Inspirational Quotes for the WEEKEND

By Charles Leyman Kachitsa

Taking the pen to write for the first time this year, knowing it has to be the first time for the year past has passed never to be lived again, is exciting. Anything new has that association of being exciting and the New Year 2024 is no exception, it looks and promises to be an exciting year if we all agree. We need to agree to move forward together, agreeing each day as it passes on to the next to usher us into the next month and eventually to another declaration that this was a year well lived, expecting another one for that is order of nature.

One of the traditional things with the start of the new year is the drafting of the plans to be fulfilled in the new year. Some people call such a plan, \’New Year\’s Resolution\’. It has to be a resolve list of things as it is supposed to initiate action. In life one has to graduate to newer things never experienced before, otherwise to remain on one stage for too long a time goes against the nature of things which all follow a pattern. Such a pattern is not only predictable but follow a stringent obvious path consisting stages of birth, growth, maturity and death. A phenomenon true with all things in this world, both living and non-living.

New year resolutions have categories. Some people\’s category demarcate the new year plan into personal, career/ business, relational, spiritual and societal sections. While others set them into two types of financial and non-financial plans. Yet some plan their resolutions into such categories as short term, medium term and long-term. No matter how you have done it, the most important thing to remember is that ACTION is the magic word in all you do, which entails that these plan should not only be on paper or in your mind, but they have to be acted upon to produce the desired objectives results.

Also you need to set times when you need to review the plans, revisit them to monitor if the path you are on is steadily leading to their achievement or indeed if you are lost. It could also be that full of dreams, the resolutions you might set at the beginning of the year turn to be all unrealistic, therefore reviewing them time and again is ideal. Otherwise, wishing you all a Happy New Year!

The quotes this week are from a book which title could make some thing of financial wealth, yet it propagates richness beyond that. I am sure that the selected quotations below from this book, will enlighten you to one or two life lesson in this new year. Read and enjoy:

FILTHY RICH by Manoj Raithatha

\”So, growing up in such an environment quickly opened me up to the importance of having a faith. Despite the fact I would have described myself as a Hindu, I found myself fascinated and profoundly moved by the Christian belief that God humbled Himself by taking on human flesh and dying on a cross to save humanity. From my perspective, the cross sounded like the craziest act I had ever heard of. I mean, why would a creator die for the created? This was certainly a very different kind of God to the Hindu deities I knew of.\”

\”That was the last time I would ever see Jorgen. A few years later I would get a letter from his sister saying that he had passed away. I was shocked. Cancer had taken him. I had no idea how she had got my address. I called her and she spoke about how I was just one of many who had been deeply impacted by meeting her brother. His life had been relatively short, but its influence had been been huge. What blew me away was that this man had been taken through the mill and somehow had got through the other side mentally unscathed. I think Jorgen had committed the rest of his life to making a difference by sharing his well thought-out philosophy of letting go and living freely for the moment.\”

\”Something deep within me had changed the day my girlfriend left. I had believed in the \’happily ever after\’ story, but that had proved to be nothing but a lie. She had her reasons and I am sure they were valid, but the underlying hut was there and would lead me down a destructive path for many years, as women simply became objects of desire as opposed to individuals with hearts and emotions. I could write a whole book about all those miserable experiences and the pain they caused, but suffice it to say, I messed up.\”

\”Recently, I had come to appreciate that everything has a life span. I wasn\’t getting any younger. At present I was relatively easy on the eye, but there would be a time when I would lose all the hair on my head and look anything but trendy. I knew I had to milk it while I could, and sending out the press release was part of that decision. And that was the very reason why I justified spending money on fine suits, like the one that was getting attention at this photo-shoot.\”