Hello Mes Amis,

As far you are here on this great platform, it's shows that you must have written an article or two before; whether short or long, inspiring or other wise, about BCH, the economy, politics, education, life, or random writing, The most important thing is you have written some thing in the past and may probably write another very soon.

So, you may probably know who an author is then. But for the sake of those of us who don't, let me define who an author is;

An author is: The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary  composition.

Someone who writes books for a living; a bookwright.

The above definitions give an elaborate meaning to who an author is. First is that he is an originator, a creator of a work. Let me at this juncture introduce the real ideaology behind the topic. Everybody on this planet Earth is an author! We are all an originator and a creator of a work. Now that kind of work is dependent on who we and what kind of lifestyle we lead.

You are an author and you write on the sand of time with your life and day to day activities. The decisions you make, the choices you choose, and the actions you take all sum up to be the things you write with your life. You create and bring to being those things which weren't when you make certain decisions. Just like a profession script writer who writes skillfully, and like an editor who removes and adds to a publication, you also create (write, add and subtract) what will be read in the hearts of men and will be remembered by people.

Do you really think there is someone who will not be remembered? Well I don't so. Even if there is a person that doesn't have any relative or friend, there are people who he interacts with that will still remember him. Even if for the fact of passing by a street, he will be remembered. How much more when he is know for a thing or two. This made me remember the story of a madman that lives around a locale.

I was in the taxi that day heading somewhere. Some people were in the taxi and were discussing about the various matters. One particular topic got my attention. It was about a madman who was said to have died three days prior to that day. According to them, his name was 'jollof rice' as he was said to always go to the dump hill looking for leftovers and whenever he sees it he will shout 'Jollof rice'. He was said to be very kind to those around where he stays. He was even said to have foiled a theft attempt once although that always made him lose an arm as the robbers cut him on his hand. He was somewhat liked by those around him and they would give him some things. Then one day, he was said to have gone to a gutter to have a drink from the dirty muddy water. He was eating a dirty bread along side the dirty water. Then, one kind man coming from an event, saw him and was displeased about this. So, he gave the madman the food with him which was real jollof rice. The madman took it from him, sat down and began to eat. It was said that after 30mins, he started vomiting and before you know it, he gave up the ghost. Most people speculated that the sudden change in food must have killed him. But that's not the real issue here, what I want to point out is that even a madman was remembered even after his death.

So many people have created bad and terrible things with their lives, some have created good things with theirs. Think about it, you have created a thing or another with your daily lifestyle, decisions and way of thinking. Whatever you have written with your life, that's what you'll be remembered for.

Destiny redefined

One of the major service providers in Nigeria, MTN, gave a new touch to their service providing strategy. They included sending quotes whenever a customer calls using their Network. I hooked on on one of those. The quote goes thus;

Thoughts become actions, actions become habits, habits become characters, characters become behaviours, behaviours become destiny!

So, in a nutshell, what this means is that the basic unit of destiny is Thought. If a person who is supposedly destined to be great in life would be great only if he has that thought in him. Criminals that have been sentenced to death may take that as their destiny but in actually fact, they chose it when they first thought about committing that crime.

They wrote their own destiny by themselves. Let me cite an example from the Bible. The Israelites rebelled against God and asked for a king. God looked throughout Israel searching for the right person who, in our language, will be said to be destined for king. God saw Saul, empowered and made him the king of Israel. He was destined to be the right hand of God and continue to act as the weapon of vengeance of God on Earth but he chose to do contrary. And the result was that God rejected him immediately and tore the kingdom from him. The result was the destroyed his entire lineage including his son, Jonathan.

Now, it wasn't Jonathan's fault to die like that, but another wrote his destiny with actions. Who have you destroyed or helped by your actions and thought? What have you lost or gained by your actions and thought?

It actually doesn't end in this planet Earth only. It continues in a realm beyond this world. A day is coming when all you have written with your life and thoughts shall be read in the presence of everyone. Then you will be rewarded by the content of those things. So, write well, be conscious of your thoughts and actions. For you give account for them.

A big thank you for reading this article. Remember knowledge is power only when you take action.