"I alone cannot change the world but i can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples; -Mother Teresa.
Life has so many phenomena that by careful observation would make us be the best of ourselves ; one of what is 'ripples'. Ripples here , are simply sustained effects. it is really no news that our years of life on earth are just a few , but we really could live much longer. we could live our lives such that our death is not our end ; just like stone dropped in a lake , it's effect is still being felt on the surface while it sinks for bottom.
many of us today, and the generation to come would easily recall name's like Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mary slessor , Nelson Mandela , Martin Luther King Jr to mention just a few, while people much closer to us are being forgotten. these men and women, and many more in our contemporary times, have simply made impact that in decades and centuries to come will keep making ripples like a positive feedback mechanism.
it is worthwhile to know also that the degree of our impact is what determines how big and how long our effect will last. A pin and a guy-ton textbook will sure create much different levels of ripples effect. but even more, the ripples that will last eternal are not the ones made not in a large environment or even a system but those made on the minds of people. such effect will become a culture passed down from generation. what is life lived if there is no life influenced positively; what is influence positively if it fades away?
we may not be able to affect to whole world all by ourselves, after-all we cannot fill it all by ourselves either but just like the match that cannot burn the whole bush by itself, we can start by lighting one leaf at a time, that one leaf than lights another ... In no time we would have a whole tree on fire and lesser time, a fast-spreading inferno threatening to even burst beyond it's supposed boundaries. there is no much power in you and I if we touch one life at time beginning with ours.
An immeasurable amount of potential is really in every one of us; we can be more than all that we wish and all that we dream and this would require so much audacity, so much courage. Thomas jefferson said Óne 'man with courage is majority' .Courage to speak up, courage be oneself, courage that would influence others, courage that will make ripples!
A perfect example remains JESUS CHRIST ! Existed on earth over 2 millennia ago yet he still lives amongst us today!
'Whatever you do today, do it for tomorrow; today will surly not last'
Realist Akpiri Godwin Justice aka Gwizzy .