LEAVE THE NIGHT FOR THE NIGHT
Any flimsy boy who is heartless enough can kill a lizard, however, the mighty pride of the jungle does not fall except at the hands of seasoned warriors, seasoned warriors whose eyes have divorced sleep to record the patterns of their preys. Warriors whose bodies have become a landscape of scars from countless encounters with the wild. Any man can choose to wallow in the filthiness of mediocrity, it is an easy act, an effortless hypocrisy, a rootless facade.
But I know you don't want such life - you don't want a life of cluelessness, wasted and inconsequential existence. If this is true for you, then you must come to know this, a calm ocean has never produced a great sailor; that adversity is the training ground where giants are formed; you must be aware that there is a kind of stretching that makes a star.
Insanity was once defined as the mind frame of expecting differing results from similar actions. it would be tantamount to madness to think that we can get ahead of others by following exactly the same protocols that they observed. The Journey to greatness begins at the milestone where many have fainted, burnt out and refused to move on. Greatness begins in the journey that ensures after reaching the relative comfort that many people have settled for, the same comfort that many would die to get. Greatness begins with dissatisfaction with the mediocrity of the status quo.
Any foot soldier can rage under the guidance of the burning sun to the applause of an entertained crowd, but when the night comes, under the shadows of deafening silence, the training of a legend begins, without the advantage of the sun, he must master his weakness to become the strength. When others snore in a sound sleep, the Knight is born in secrecy, to no applause, to no accolade, to no cheering crowd. Gradually courting the night, the knight becomes the night, efficient in disadvantages, he can scale walls in utter blindness. He alone is the terror upon the city walls, the sole guardian of the slumbering state.
To none else is the secret of state committed to, to no one else is the life of the king entrusted but the knights of the nights. This is a call to you all called but still meddling in civilian affairs, this is a call to awake you to join the forging of mighty knights under the intolerance of the great daring night. For in the days to come only the prepared will survive the onslaught of mediocrity by the tsunamis of change. Only the Knights will survive!!
But if you still prefer the comfort of your beds to the demands of destiny and my pleas fall upon deaf eyes, then you can still continue to leave the night to the Knights.
If in these days of pleading you do not barricade your arms to storm the nights in sacrificial toils when the treasures of darkness begin to reveal themselves to the laborer of dust, leave the night for the Knights
A wise man once said that the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war, so when that day comes when the onslaught begins, remember to leave the night and your life at the mercy of the knights.
Selah
- Adetimilehin "Vic'Adex" Inioluwa.
WRITER
Adebo Adegboye David
EDITOR (PUBLICITY AND EDITORIAL UNIT DESK)
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