Inspiration

Television.

 

That square box that reveals the world on just another unbelievable level. It’s after effects are rather deep for one to try and define or describe. I am a T.V fan. Every time I am free and my daily schedule doesn’t have me running around assignments or proposals or doing sit ups, cooking or whatever else, I sit and watch T.V. Among many things that the telly contributes in my life, one that sticks out like a sore thumb is inspiration. I am aware of all the detrimental effects it has on one’s mind, hence I am selective of what I entertain on the line ups. I have mastered the skill of selective everything lol, selective listening, watching, reading, selective everything.

Here’s the thing, many of the ideas we come up with are either going to end up on the newspapers, Facebook time lines, twitter handles, our blogs an or even the T.V. many also come from all those platforms. When we achieve anything or even fail at something, these platforms give us an opportunity to share with the world to either inspire someone, teach someone our lesson or just brag. Today I was inspired by the T.V. I am writing this in bed at 10:44 in the morning because for the past three days I have been down with the famous spring entrance flu.

Most of my mornings (thank God to my awesome timetable for having afternoon classes all week) I spend watching T.V: Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer and Joseph Prince in that order. Now here is why I say today the telly inspired me. I watched all these people live their dreams, fulfill their callings and reproduce themselves. Then it hit me, that’s the main reason everyone else on T.V is on there, they are doing just that. It is a platform just like the teachers in the classrooms, the prosecutors in the court rooms, the nurses in the hospitals and so forth.

Any platform becomes a home when what you are doing there is your life’s purpose. It becomes second nature. It becomes almost effortless and blissful. This made me aware that we are as responsible for our dreams as much as we are responsible for executing them. All these Pastors play a huge role using the black box as their platform just as our celebrities do to teach, admonish, alter and even improve our mindsets (completely depending on what you watch and how you interpret it all). Some things I watch echo in my mind for such a long time and their meanings make me perceive life differently.  Not all of us dream to make it to the screens but the point I am trying to drive home is that, inspiration comes out of it and that should say a mouth full to us about any other platform we espouse as our dream.