Light The Candle, Keep The Fire Burning

Blacks dominated many arenas including sports. Basketball - Michael Jordan, golf - Tiger Woods, boxing - Muhamed Ali. Singers, rappers, musicians, actors, anything and in many other areas and fields. Too many to mentioned.

America took 300 years or more to get here with a black President Barack Obama whose middle name is Hussein and is a christian and where Barack means "blessing" in Swahili and has relations with Asia while growing up in Hawaii.

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King said: "I have a dream".

There is a Chinese saying - a journey of a thousand li begins with the first step.

Many people struggled for a long period of time to come to where we are today just by having a hope, even just a glimmer of hope. Since then, the cold war between USA and Russia has ceased, the Berlin wall has come down, apartheid has been lifted.

Whatever stage in life you are at even for things which are seemingly impossible, do not lose hope. Keep up with the struggles and if you are right and have the right values, do not change yourself to be like the rest or morph yourself into the circumstances and be overwhelmed by it. Do not allow yourself to sink into the depths of despair and be like them or the circumstances that demands it. 


If you are a single lighted candle, you will light up a dark room. A few more lighted candles would add to the brightness. Darkness is not a condition that can be made, it is just an absence of light just as hatred is an absence of love. If light and love glows, darkness will be reversed and hatred destroyed. So keep the fire burning and not let it be snuffed out. 3 months, 3 years or even 300 years from now you may not be around to see it but you would have been some of the heroes and heroines that have made the world a better place having been here. You only pass this world but once, do not waste the opportunity to make a difference.

If you have forgotten to smile due to the burdens of life, the drag of work or whatever conditions that you are facing, it is just for lack of practice. Everything in life needs practice to make perfect. Rememebering to smile or listening to your fave music would set the endorphin in your body and mind working and endorphin is a chemical that makes people feel good. Have yourself more helpings of it, it is free and nobody can wipe off that smile on your face except you. This can be infectious and contagious and would in turn rub off on those you meet or are around you. We are our own greatest enemy.

KC & The Sunshine Band sang: "Smile will bring a sunshine day!"

Anyone who smiles immediately becomes better looking, more handsome or prettier. I know some would say, if you were in my shoes it is not easy. But if you were to allow people, circumstances and situations to upset you and lose yourself then you are set up for a life of misery because these are everywhere.

Have this acute awareness to radiate from within and practise it. You will be surprise how things could change for the better.

A genuine smile can diffuse any situation.

So smile often and if you like laugh and let it out freely even if it end up in guffaws.

Come see me to exchange for smilepoints.

Light the candle and keep the fire burning!