The Passion Newsletter, September Issue, 2019 2The Passion newletter September 2019 | Page 27

TIME, PRIORITY AND INFLUENCE. It’s a common phrase in public addresses and daily life that time is never on man’s side. Indeed, it comes to pass in most instances as it appears, we never have enough of it. Unfortunately, the belief seems to come as a trade-off of intrinsic comfort for unaccomplished feats because we often never keep time in the first place, absurdly never plan for it, and feel it’s enormous at the beginning of the day until it vanishes off our face in procrastination. It becomes impossible to be on the same foot as the time that runs ahead of our lazy being. I dogmatically believe we control time and never the vice versa. I also can’t help believing we usually if not always have enough time for exactly enough priorities we intend to achieve. If each day has specific hours, 24 to be specific, then we ought to have specific activities to accomplish a day. If we don’t, then the limited time ever seems less against unlimited intentions. The sentiments above I tenaciously hold, are born in mind daily whenever I get to interact with the so-called ‘busy people’ in society, I never know what makes others redundant! I have met specifically two kinds that fit the bill; academia buffs and Rotarians, I am yet to find out others. I wonder why busy people continue becoming busier while the redundant ones invariably slip into laziness. If you ever ask yourself the same question, then I invite you to this party to scrutinize and mine into the matter for satisfactory answers. I have learned two prodigious things about the sagacious human brain cultured through experience, with my brain as part of the experiment albeit I can generalize it with significant confidence. To begin with, the most effective brain is a programmed one and secondly; it works with a positive feedback mechanism just as a few natural systems in the sense of thinking. Talking about a programmed brain is an attempt of maximizing the potential and adept to accomplish unimaginable feats. Man developed a computer with superior characteristics he has failed to emulate. The versatility and diligence save for accuracy are at least not absolutely machine characters. They are to man if he works in a programmed fashion as does the machines. A computer never executes un-programmed tasks but meticulously performs programmed ones. The fact is a human brain is most interested and enthusiastic to pursue tasks burrowed into its program and know. It never deploys maximum effort to random activities. The ploy behind busy people adequately consuming the much on their plates is making programs, priorities, and targets which their brains are summoned to. An un- programmed brain keeps roaming into a vast space of intentions. To explore the second, one predicated upon the first, we simply invite our brains to work. One shot at thinking prods the subsequent effort to think further. And since our brain rarely works against our will, an attempt to dormancy calls for the decay of mind. Humans are inherently learning creatures and those around us greatly influence the alignment of our thought wheels. Those people around us greatly make us through naturally unseen portals of induction. The famous inspiration story of an eagle that succumbed to chicken behaviours after being raised by a hen in part lends its self to this phenomenon. As we continuously live around them, we learn from them, and eventually, come to think like them. I am a hen striving to groom among eagles. As it appears at this point, time is adequately available for those that program, plan and prioritize for it. We can accomplish what we have programmed our brains to, but plan and/or strategize as a result of what we think, which is greatly influenced by those around us. Kanyike Andrew Marvin Connect Membership Director Rotaract club of Busitema University, Mbale [email protected] Rotaract District 9211 District 9211 The Passion Bulletin 27