My Thoughts on "Thoughts and Imaginations"

I believe that God gave everyone a brain because He knows that each one needs one, and we begin to fail utterly and pine away in penury because we have utterly failed to use our brains for the primary purpose for which day we are best stored in the first instance. Therefore everyone has a brain because everyone needs a brain.

• It is a divine imperative on each individual to maximally use his or her brain while still alive. 

One of our primary duties as individuals is to use our brains by ourselves, and not to allow others use them for us or compel us to make them redundant. This is the height of Education: the empowerment of the individuals to produce noble thoughts; and this is the real essence of civilization - the emancipation of the individual minds from primitive tendencies to think noble thoughts.

• The man ceases to live who loses the ability to think before acting; and he is a slave to the one who does the thinking for him. This is modern slavery. 

 Every individual has the onus on him or her to develop a programme for thinking and for imaginations. This is a debt everyone owes himself or herself. An attitude of deliberate thoughts and creative imaginations. A place for deliberate and creative thoughts and imaginations. And also a notebook or a diary  or a jotter into which to think and to capture his or her thoughts. 

Creativity is birthed through a habit of productive thoughts. That's when the candles are kindled in the mind, and sparkles of illustrations are unleashed into the innermost parts of the mind. 

The implications of this is that the hidden potentials of the inner man are brought to the fore, mediocrity is relegated to the rear and Excellence is enthroned to reign supreme. 

Woe is that generation whose folks have got much time for many things but little for prolonged, deliberate and creative thinking and imagination. Have you seen that generation whose myriads of its folks, especially the younger folks, engage in deliberate productive thoughts and imaginations? The doors of Excellence and creativity shall never be shut in it by the day, neither shall she know any night at all.