diving again. I noticed that the moment they surface was often when they could take it no more, at that point in time, they needed oxygen so badly that with all the energy in them, they will shoot up and out above the water breathing so fast in order to take in as much air as they could before stabilizing.

One of the sand digger, recounted to me how one day while at the bottom of the river, he had collected enough sand in his head-pan but could not swim to the surface because his leg got stuck among some roots at the bottom and too bad for him, he was already short of oxygen. It downed on him that it could be the end of his life if he did not do something and fast. At that instant, he thought of his wife with their first pregnancy, he thought of all the good things he was planning to do and so with all the energy he could muster, he pulled his leg until it got released from the entrapment. He then swam with all his might to the surface of the water just when he was about slumping from lack of air to breathe. He could feel his lungs expanding at a frightening rate as they sucked in air to revitalize him.

And so it got me thinking, what if people needed success as badly as those divers needed to breathe? What if your daily circumstances and life's situations had so choked you up to the point where the diver found himself stuck below the river with no air to breathe? For sure you will muster enough courage, belief in your dreams, energy, determination and resoluteness to overcome the difficulties so you can swim to the surface of a better life where you will have abundance.

I am sure the sand digger realized at that moment when he got stuck at the bottom of the river that life is one whole big fight, he saw himself losing the battle and that meant a terrible future for his wife and his unborn child, he saw his dreams and plans being flushed down the drain and so he went into decisive action to remedy the situation by not remaining at the bottom of the river complaining and hoping somebody will pass by to pull him out but rather he went at it, giving it his best shot and succeeded.

After all your beautiful dreams and plans have been laid out, you need the adrenaline that will drive your turbo engines, you need success as badly as you need to breathe. You need to take a dive and be drowning at the bottom of the river of your tribulations, transgressions, lack of courage, lack of vision, demotivation, dejectedness then you will better appreciate the value in taking decisive action to swim to the surface of a better life of prosperity. Once there is no sweat, there can never be sweet.