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Sir,

Many times we wade through life not aware of our strengths. Some of us are just flotsam in the ocean of life, doing what life presents to us without taking much thought of our strength and putting it to work for our benefit and the benefit to mankind.

When we are faced with problems, it seems like it is in our nature to solve them using our easily accessible strength. It becomes a habit or attitude of a muscular man to be quick to solve problems using his muscles. When there’s dispute or misunderstanding in his constituency, he may have less patience to solve the issue by negotiation.

His mind will point him to his muscles and will be quick to fight because he is bodily able. The ego will be as if saying, ‘Come on now! Can’t you see you have the physical prowess and you can beat the hell out of this person’? Similarly, the guy who carries a bayonet or gun as he supports his happenings or going about his daily activities every day, when faced with opposition, he trusts his weapon and may be heard saying: ‘I will shoot you!’ or ‘I will stab you’.

Anonymous

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A man with a lot of money itches to use his money to buy his way out of his problems: He will buy the love of a woman or those within his social range; he may buy his way out of problems he behaved himself into. When it’s time for elections, he buys the votes.

He relies on the strength of his purse, you see! Sometimes, if not often, a man who is an athlete and or gifted in sprinting, may easily use his legs to run from the slightest provocation. That’s his strength. The mind instructs him to rid himself of the problem that way.

I am sure that within each of us there’s a deeper voice beckoning us to go a certain direction of strength in our lives; this voice speaks to our pursuing that which we innately love and demands us to run with it.

That’s the ultimate of our lives. Let the artist do art; let the musician do music; let the poet do poetry; let the nurse tend to patients and the judge dispense justice righteously.