The Life Theory (Life, Systems, Processes and Consequences/Results) by FreeMen Pasurai

This hypothesis takes introspection into what an individual faces on the onset of birth to death. It is how an individual faces and tackles down life situations that determines success or failure

a) Life

 Life entails the coming to life of an individual from the mother’s womb. The moment an individual is born, he/she finds a world with its systems, processes and consequences of actions. Hence the born individual has to conform to the predetermined expectations of a lifetime. Why predetermined, it is because the society/family that the individual would live in, has its own norms, values and beliefs that the individual has to follow. At birth, the way someone is born sets the tone for life but does not decide success or failure. Some are cursed at birth, maybe by blood lineage, their immediate family or even parents, and some are blessed and accorded greatness by their immediate family or parents. Ever heard of names like Shupikai, Nhamoinesu, Hardlife or Ropafadzo, Success, Tanaka..etc. Ever heard of a mother shouting, zidofo, kushata saBaba…that’s the tone for life a parent can set for an individual.

Another aspect of life is that, when an individual is born, the place and way someone is born shows what kind of life that individual would pursue maybe up to self emancipation or for good. Born in Chivi, someone grows up in Chivi, learns in Chivi, marries in Chivi and consequently dies in Chivi. That’s the tone of life that birth may set upon an individual. 

b) Systems

 A system denotes a structure. Therefore when someone comes to life there is a system already existing maybe ever since time immemorial. This system is political, social, economic, legal, technological and ecological.  The way someone fits and responds to the systems in life determines success or failure.

The political system of the day, determines the volatility of the environment and the peaceful nature of how someone will start off in life. Here, what comes to mind are the refugees and asylum seekers. This wandering life is because of the political systems of the day. The social system of the day depicts the core values that an individual has to inculcate and go by. Society has the power to label individuals and alienate them from processes and the necessary social needs. The state of the economy also plays a pivotal role in the success of an individual. The economic situation has adverse and positive effects on an individual’s ambitions. Hence the dexterity to weave into systems of the day and manipulate opportunities brought forth by the systems differentiates failure and success of an individual.

c) Process

 The ability to follow laid down procedures and to meet the requirements is the most important aspect of this life. In whatever we do, there is a laid down course of action to be followed, be it legal, social, personal or organizational. Success of an individual in our societies is judged by the ability of an individual to meet the minimum basic requirements. The most successful people are those who meet the maximum requirements. Each and every aspect of our lives has stages to be followed. Defying these stages, denying their existence and failing to meet their requirements emanates into what our society terms failure. The route or course of action to success is not a one way, but processes are part and parcel of the road to success. Be it in business and academics, they are processes, prudent man who listen to their call of destiny take heed of these and defy and deny failure.

d) Consequences/ Results

Whatever man does, be it a sigh or a blinker, this has its own consequences. The way a man responds to his situation at birth, to the systems he becomes exposed to and to the processes to be followed in life determines the concept of success. Deviation to the laws of the land leads to apprehension. Failure to meet the set standards emanates into failure. Not taking heed to the politics of the day leads to more than what a person bargains for! All the actions a person takes have consequences positive or negative. Therefore a man should be aware of his actions and their consequences. The ability to respond to the consequences in a favorable manner also decides the caliber of a man you are. Worst consequences/situations in life do not need surrender but a brave face and heart which are able to conquer and alter the bad into the good

Conclusion

You know your birthplace and your family, you know the life you have led ever since birth, you have experienced the systems of this existence, processes of self establishment and consequences of your actions, hence deviance or conformity will determine your legacy in this life!

Stay Inspired

The State of the Mind, The Next Step & The Palm of Our Hands

The power to change our circumstances lies in the the state of our mind, the next step we make and what we touch with the palm of our hands . Everyone of us at the point of birth has a distinct gift to the World hidden in the palm of our hands, which comes to reality by virtue of the state of our mind and determined by the next step we make every time. Not even one of us was born with the palm of our hands wide open, without a state of  mind and a step to make! Hence state of our mind and the person we perceive ourselves determines how we keep the World In The Palm of Our Hands, the things we touch and the steps we take.

 That power to be whoever we want to be, that strength to change our circumstances and our fortunes lie in the state of our mind, the next step we choose to make and what we touch with Palm of Our Hands. Conquerors of Destiny are people with the right state of mind which makes the right steps and touches the right things!

Wherever you are today, whatever you are doing and whoever you are with, it is not a mistake to regret but an opportunity to shape your tomorrow thus your destiny as long as you have a positive state of mind ready to make right steps and to touch what changes your life for good..Stay Inspired!

A Black Man's Heritage: From Dust An African Story

A Black Man's Heritage: From Dust An African Story: From Dust: An African Story I have always intended to write a biography of my life in chronology. S o many attempts I have made, in po...

