Why I keep on keeping on
Filed under: How Zimbabwe can be better, Inspire & motivate, Zimbabwean diaries
Two life changing things happened to me in 2007. In March I collapsed and gained consciousness in a hospital bed. In April, the company I had worked for almost five years shut down. We did not receive a single penny. All this happened at a time when things were taking a turn for the worst in this country. It was not a good time to have bad things happening to you at all.
Yes, there were moments of despair. Tell-tale echoes of remorse and regret. But when I gained consciousness in that hospital bed, I said to myself- I will not die, I will live. That became my rallying cry. I heard it over and over in the stillness of my mind. It was a bright light that illuminated the deepest recess of my mind. I nurtured that strong will to life. And guess what, the ground is not yet above my head.
The company I worked for, a newspaper, which was always struggling right from its inception, lacked a similar resolve and it never reopened. But I am still here. Despite all the trials and tribulations I have gone through, and all the hardships that I have watched my country go through and forced many of us to endure, I still remain hopeful. I still retain my faith in humanity.
Gandhi once said: ““You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” This is how I view our life, and time on this earth, as a vast ocean full of possibilities.
So, yes, we will encounter obstacles along the way and face troubles from time to time. But from my experiences in particular in the past year, I have come to know that even during the darkest of nights, stars still shine brightly- you just have to know where to look and look hard enough to the light. I know for a fact that the worst of times eventually pass.
I have experienced first hand what Edgar A. Guest in Things Work Out meant when he wrote: “But somehow, as day always follows the night,/Most of our troubles work out all right.” They always do. There are times when it might seem that they never will, but believe you me, they always eventually do. And so, no matter how narrow the path, strait the gate, I have learnt to keep my head high and just keep on keeping on, knowing that for as long as the ground is not yet above my head, I will overcome and triumph over adversity- after all, “our troubles work out all right.”
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Mary Oliver once wrote…
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves…
…Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
I’m glad you see you have found a new outlet for writing. Keep it coming!
Jikinya
I’m really inspired by this article. Sometimes you think that you have no strength to bear the weight of things, then you read a story like this and realise that you can find the strength inside you if you want it.
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