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Tackling Reality: September 2014
Author: Moletji. W. Mositsa
Embracing the triumph of
difference and living only to be
unique
Greetings and welcome to this
month’s issue based on difference
which is one of the gifts one
should always appreciated and
cherish in life. Move along as we
tackled and embark on this topic
with the hope that it triggers
something within you.
I believe that all your failures,
luck, achievements, character,
pride, ego, happiness, strife,
ignorance, moral values and moral
conscience make you who you are
and an exceptionally different
figure.
I wished much not to call it
uniqueness before anything else
but rather, first before all, allow
me to call it difference. Difference
is a peculiar element of life which
we are all at luck to possess.
Imagine firstly, a world where
everything is the same, where we
share the same notions and tastes.
Would life be really fair? The
diversity vested within us in ideas
and beliefs, in behaviour and
moral conscience gives us much, a
reason to celebrate the fact that we
are different from one another and
each represent a figure of
diversified ideas and an eye for an
independent way of living.
Difference qualifies you a
monument of personal uniqueness
for it sets you apart from your
brother, your mother and
everyone within your blood line.
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Difference to me I say, is a weapon
you can use to push aside all the
excuses and generational curses
circulating around your family. For
you also are different, stand out to
not shift the blame from your side to
the failures of your the past
generations. Every individual within
every instant generation is the
architect of their own destiny and
should not live up to the expectation
of being an heir of generational
legacies. Your difference means
your uniqueness, it means that you
are designated to achieve a different
given duty per your God given
capabilities and do not let that fade
away as you run astray from your
calling. I figured that we should
celebrate difference for it is an
exclusive package element. Your
passion for singing, you have it
because you are different, that is
why your brother is fond of
swimming rather than singing. Your
generosity and passion, embrace
them, cherish them and marvel for
they make you a unique creation and
give you a rare identity. There can
never be another somebody,
someone who perfectly matches
your character, appearance and
moral awareness. Cherish your
unique identity as a priceless
creation, a God chosen.
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Of course we all go through trials
as part of our day to day life, but
through them all, say from the
bottom of your heart and with faith
that, trials and tribulation may
come my way, tempest and clouds
of thick darkness may be covering
my light but this above all, gladly
and proudly say to yourself, ‘I am
a perfected creation, a
masterpiece’. You are a never seen
before creation and for that, live to
leave behind, a firm foundation of
a ‘good thing’. Live to let live for
your life is fuelled much by
difference. Take pride in your
uniqueness and acknowledge that
difference is victory on a silver
platter. This is for that, though you
are different from your peers in
academic excellence and social
awareness or engagement, you are
a representation of the splendour
of the Creator. You are a story of
possibility, witnessing revelation
every dawn of days that will come
to pass, witnessing His majestic
grace when you get to see the end
of every day.
Every dawn of a new God-given
day, give recognition and
acknowledgement to the fact that
you are sole-owner of that
particular character you possess,
given it channel you to greater
good and preserve not only your
identity, but your dignity and
making you a decent person.
Difference is a victory of personal
freedom, for you to live without
limits and defeat all the odds, all
the way. It is freedom at personal
level for you to spread wide your
creativity and mental capability
and think possibility, positivity and
capability.

2. For you to believe that through
positive situational approach, you
are capable and thus entitled to
attain the possible and beyond such
a measure.
Key is awareness, being aware that
yes you are a different creation and
standing to celebration it through
mental and ideological innovation
and eliminating the comfort of a
rocking chair mentality. Think
different, live different and speak
difference and the world will see
you as such for you are all you live
and speak. A gangster if you live
like one, a pagan if you do likewise
and therefore shall be deemed and
liar if you so can’t help it rolling
your tongue about.
Surprisingly, at social level, be it
within one’s family, community or
social club, difference is being given
the back. So little appreciation has
been given to the fact that every
individual is unique and such
uniqueness should reflect within a
given collective of individuals. Our
difference, perhaps in ideas can at
some stages mean that we get to
contrast the next person’s
perceptions, but let’s celebrate it
anyway. Take pride in it anyway and
carry it around you all along, all the
way. Of course contradictions are
bound to happen and we can do non
much about them. It all comes with
the whole package of not only being
titled different, but really living
exceptionally and uniquely.
Do not be limited by the social
background and the expectation
carried by your peers or the
company you keep. Be extraordinary
and exercise your right of expressing
you difference and not getting to
conform to a certain standard set by
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a certain collective of individuals.
Set a standard that will set you apart,
a standard that exceeds social
expectations. Be fuelled to rise high
above social measures and climb
atop higher horizons. This is for you
are the architect of your own destiny
and every day you live, you are
writing your fate with your own
hand. Should we were all the same,
we would just let a few work their
days and nights out knowing we are
all counted, but difference, what a
wonder you are. Do not fight to be
counted as moving with the crowd,
be counted as moving against them
and persue your own destiny.
Let not your goals be shared by a
collective and persue a goal
according to how your peers
perceive you. Their view of your life
and way of living is entirely
different from your own perspective;
of course they are entitled to their
own opinions. Do not follow the
lead of opinionated ideologies, they
are often not true about who you
really are. Let the spirit of individual
difference dictate what lead to
follow.
I really and highly like to stress the
point of one fearing to be different
because they think difference keeps
them in isolation and thus prone to
being socially rejected. I actually
think it is not isolation, it is
awareness in that the social get to
realize that there exist a hierarchy
and standard of character and
‘class’. You are now set apart and
being rewarded by your noble
character and given a class reception
by trials of life, sorrows and
bitterness. Very much for the perks
of choosing to be different, but truly,
really what sets one so highly apart
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is whether they have with them,
the God ordained spirit that
channels them, that leads them and
that which guides and protect them
from harm and trials. For with him,
we are victors and conquerors.
Friend, I tell you this now; do
not get carried away by the
deluded perception of the public.
Make your own choices and
don’t get confined within the
walls of confusion as you try to
conform to public standards. Be
moved not by the current that
sweeps everyone around, stand
your ground and leave not that
pillar (noble character) as you
race to your predestined peak.
Establish your own pace that
conforms to your desires and
move not as fast as I move, as
your friend moves or a slow as I
move or as does the next person.
We all have different paces for
our own different and sometimes
personal reasons. Do not live to
match the next person’s pace, it
strips you of your uniqueness for
you fail your right of being
entitled to different thoughts and
way of handling life matters.
Follow your own path; create
your own destiny that leaves
behind a firm standing legacy to
last ages.
May the Lord our God guide us
as we seek our lives as people,
who celebrate, embrace and
cherish the gift importance of
being different