It was Romanian-born French playwright, Eugene Lonesco who christened life an ‘abnormal business’. His philosophy has many implications but I will draw out what got my attention. The word ‘abnormal’ put me into deep thought and this gave me a fresh approach to life.
Sometimes we expect things to be normal and to always take the known procedures. But life does not always drive this route. This explains why the race is not to the swift according to Solomon David Jesse.
I have seen the strong loose battles to the weak and this has added more food for my thoughts and I arrived at the conclusion of Eugene Lonesco, “Life is an Abnormal business”.
We need to approach life with this philosophy. The philosophy of business unusual. We need to be creative and flexible enough to know when to change strategies and plans.
Plans are funny things according to John Roger, “without them, we seldom get to our goal and when we’ve gotten to our goal, we look back and realize we haven’t gotten there according to our plan”.
What lessons should we therefore draw from John’s statement, I believe the lesson can be summed up in the statement of Peter McWilliams, “we must be willing to make a plan, follow it, and when better options arise, let the plan go”.
Great achievers will always reveal they had to switch at a point in pursuit of their dreams. One of such men is Bestselling Author, T.D. Jakes who said, “don’t be traditional but transitional”.
A man who is not given flexibility will abide in the congregation of failures. The journey of life is a journey of abnormal encounters. The only permanent thing in life they say, is change. We must be prepared to change strategies when occasion demands. Parents would agree with me that some molds of raising children seem worn out because times have changed. I still see parents apply some ineffective disciplinary measures on their children. If a strategy doesn’t work, try another. A wise man once defined madness as doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Don’t be mad, face life with some sense of flexibility. Adapt to your circumstance. This is the Chameleon philosophy. One of the major actors in Christian history, Paul of Tarsus who applied the chameleon philosophy said ‘I became a Roman to the Romans so I could win them over’. If it worked for Paul, it will work for you.
Happy weekend!
From All of us @ YOWICAN, Akwa Ibom State
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