My MUSINGS

The Making of Greatness

Just thought I'd share some thoughts on  Greatness with you:

People like to be identified with success and excellence but very few take the initiative and the attendant risks involved in the quest to achieve significance in life. Fewer still persevere to achieve success that others can be inspired by. Whatever the case, as the adage goes, Success has many brothers but Failure is an orphan. 
It doesn't take much effort to recognize greatness when it matures. Anyone can do that because it is attractive. However, not many people are able to or want to recognize and celebrate greatness in the making. It takes faith to do this. But we have accounts of great people who were despised in their early days but sought out much later when their 'season' arrived. 
Influential, Skilled or Successful people did not always appear so in the eyes of their community or even families, But often they had a Spark however dim, and a Vision however hazy, of their Greatness and of the future times when everyone would acknowledge and celebrate them for it. So they stoked the flame, polished the vision and celebrated themselves enthusiastically.

This is why no truly great man is really proud or snobbish. He might just be bored by your belated fawning. It’s your loss for underrating them in the growing days, then trying to celebrate someone for whom it is no longer a novelty.

More to come...