Something Optimistic This Way Comes
Now, don’t get me wrong, there still is a very clear distinction between optimism and forcing
your brain to channel itself towards beliefs of the impossible. So, let’s just get this out of the
way, no, you will not grow wings and become modern day Icarius just because you so deeply
and direly believe, but if you were to ask me whether you will reach heights and sore as high as
the eagle with the right amount of work and just the right way to channel your efforts, my answer
for you will be a stern-no questions asked-quick YES!
I say all of these things with no intentions to burst your bubble if you thought you could fly, or
thought that good things come easy. Rather, this is an effort to bring the modern-day man back
to full consciousness and to reimplant the true implication of the very much-loved phrase ‘Good
things come to those who wait.’ This is something I grew up hearing, something I even threw at
people’s faces when I got something they did not without working as much as they did, but it’s
also something that, as I get older I’m beginning to question.
And no, I am not dismissing the importance of patience that the wise ones before me were trying
to instill, but I am suggesting that maybe our understanding of it has to change just a little bit. An
increasingly adapted mentality nowadays is that just believing something will happen for you,
and waiting for it to happen is enough to be on top of the world, a blatant lie. We find people
relaxing in the face of obvious turmoil and retreating when their life is falling apart right in front
of them all in the name of optimism and patience, both of which hardly work that way.
A patient person understands that in waiting, there should be knowledge of effort and a lot of
work put in for something to work out. An optimistic person understands that it is not pessimistic
to be realistic, it’s smart. So, let’s be smart and work because in reality, with the right mindset,
it’s easy, actually.
By Nokutenda Dube