ON A DUSTY ROAD...

This evening I embarked on an interesting journey.

I was going to Calabar from Abakaliki. 

As soon as our saloon car stepped into the 'half-done' parts of the road,our car was enveloped in dust. 

Clouds of dust.

Vision ahead was obscured. 

Yet,the driver throttled on. 

In faith,perhaps. 

Or from his knowledge of the road. 

Luckily,we got some brief relief when we entered the tarred parts of the road. 

But our baptism by dust continued. 

The dust set me thinking. 

Why so much dust on these parts of the road? 

Then I remembered. 

Two reasons: 

1. This is dry season. The roads have not been watered. 

2. Those parts of the road were not tarred. 

And suddenly it hit me. 

Our minds are like roads. 

And believe me,most are dusty.  

Why are most of our minds dusty? 

Two reasons still: 

1. Most minds are dry,denied of the water of wisdom. 

2.Most minds are not coated with the tar of knowledge. 

Just as a dusty road offers blurred vision and persistent irritation to the driver and passengers

A dusty mind offers confusion,ignorance and chaos. 

You must not tar a road to reduce dust. 

A simple watering will do. 

Similarly, a sound mind is not only the luxury of knowledgeable minds

Simple people with wisdom and common sense still possess it. 

Knowledge,like tar on a road,smoothens the mind. 

This allows sound, and occasionally, life-changing ideas,to travel the length and breadth of the mind. 

Not all of us can afford to tar our roads or get specialized knowledge in advanced physics,molecular biology,medicine,law,engineering,etc. 

But most of us can afford to water our roads. 

So please,do something about the dust.

Get specialized knowledge if you can. 

But most importantly,get wisdom.