A man once considered life as a case study and after a while he came to the conclusion that if only God could allow man a ‘five minute peep’ into his future, he would learn never to consider himself as a nobody. Another man said the existence of a tomorrow gives us the strength to live through today. All of this summed up tells me that there is actually more to you than meets the eyes. Put in the words of a favourite adage that says “the downfall of a man is not the end of him” but I will add “that is if he falls with his face virtually looking upwards”.
The fact that you might have failed at a point in your life does not make you a nobody. One of the worst things that can happen to a man is the phenomenon called ‘inferiority complex’. This is a self destructive principle that makes you feel that you were only lucky enough to have succeeded especially when you had worked for it. Another adage proffers quite expertly a solution saying “Learn modesty, but never accept that you are inferior”.
Great men who lived in the past may never have been great, if they had accepted that they were inferior. Remember Abraham Lincoln was not the most learned man of his time, but he refused to take ‘NO’ for an answer. Most of them were faced with difficult times and situations such as poverty, strife, and some other odd conditions, but they never refused to give up because they knew for sure that ‘there is more to me than meets the eyes’.
Inferiority dampens the spirit and it never makes you believe that you can make a success out of yourself. The best remedy for this is a constant self assurance of success against all odds. You should be able to tell yourself that life is like a film where all you see at first is hazy conditions and stormy clouds, but it would not last and after it clears up, there is a mansion revealed. Inferiority would never make you see light at the end of the tunnel but rather impossibilities even in te face of exponential possibilities
