[Kings & Queens of poverty]

'Respect them, but fear none' [1] we all have learnt. You'll have that shine in time and but when grace falls, great becomes the pain from the laugh at your failure to finish with retirement of the sun. So, to you, what's the shine you've lost in your life? Is it of your doing or by design? The way to you won't be said straight as it is, for truth is an agenda.

What Africa is swimming in currently, a tip no utterance can afford it its supposed solace. The daily attacks are coming from all angles and on the other hand is the long lost shields they keep fighting over as if they got no answer of where and whom to they lost them. How we feel about the 1884 conference, the Arab betrayal through slave trading, together with many other gatherings of like is of no use and significance to them, a worse stair to disharmony to one's inner.

The education we received from that day a continua to self-destruction. Living in a global village but made to pay the price for your innocent curiosity so you find it better rested in diluted inquisitiveness as what suits your kind. The treatment meted out to this humble nation a shame that is unfortunately a trophy of belonging out there. Africans, why are we still ashamed to act out what their project has resulted in us? Let's keep intensifying the taste of their architecture ignorantly back to them. So proud of Morocco over their latest move. It should be loud to the Spanish civilians that it's actually not against them but their government.

Ecuador has for the past 11 days or so being voicing out their disgruntled feeling against rising energy and food prices, though media elected to turn a blind eye on. Examples like these are vivid to you Africa, rise against the tide and rely on your wisdom and strength to make new shields to protect oneself with. Wake up, see how this system of theirs slowly keeps us strewn in generational curse after the other. Africa, cut chasing after the charismatized rhetoric of timeless change for it's not for your today or tomorrow, but for them and their coming generations. Be worried of who you've become after who you were, so as to shape your future generations.

In conclusion: whether you give respect to champions of your poverty design, entirely up to you and your conscience, but their doings had a generational rippling effect on dignity, confidence, identity, self-based worth, etc, as a people, as they through their instrumentation went straight for the crown via a humanomics quadradia against your financial triquadia. And like my brother and friend said "know your why" [2], I then say "Africa, ask to know your why" and you're to know why you're lost unto self, why you lost your purpose, why you lost to false promise, why you lost your possessions; and clawing back your power will be a realized eventuality when children of the soil start questioning all these Kings and Queens of poverty...dp

[1] by copyright control.

[2] by Mr Mohlatlego Mokumo.

[What's important about impact?]

What's important about impact? I've been on a loop mode around this question. Is it maybe I am stuck on something that's not even worth mentioning? I kept asking myself until I decided to jot something about it.

Impact is used in many cases and in many ways. But then, how do you use it in your case? Impact can affect economy by word, act or say, can affect your course of life through an experience or occurrence, can also be a good or bad takeaway, it can be in many ways. It but feels good if it's in you and having a positive effect on the nexts through its possession.

You can find impact in almost anyone and anything. What matters is what one does with that of theirs. You can grow the next person through it, influence a result through it, build a nation through it, and, how one does that remains a subject of importance.

In conclusion: when you think of impact it brings feelings, hopes, future, age, and any other subject attached. This subject is attention seeking but not given much if not none, and reason why, I still struggle to comprehend that. This necessitated by the way governments and business are run, which leaves us with a lasting impact from those results, hence this subject is important.

What impact is, is power, influence and possibility in one. For those who recognize impact for what it is, knows how to use it to gain respect as well as give it to others responsibly...dp

[Life in the normal lane]

Who gets excited when you arrive? What do they say when they greet you? How do they feel when your name is called? It's not a question of boasting or self importance or any of that, but rather about you being the statement sans saying or doing any of the above. It's about presence, about being the center of their craze, the proof that they are important just by your gracing of their space.

None follows what doesn't move, none changes tune for one sans feelings shift, as a personal brand you ought to factor such as you build your aura. Get into the thinner frame of your thicker things and you'll understand what tabloids, social media and those influencers are after. Be interesting to be, to be seen, to touch, to be heard, to think of and talk about. The value of you lies in your carrying of self.

How many times have you been up to no good? How many times were you looked at in a certain way? How many times did they misunderstood you? How long if it's ever been? This should be the staple of your brand in it to be relevant. Try being irrelevant to the normal range you are used to, and do spontaneity for once and trail your log. Think of everyone that you follow, think of everything you want to be, think of nothing you've done before and imagine a totally different you, and you'll get your lane.

Many characters gets lost due to them being fronted through personalities that are punchless. A personal brand is about you and your all, be ready to bare all out there with no shame. The challenge with a lot is their less pressure to their course and allow pressure to their course, and as a result then be diluting their purpose. To connect the two sides to your person, it requires you to know your equilibrium first, else you're doomed.

In conclusion: why should you be followed? Are you a being of worth? That should cross your path when creating you to become what you project of self as envisioned. To the nexts, what are they finding pleasurable of you? If you don't know what people think about you, you're lost. Why do you want to be a brand? Do you want to be emulated? Are you ready for such? How many shames have you dealt with for your chorus of life? Who has let you in on the secrets of that which you want. Life in the normal lane fails interest...dp