There were once two villages that stood adjacent to each other separated by a deep ravines, in a certain kingdom. Each village had about ten thousand inhabitant whose friend and families resides on both sides. In the course of time, as consciousness grew and education evolved, there emerged the thoughts of a bridge that would link both villages. a delegation from both village, in compact, went and poured out their emotions to those in the office of governmental trust, and they rendered a decision for the bridge to be built. So the government commission a builder from France to come and build the bridge. He build a beautiful bridge, and the villagers and government were very please.

The question now is, who build the bridge and, who benefit from the bridge been built.

Before you answer the question, let me enlarged the picture a little farther. Mind developed in an environment; the environment does not developed mind, rather, its because mind sets out to developed the environment cause mind to developed. The environment is void and without form until mind act. When mind act the environment react to the mind and the person mind whose act, which cause mind to exhaust. Mind need to act so it may exhaust to refresh. When mind refreshed it becomes an advance mind; more than before. When mind act, the environment react and something happen to the personality of the mind that act; the person becomes more powerful as a person, character emerged. There can never be a powerful mind or personality if the mind remained old. Mind must always new. The butterfly will not come if the caterpillar does not exhaust. Do not confused mind with high education; education is a tool that mind used; mind act and education manage the act, education clean mind up. Idi Amin had a good mind but not the education, Harvard graduate people with great education without the great mind. Had black Harvard grads went and help Amin, he would had done great things for Africa. One person can achieve for an entire race or nation of people Every time you act your environment becomes more powerful and you too becomes more powerful. If you do not act and allow others from outside to come and act for you, then you will become stagnated and weak and your environment will pass you by. So

We can answer the question now; who build the bridge and who benefit from the bridge been built.

Off course its the French man who build the bridge and European benefit. It contribute in strengthening to the European mind gravity, but weakening the mind level of that kingdom. You must not allow any one from outside to come and do things for you, they can teach you but its you or some one grew up there must do it. The progress has to come from that local environment, and the people has to be the progress. Progress is an art by itself, the artist has to paint the art. Do not make the error to believing that high education will cause progress; progress and the man is the same, as the art and the painter is the same; you got to BE. Mind has space and need experience growth that has to be filed, like riding a bike; it does not matter how many degrees you have about riding bikes, they mean nothing until you experience riding a bike. You cannot build a people; the people has to build themselves and experience their own progress. Most people are weak, not that they are weak, they maybe educated but they don’t do the things that would make them strong. // by J Cole