From Dust An African Story

From Dust: An African Story

I have always intended to write a biography of my life in chronology. So many attempts I have made, in poetry and prose but emotions have always got the better of me. Why must I write it now, what have I achieved in life, what legacy would I leave behind if tomorrow never comes for me, and who would want to know about my life and read this trash. These are some of the questions that have always discouraged me from writing. Be as it may, a poem I wrote some years back on a stashed piece of paper, as a 20 year old entitled ‘Why Do l Write’ gives me the courage to write and to endeavor to put pen to paper with words that will defy and scorn time. I wrote, ‘Death shall come a day and these words shall be the immortal me’.

So the story goes and the dream lives on, this time without pen to paper but keyboard to screen. How times change!

In the follicles of my hair and the ventricles of my heart, one question that I have always had in mind, is what does it take to be successful in life because is there a place for failures in life. Who recognizes their efforts when society at its macro and micro levels casts into eternal damnation those who are failures and perceived to be failures? The reason these questions will always linger in my mind is because, who would want to read a book by a failure in life? Which journalist will ignore the winner of a race to rush and question the last finisher? Which prudent Professor would make an opportunity cost of his or her time to peruse pages by a school drop-out? Which wise parent would purchase and give his/her child a book by a loser in life? A Professor in a Bollywood Movie remarks, ‘no-one remembers the one who comes second in life!

With such questions in mind, l realize that this self interrogation is a mental discouragement that demoralizes millions of people. The personal background that lays the base for mental strength and self belief is a yard stick measure of how someone chooses to pursue a dream in life. Talking with a friend (I only remember it now) I once stated that our backgrounds are the major force that downtrods people. Shakespeare wrote some are born great, some achieve greatness and have greatness thrust upon them. For those who are born great, the efforts for a better life are far less and different from those who struggle to achieve greatness and those who fight for greatness to be thrust upon them.

Frankly, I have always heard stories of young people with great academic potential but at the end of the day all the brilliance comes to none as the background will work against the individuals. Why do l talk about academic brilliance? For those whose lives are stuck in the dreaded forests, deep into the vleis and plains of the African plateaus and panoramas, far from the tarred roads and the sounds of the modern society, in between the valleys that never dry and rivers whose sand flood them in dry seasons, education has always been the salvation rope ever since the days of Lucifer Mandengu in Charles Mungoshi’s Waiting for the Rain.

My Grandma, as old as she is, has always told me of how she wanted to attain education only to drop out within the first year. She has always lamented how pained she was, when her children shunned school. Even my mother, she has always regretted her father’s decision to let her drop out due his patriarchal values that the girl child was meant only for the kitchen. Education as l have understood it, offers redemption from the realities and hardships of life. Kilometers and kilometers away from the villages, has always been the set up of schools that some of us attended (though well after independence), this being a metaphor. For you to attain education, you have to strive hard and face the challenges. For those who choose to sleep until sunset and abscond, neglect to write homework, heading cattle will always be the first and last option!

This in mind, has taken me thus far, though my sun is still is rising. The people I have met in my life, the journeys I have walked, the books l have read, the life l have lived and these words lm writing, are all because of Grade 7, Form 4, Form 6, college and university. My friends from Grade One, who chose to shun education and the contemporary entrepreneurship gospel, are in the doldrums at the mercy of the economy. I’m reminded of a classmate when I was in Form 2. He made a decision that, instead of pursuing school up to Form 4, its better he starts “looking for money” and in 2years time when we will be finishing Form 4, he would have made enough monies to live a good life. So sad, when some of us were going for Form 4, the classmate was going for Border Gezi Training. What became of him, both we know.

Why do l write so inclined to education, l write for those who share the same background with me, those born disadvantaged with only one option for total emancipation from penury and damnation. Those who if they are not at school, the sounds of bells, birds and whistles are what their ears are subjected to. Those who can’t sleep when Busvumani has disappeared in the jungles, those who know what it means when the rains do not come,  those who see no hope for a better life without being literate to comprehend the Queen’s language! So is my story, the story of a black man whose hopes for  a better life lay at the detriment of history orated by Grandma, the story of a black man’s heritage whose inheritance is nothing but a piece of land with a few round huts and a head of cattle (to be shared).

 

TO BE CONTINUED

The Other Side of Me: I'm HumanToday is not EternityNeither tomorrow ...

The Other Side of Me: I'm Human

Today is not Eternity
Neither tomorrow ...: I'm Human Today is not Eternity Neither tomorrow Destiny Lest l be mistaken for a Heartless Man I'm human, rationale, loving and kind ...

I'm Human

Today is not Eternity
Neither tomorrow Destiny

Lest l be mistaken for a Heartless Man
I'm human, rationale, loving and kind
Lest l be judged a Hopeless Man
I'm not deprived of the Inner Circles of Life

I'm human with a Divine Soul
Time tested l will Disapprove
Judgements laid upon Me

Wish if all my friends would be here....and join me