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Understand
Nachi Aguboshim goes poetic
(Nachi,
like most African Children born in the diaspora
is trying to redefine himself.
He writes with passion and an open mind. Nachi
is an intern at the youth desk of African Echo
media group.) |
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Before now I never really took time to address the importance of the word understand. It is from this word in reference to the everyday life that we live or have lived that I have acknowledge my potential as an embodiment of energy, and with that I have also began to see this life for what it is.
Money, The Work Routine, The Media and the Police, have all been designed to form the misapprehension of what a community truly is.
Money: has us worshipping materialism and status that it brings, with that our spirit is controlled by a piece of copper or recycled cotton. We are lead to believe that without it we cannot survive. And while we fight to get that all so powerful sterling we are diverted from that, which really matters to us, the land back home in Afrokha, which is being brought by other nations.
The Work Routine: though working is important it shouldn’t be as unnatural as this. Meaning that we are nothing but robots working 9am – 5pm, 5 days a week and by doing this day in day out our strength of mind is decreasing. Of course we don’t see this as money is our motivation now, see how far we have come if we can live with no TRUE purpose.
The Media: Is merely a way to inject what is needed to keep us within these confines. Control the mind and then the body shall follow. Understand that your spirit is an entity it should be free not controlled.
The Police: they are here to enforce the conservative views of the government. They most often dominate people of ethnic origin through fear, and through fear control will come.
Systems like these have been put in place to divert us from our true potential, a form of mind manipulation, call it mental slavery if you will. In an ideal world these systems would help by introducing harmony and order into the community in which it functions. However control is powerful by theory and it is deadly in practice, especially if in the wrong hands. And it is that very control that has blinded many people and taken their focus off self-development. My name is Uwadinachi Aguboshim I am Afrokhan not British, though I, much like you have lived here all my life, time has helped me to understand that I can never truly call this place home.
I say this without a heavy heart, as I much like many others have spent far too much time trying to adapt and become accepted that we have not understood who we are as a people and most importantly as individual, our answers lie within ourselves not within this environment.
Remember knowing yourself will aid you in your journey.
These words are not out of hatred as I see hate a waste of an emotion. I say this with an open mind not a programmed mind and as my knowledge grows so does my potential as an individual.
If you think about it, this form of mental slavery, via these systems is very similar to the way that we feed information that we feel would be relevant for your computer. The problem with this is that we fail to understand (there that word is again) that we are people, individuals and we have the right to grow and learn without the subjective and negative influence of the environment that we live.
Though I say this the choice merely remains with you and whether or not you wish to make that change, look around you and ask yourself the question:
‘Is this life really for me?’
When you ask that question be true to yourself if you do that then you should begin to see the truth.
Everyday that we remain programmed we shall continue to live within the man-made confines of these systems.
UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE THE KEY, NOT OTHERS.
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