WHY IMPOSSIBLE IS POSSIBLE: a letter to all Nigerian youths…
I write this letter to all
Nigeria youths all over the country and beyond. I write this letter with the hope
that it would be read and applied and not read and remain obstinate, and to all
those that are numb to the problems that holds us captive in ignorant without
hope of scaling through to reach to the zenith of our greatness. I write to all
who pledge to their motherland with all their strength to be faithful, loyal
and honest, to serve her and to defend her unity and uphold her honor, making
God the witness. I write to all who holds my country to a high esteem and would
gladly die for its course. I salute all who wants a positive change, who wants
the best for this great nation, who would offer more than their best to the
growth and development of the land. Finally, I hold in high esteem all those
who make GOD the greatest priority to the development of a country.
I was still wondering why
people uses the world IMPOSSIBLE as I surfed through the net. It was 2:15am and
I was beginning to feel sleepy. Just then, I came across an article that made
me regain my strength, the eagerness and enthusiasm I had wanted. The sleep had
disappeared; I couldn’t feel it, not anymore. Was it because of the article or
was it because I got what I was searching for-till now, it’s still a puzzle
that is yet to be solved. Am I the first to see this was the first question
that came to my mind but before I could answer, it disappeared leaving me hopeless.
Then came the second that disappeared just as it came, like the flash of a
camera. I made up my mind to wait for the next but before I could finish my
sentences, it disappeared without even staying for a moment but this time, as
prepared as I was, I heard and I listened. “Do people actually apply what they
read”? This question came to me because with the kind of article I was looking
at and reading without payment was enough to prove to anyone that impossible is
possible.
I read of a boy who at the
age of 8 raced into a burning school house to rescue his elder brother Floyd
who was 10. Floyd died in the school house and when Glenn regained
consciousness, the doctor recommended amputating his legs as he had lost all
the flesh on his knees and shins and all the toes on his left foot. Also his
transverse arch (an important part of his bone) was practically destroyed. The
doctor predicted that he might not walk again. But young Glenn pleaded, he
begged and because he was distressed, his parent would not allow it.
Determined, coupled with hours of therapy, enabled him to gradually regain the
ability to walk. It was two years after the accident. He had a positive
attitude that there is no glory without a story. He knew that the strength was
within and not some iron fixed to the legs. His favorite bible quote, Isaiah 40:31
“but those who wait on the lord shall renew their strengths, they shall mount
up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and
not faint”, shows his strength in God. He could now walk but he wanted more and
behold, he proceed to running.
This same 8 years old boy
with determination and God won the Sullivan medal in 1932. In Olympics, he took
the 4th place in the 1500m and in 1934; he set the world record for
the mile run at 4:06.8 which stood for three years. In 1936, he set the world
record again in the 800m run. This same boy set a world record again in the
indoor mile run of 4:04.4.A boy who knew that there is nothing like impossible
especially when with God.
After reading this, I just
couldn’t stop thinking. I was stunned because it’s just rare to see the kind of
determination Glenn Cunningham portrayed. I flashed back to the day I read a
similar story but this time, about a grown-up who at 32 years was fired;
attempted election to a legislative office and suffered defeat. At 33, he
became bankrupt and at 34, he was elected to legislature. He lost his dear wife
at 35 and broke down nervously at 36. At the age of 38, ha attempted
speakership and lost the election and at 43, he failed Congress nomination.
Fortunately for him, at 46, he secured a Congress ticket and lost the
nomination at 48; at 49, he was rejected for land officer and he lost
senatorial election and yet suffered another vice presidential nomination at
56. He was defeated for senate the second time at 58 and in 1860, this same man
became the 16th president of the United States of America.
I keep asking myself this
question, was he elected just to compensate him for his failures, was he
elected so that he wouldn’t disturb them again, but the truth is obvious.
Abraham Lincoln was determined. He removed the world IMPOSSIBLE from his
vocabulary. His quote, “I am slow walker but I never stop” testify to this.
Martin Luther King jnr. quoted Lincoln in his popular speech which he made at
the steps of Lincoln monument.
Though am convinced at least
with these stories and more, why do you still doubt? Believe me, I have taught
deeply on this and I tell you, nothing can stand in your way to greatness; not
even your parent, your age, your background or your handicap because God has
made you great. To be candid, you have powers beyond imagination and the adversity you encounter is what really
strengthens you. Bob Harrison made it clear that, “between you and anything
significant, there must be giants in your paths”. And remember the observation
of Martin Luther King jnr. that, “the utmost measure of a man is not where he
stands in times of comfort and conveniences, but where he stands in time of
challenges and controversies”. Nothing good comes easy because you will always
have a story to tell at the end, but there is nothing that is IMPOSSIBLE when
you are in alliance with GOD. You can do it if you believe you can.
Now that I have written to
you to the glory of God, maybe, just maybe I wouldn’t be thinking much on this
or better still I won’t be thinking at all because I know you are informed and
will help inform others. TOGETHER INDIVIDUALLY, we can make GREAT things
HAPPEN.
At least NO MORE fast
question to APPEAR and DISSAPPEAR!!!
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