By A Leap At 34: Confronting The Fear of Falling Forward By Sulaimon Mojeed-Sanni
Dear World,
Why are you so distressed? In the last six month, 74,565 people have died of the novel coronavirus while 1,341,907 have been infected. Amongst the dead, none would have imagined an unknown virus would have ended their human living, aside the many lessons surrounding this disease, the unpredictability of life and the irrelevance of chasing worldly gains top it for me. Just in days, we were all levelled to wanting to stay alive than wanting to live life. Yet, this is just a minute affliction in what humanity suffers, hunger and homelessness ravage every neighbourhood we know at every point in life.
The last few days has cast the world in the foreboding of fear, drenched in the race against a virus, fighting a war of survival against a disease not easily seen, not easily cured, thus rendering insignificant the global stock of mutually assured instruments of destruction. For the umpteenth time in human history, we are in a war prioritizing science above faith. Yet it is faith in existence that brought us thus far. Here is a war between science and faith, not the faith of enriching self-acclaimed messengers of the supreme being but the faith of destined occurrences of a guided universe on the principles of the singularity of humanity answerable to one God.
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Today, I cloaked three decades and four daunting years, gradually, I am counting years ingrained in experiences, demands want and unfulfilled hopes. In the last four years of my life, I have made decisions with varying consequences, some taken too hastily, others too late, in all, I have few regrets but I must thank God for the mercy to live again even though I sleep every night clothed in the fear of not deserving to wake.
Today marks a leap year for me just as it was around the world and there couldn’t have been a better time to attempt leaping forward even amidst the palpable fears. While some fear the raging pandemic is at the verge of ending humanity, others fear to live in the future created by themselves which I think informed the unguided fear against the coming ultrasound technology soon to disrupt the world as we know it with the introduction of 5G technology and immediate commencement of research on 6G with the capacity to achieve mind-blowing data speeds of around 1TB/s.
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Tomorrow will be different and everyone who survives the world as we know today will do so by manipulating the 3Fs – Fear, Faith and Failing. Many have faith but fear the consequences of failing. But to succeed, you must fight fear with faith and initiate a desire to fail by falling forward.
At the dawn of a new year, I think it is worth it to confront my fear with faith, if I must fail, I am prepared to fall forward. Never again am I throwing in the towel to life’s vicissitudes. I am done living behind my own shadows out of the fear of the unknown. But why fear the unknown when you serve the all-seeing. With two sons, a caring wife, and an all-knowing God, I think I have tortured them enough, pulling them through the rough edges of life all because I want them to see the world from my point of view by living in fear and consequences of taking the absolute risk. What is life if not to risk it to take control of it?
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In the years ahead, you will see more of me at many tables, trying to connect dots of projects, engaging and challenging the status quo. I shall be manoeuvring through the thick scent of Lagos, Nigeria and indeed the world in my quest to make the world a better place, when that time comes, know that I am hustling to confront my fear. Don’t turn my proposal down with hash words, take a step to see sense in my hustle, for, in the end, I cannot win the war against fear without your support.
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Here is wishing myself a faith-filled fight for the future.
Be Safe. SM-S
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