This Is Why We Need Courage to Expand Our World

Size does matter

As a child, I used to think of the world as an enormous place whose outer bounds blended into the cradle of the Universe itself. Simultaneously too big to fathom and grasp in its magnitude.

Attempting to comprehend the size of the world was like my attempts to add +1 to the largest number I could speak, a futile exercise.

Why? Because I was beyond the point when a number becomes too big for the imagination, too abstract and meaningless.

Perhaps that’s why I couldn’t wrestle with grand concepts such as abundance or numbers such as infinity and so settled for an interpretation or rather a neat concrete imitation instead.

My imitation of the world became my bubble of existence where school, family, church and community defined the edges of my being.

I grew up with mixed messages from adults who would say, on the one hand, work hard and dream big because the world is your oyster, and on the other, well, we all had dreams like that when we were young, but you soon grow out of them.

Consequently, my world would grow and shrink in relation to my conversations with myself and others. Gradually, the dreams I would use to test and stretch my outer edges began to calcify as I became conditioned with how I saw the world.

My repeated thoughts and limited exposure to possibilities outside my reach led to cemented beliefs, chasing goals which reinforced my conditioning. As a result, I lost, forgot and gave up on my dreams and became like the cowardly lion in the Wizard of Oz who lacked the courage to believe, let alone follow his heart.

Interesting to note the etymology of the word courage stems from the Latin word for heart, ‘Cor’, Originally meaning “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s…

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