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Reflections (Feed-backs & Feed-forwards)

 Feed-backs & Feed-forwards


Do you ever think about how you got to where you are and where you are going? Or are you more worried about your past (what you did and what you didn’t do) and future (what you should be doing and what you shouldn’t do)? There’s a phrase that says, “ you are what you eat,” but I believe that we become what we feed, whether backward, forward or sometimes leave things down to do nothing or throw them up to see how far/higher they can get.

The past is a result of what we do in a moment, today, which is determined by the tick of a clock. It may be 10:45:11 am but 10:45:09 am is in the past. History however, is a derivative of the past or it doesn’t only determine the past but the origins of an aspect or object by reference of the past. Now, have you pictured your life as a non-moving see-saw, the presence being the pivot and you controlled by a treadmill called the future, which controls your life and its extinction. Not a happy ending right?

 When we reflect on our pasts, we starve our future’s existence and when we meditate on what we want – the future, we give the past a reason to starve. The feed-backs have no better feedback than pain, sorrow and a pounding inferiority complex. The African past may bring all the results of the feed-backs, but the future lies in what we do to change, to bring revolution and rightfully claim what is ours, not only materially but to claim freedom from mental slavery which abundantly exists in us in this age and time.

History reflection is ignorance deflection. When we know where we come from, it is easier to know where we are going. No one can do it alone; no one can make it on their own. I’ve seen my brother suffer inferiority complex just by seeing his brother making it in his home, but rejoices when he sees a foreign man building an empire in front of his house. We are born in liberty and we acquire mental slavery by allowing ignorance to take over our lives, souls, spirits and minds.

"we allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders." - Maya Angelou
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