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Excerpt from The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

My thoughts?

When such moments happen, challenge your paralysis, take inertia by the throat and choke it. Never ever be an idle spectator at the unfolding spectacle of your demise. Leave that role to other stakeholders who have less at stake. Rather, choose that moment to live. Invoke your agency and combine your agency, self awareness and choice and use these as the energy to create, direct and act out a script you and the world will remember. Then and only then would you have truly lived and even when you have passed on, when you leave, you would still live on in the minds of many as someone who challenged destiny and its vexatious display of arrogance. Become Omemara chi ekweghi and live on in the myths and minds of many as one who refused to go down without a fight.

Noel

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Development and policy analyst with a strong interest in the arts and inclusive social change. Dabbles occasionally into poetry and literary criticism!

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