Kings And Queens

Kings And Queens

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
---John Milton

“I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his destiny to sit on a throne but in his blood he was a king. I also knew a man who was the king of a small kingdom, it was very small and his throne very humble but he and his people were all brave and worthy conquerors. And I knew a man, who sat on a magnificent throne of a big and majestic kingdom, but he was not a king at all, he was only a cowardly steward. If you are the king of a great kingdom, you will always be the only king though you live in the bushes. If you are the king of a small kingdom, you can lead your people in worth and honor and together conquer anything. And if you are not a king, though you sit on the king’s throne and drape yourself in many fine robes of silk and velvet, you are still not the king and you will never be one.”
---C. JoyBell C.

“My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:
Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:
Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,
A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.”
---William Shakespeare

Man have lost their ideal identity in the world today, our focus has been diverted to things that would less serve us, which has corrupted the fine purpose of our existence. We have more troubles and worries in our lives more than the peace and joy that should decorate our lives. You and i strive everyday to conquer each other and be above one another, man lost the understanding that they don’t have to conquer their neighbor but do the most profitable and fulfilling thing, check and conquer yourself and you will rule your world as the sun and moon rules over the earth.

I see we need one another, the moment I lose you or you lose me, life begins to lose its sweetness as when salt loses its saltiness. The world stops to go around when our life is no longer locked around each other, everything experience disarray and life is no longer meaningful if we continue to struggle with one another. Insistence in struggle for dominion over one another will bring us no blessing but a curse, a failed humanity.

Every man and woman is a king and a queen who should learn to conquer himself or herself rather than seeking dominion over the neighbor, the royal road to peace in life is to conquer your inner man. To be a true king and queen that you are, you must be ready to conquer yourself because in every man are two men ‘the king and the fool’ and in every woman lies ‘the queen and the fool’. The fool in the man and the woman is in action every time you struggle with the next man or woman to you, to debase them and be seen to have dominion, the king and queen in you is in display when you fight to overcome your inner man and refuse to strive with your neighbor to be the most recognized. I say to you, that you are indeed already a king and a queen; you can only display true royalty when you have succeeded in discovering, conquering, and re-inventing yourself every single day of your life.

I have a friend whose name is Rajan from Nepal; he has been a very nice friend and has a good heart. On a particular day, we were walking and chatting, suddenly i was pushed to ask for the meaning of his name, when I asked him then he said to me ‘Rajan means king’, I was wowed anyway at the meaning and I said to him ‘you are indeed a king’. He then said to me ‘thank you but do you know at first I was uncomfortable with the name?’ I was surprised anyway to hear this, so I asked him why? He replied ‘when i was a bit grown up, I went to my grandmother and asked for the meaning of my name, she said to me it means king, and I asked her why she gave me such name because we don’t come from a royal family and i will not become a king someday, my grandmother replied ‘you are a king, to be a king you don´t have to be a ruler or rule the people or any country, you have to conquer yourself, your enemies are inside of you like anger, greed, selfishness, defeat them and don´t let them conquer you, a real king is one who conquer himself rather than conquering others’ and since then I have been happy with my name’.

Sailing Through The Dark

Sailing Through The Dark

  “The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.” 

---Jarod Kintz

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

---Aristotle Onassis

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

---Soichiro Honda

“Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all go through. The trick is to celebrate the good times in advance of the difficult times. Always remember, good times await you after the difficult times pass….” 
---James A. Murphy

The journey of a man in life is definitely through the dark, we have no idea what the future holds in it for us, there are seasons of peace and celebrations, and periods of turbulence and worries, but through all, we try to survive, get refined and come out alive and blessed, otherwise going faint-hearted, you chicken out of the race, get bruised, broken and covered in shame. The realest way to go about life is to be determined to get blown by the wind but not lose your feet, gather the spoils that came with the storm; pick up wisdom and knowledge from the experience and make it your breastplate as you approach the future.

The world of man is weaved with the unknown, we live to understand its mystery. When a man and woman decide to have a child of their own, neither of them knows what could be the sex of the child and how many children may result from the sexual intercourse? The innocent child(ren) that comes from the union also has no knowledge of the would-be parent. From the conception of the baby in the womb, all human beings start their life in the dark. The foetus goes through stages as the baby is fully formed swimming in an unknown environment and the survival of this innocent baby becomes dependent upon the mother. As life may have it, some babies die in the womb or some makes it to life but the mother dies at or before birth, these are sorrowful events that we pray God forbid it happen. The lives of you and I starts with struggles in the dark bloody bag of life where we pray and wish to escape our one-man world to make it out to the universe, the world of humans where unknown to us are greater battles to be fought and tougher challenges to tackle. We are totally unaware of what we would become or become of us, we are uniformed of trials and woe that may betide us, and we have no knowledge of our victory, success, fulfillment and joy that may have no bound. We are the sailor fully armed by our creator sailing through the dark waters of life who is ignorant of his capacity to sail through even in high winds.

I want to congratulate you and I for coming to the world, i salute our bravery to accept the invitation of our parents, swam in blood for 9 months (more or less) and survived this period, came out to life, amazed as families and friends welcomed us with smiles and laughter, and as innocent as we are, we responded with cry and tears of joy which is our simple expression of ‘oh I made it through the dark and pool of blood to life’. I sincerely want to say to you that even for having gone through that stage and made it to life, you are a victor.