The most important perfume

I have 3 different perfumes.

Somehow I had decided they all had different roles to play in my life.

One was a luxury perfume I had gotten by attending its launch. So it was natural that I’d wear it only on special occasions. The second, I called my confidence perfume, because I had in my my own thwarted reality reasoned that it gave me confidence everytime i put it on and the last, I had quite plainly labeled it a normal perfume. I would wear it on any normal day. And this to my organized mind made sense.

I had to attend a very special occasion on Saturday and I suddenly realized I had only accepted the perfume I labeled as normal to be so because that is exactly what i wanted it to be — normal. Not because it really was normal but that I only accepted it as normal. Because it was a perfume after all, and the second perfume I reasoned gave me confidence was of the same brand. So I decided to wear my normal perfume on a not so normal day. The day turned out rather interesting. I took a trotro that had 4 french citizens from 4 different countries including the driver and his mate. The driver was from Benin, his mate from Cote d’Ivoire, Ash was from Burkina Faso i think, and her friend from Togo.

Even more interesting was the fact that they thought I was french as well and had a hard time believing I was Ghanaian and my french is not that good.

This made me think about the power of thoughts and decisions .

We are exactly what we decide to be and a reflection of our most consistent thoughts.

I believe nobody was born to be normal. Granted you may have been born normal but even the most exceptional people were normal in their own context. Just like my not-so-normal perfume. You are your own brand of human being. Not normal, just human. A a perfume is different from water but even water has over a thousand uses in medicine, agric, construction, etc and is in the broader sense, infinitely more useful than perfume. It can build and it can destroy.

The type of human you decide to be is what you accept as your normal.

You are normal as long as you think and decide to be normal, and the moment you change that thought, everything normal will fight against you till you defy that normal. After breaking that nominal thought pattern, your new reality becomes your new normal till you change that as well.

“ Most of us, in real life, are stuck in level 1. We have done the same things over and over again for so long, and are wondering why we can’t seem to be move forward.” — Kelechi Udoagwu

‘Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.’ — Henry Ford

Go out there and be exceptional!