River Series (Contd)

Hi everyone, I am still continuing on the issue of the river. In my last blog, I highlighted what a typical day for a river looks like. This week we'll look at how this process is affected when the river forgets its source and its relevance to you.

How is this process affected when the river forgets its source…..and how is this related to you and me?

1.) When a river forgets its source (in reality, the different sources), it means the rivers does not take contributions from meaningful tributaries anymore. It has isolated itself from the supplies that ensure its existence. Though the river is still flowing, it is not being replenished and that spells disaster.


YOU: In the early days when you’ve decided to forget those things that makes you you…. things will not look bad at all… You are still as intelligent as before, still as rich… the jobs still keep coming… everyone still keeps applauding you. In fact, there are times you’ll tell yourself … “It’s not as hard as I thought it will be”…. In carefully crafted lines… under your breath… you say “I’m not lonely, I’m just alone”……
A fact is, you are not being replenished and that spells disaster. A young promising athlete will read about other successful athletes, go to training night and day…. and in a short while (after a few years)….the medals will start coming in. If at this point, this before young, but now old athlete decides that training does not matter anymore and that the coaches are rip-offs… then it won’t take long before the self destruct button gets activated.
Life does not entertain complacency. Martin Luther King Jr. said and I quote
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
Are you a dead man walking? …. Or simply put ….are you on the way down?…..check yourself.


2.) Along the way, these things now happen

a. It still carries the fishes and other aquatic animals with it…they may have reduced in number…..but what the remaining ones do not know is that due to no fault of theirs, their days are not just numbered, but the count down has already started.

YOU: Not just will you continue to live life as a normal person in the early days; you will also be given responsibilities as before. Your friends will still come to you for advice, and as before like the river, the fishes of life will still look up to you to transport them from where they are to where they are suppose to be. One thing they will most times not know is that…. You are running on empty…..and if you don’t realise early enough, as you go down… you are not going down alone…. The echoes of your fall reverberates in the hearts of those who put their hopes in you.

b. Disappointment is on the way for as many people who use the river for different purposes and like wise, disappointment is on the way for as many that put their hopes in you...... (To be continued).

Evaporation is part of a natural cycle..... Learn how it matters to this dying river.... .All next week and Mother's day Special.... Stay Paged.