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COLUMN: Stop LOOKING, start SEEING!

───   13:44 Tue, 21 Feb 2017

COLUMN: Stop LOOKING, start SEEING! | News Article

Growing up in the dusty streets of Qwaqwa, I had a dream of becoming a teacher.


I was so fascinated about the idea of teaching a child how to write, watch them right their names for the first time ever and watch them eventually grow up to be successful people in life. 

But alongside that childhood dream there was a far more deeper yearning/desire inside of me. A yearning of wanting to know what my class will say one morning if I walked into the class holding a SEED in my hand and asked them, "What am I holding in my hand?"

But then the reality hit me, that those who LOOK in life will say I'm holding a seed but those who SEE, will say I'm holding a tree. 

The difference between looking and seeing in this regard is that those who say I'm holding a seed are merely LOOKING at what' is In front of their eyes but those who say that I'm holding a tree, are simply SEEING beyond the current reality of what I am holding; they are seeing into the potential and the future of what I'm holding.


Let me break it down further:

Some people in life aren't successful not because they are not fortunate/blessed/favored enough but simply because while they were busy LOOKING for opportunities, they missed their chance to actually SEE those opportunities and grab them with both hands and make the best out of them. 

Can I go further? Oh yes??!

Let me talk about some single people; there are single people out there who are not happily together with someone because they are specifically LOOKING for a certain kind of a partner and failing to SEE the partner meant for them simply because they don't dress or look they way they have them envisioned in their minds. 

These people are merely LOOKING at the qualities that they want in a partner and are failing to see the qualities/traits they need in a partner...that's the problem.

Ladies and gentlemen, ff you are to really progress in life, you need to stop LOOKING at your past as a bad/hurtful/painful occurrence but rather start SEEING your pasts as a reminder of how far you come for you to be where you are today and how strongly you have endured and trudged through all the challenges and rough patches. 

You need to get to a point where you stop LOOKING at your present challenges (financial/family challenges) as an obstacle  holding you back from achieving your dreams but rather start SEEING an opportunity to rise above those challenges and use those very same challenges/sufferings as a measure of setting yourself up and stepping up into the future more wiser, stronger and determined.

But most importantly, today being a CHOOSEDAY I want to challenge you to make a CHOICE to stop LOOKING for validation from people to tell you what and who you are and what you can and can't do but rather start SEEING the greatness and rich potential inside of you to achieve and be anything and everything you desire. 

Stop LOOKING at the task or challenges ahead of you and wondering how and if you going to make it but rather start SEEING that, what lies ahead of you, will never ever be greater than what lies inside of you...and what lies inside of you Is tenacity and strength to overcome anything and everything. 

Stop LOOKING at your broken heart/life, because doing so will only hurt you more, but rather pick yourself up, pick those broken pieces up, mend it and start SEEING how happy you will be with a fully mended heart embracing life and love again.

Make the right choice. Happy CHOOSEDAY.

#NoAlarmClockNeededMyChoiceWakesMeUp


Fannie Zim is a practicing and Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. 

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