lessons – Rescue The Forgotten

Off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, lies a small island known as Oak Island. This unassuming piece of land has been the center of one of the most enduring mysteries in maritime history – the legend of the Money Pit.

According to the tale, in the late 18th century, three young boys discovered a peculiar depression on the island’s surface. Intrigued, they began to dig, and as they delved deeper, they encountered layers of logs and stone markers, leading them to believe that they were on the trail of a buried treasure.

Over the centuries, numerous treasure hunters, including famed explorers and engineers, have attempted to unearth the supposed riches, only to be met with a series of ingenious traps and elaborate flood tunnels. Despite the relentless efforts and significant excavations, the treasure, if it indeed exists, remains tantalizingly out of reach.

The mystery of Oak Island’s Money Pit has sparked the imagination of explorers and enthusiasts for generations, with theories ranging from hidden pirate loot to ancient manuscripts or even connections to the Holy Grail. To this day, the island continues to lure adventurous souls in pursuit of the elusive fortune, making it a captivating and enigmatic chapter in the annals of island lore.

Back to the real concept now, In life we create a little island, were we isolate ourselves with what goes around us , we just want the noise to be finally over for a short period of time. Not fully shut but just for until we manage to work our way around things.

We set boundaries, standards and guidelines to point out the dos and donts just in order to buy ourselves time to get our shit straight.

See the boundaries and the artifical island ain’t perfect and to some they may feel like we are selfish and we are anti social never knowing what’s really going on..

To some they are well aware of what’s going on and why there is an island but they are the ones who want to take a boat and come this side, sometimes it’s a good trip but some times it’s for a bad cause to just Lower the gap between the waters and the land.

The problem that arise in our lives create isolation and the isolation is the island, we have different ways of accepting the problem at hand. We accept and draw a way to proceed with tackling the problem.

But to others our ways of solving them may be Alittle kinda different from how they will normally tackle it, and this gap between our way of doing versus the way they will do its what causes conflicts and causing us to dry our islands dry. The words spoken cause us to lower our beliefs on solving our problems in our own ways.

Don’t get it twisted, but there’s power in collaborative problem solving and also there is power in adaptive and solo problem solving, see sometimes problems come our way not to be collaboratively solved.

There is a verse from the Good book that says, when temptations come our way, are within our abilities to be solved by us, this statement alone may help when we’re facing problems only when we believe in it .

With problems comes solutions, with solutions comes experiences and with experience comes sucess, let not your way of dealing with problems be messed up just by the words, action or somebody else’s way of solving problems.

Bless up
Emitty …

School is hard that’s a fact,

From 8 to more hours, more than our minds can hold in classes

Plenty of subjects to study just because of the idea of getting employed or starting a business.

With all the ideas revolving around school Issa mess. Keeping up semester after semester just for graduation, the pressure building up and how we fight the fear of failing while listening to motivational speeches that success is created by failures and giving ourselves hope that AAL IS WELL.

Well, we develop a circle based on our day-to-day interaction and made ideas into reality just because got people to believe in the ideas. support is one thing I learn from these people in my circle.

See we have social media that keeps us close but yet creates distance with the people close to us.

I would like to introduce to you one undefined friend that I met back then, see back then she wasn’t that close, confused eeh (?)

I call her Dummy Ra I don’t know where this comes from but I know that this sounds better when we talk over the phone or just text. Other names are Tutankhamun, sky laurel, Elle, and many more. She’s a lot of things but one that keeps popping is the POET inside her, she has her ways with lyrics and words that can heal souls and change lives

(is it true?) yes because she has changed mine on several occasions.

What started as an academic competition got me tight and learning more from her without even knowing that. They say life Is better lived forward but can be understood backward. Many years after starting and living with Dummy I’ve been in a constant learning environment.

Top lessons learned from SKY LAUREL

1. Mental Health

I started by saying the distance caused by social media, but let’s just say social media plays a great role.

A new use of social media is to associate what we feel to what we see in our feeds and also tagging a person on a post shows appreciation or a call for them to view the content faster.

Recently received a social tag from her, into a carousel post which explained some points that showed if a person was good for your mental health, six points on the carousel.

Well was truly honored to receive the Tag, but deep down I would have replied to the carousel as follows. (* just teasing *)

Some of the points to recall were as follows

[ ] They don’t try to change you. (/ why change a grown person, muacheee 🤣 /)

[ ] You feel understood and safe around them (it’s because having guns isn’t legal, would you be feeling safe if I had a gun ?)

[ ] They push you to do your best and overcome obstacles (very lucky that there are no cliffs in WhatsApp we would have pushed you more )

[ ] You feel comfortable sharing personal things (I’ll pass on this with a no comment)

[ ] They don’t care about anything surface -money, looks, possessions. (We don’t have anything no money no what so we have to settle for no money and no looks too. 🤣🤣🤣)

This just shows that there are things that we do that people take beneficial for their mental health but we fail to realize them. In a world that people are constantly battling anxiety, depression, and more you have you play your part and be the one person who is good for their mental health.

2. Commitment

Apart from her being a POET by hobby and interests she’s a 4^th Year student taking Architecture Technology at a university that is termed as the most hardest institute in terms of academic stuff and she has survived there for four good years, I would personally share her CV here but lets leave that for another day, School aside cause the fact of that gets me goosebumps she’s a astro or anything related to astronomy enthusiast, she might be short but her dreams and ideas are way over that height of hers and mine even. She’s also a verified smile giver and this came to light when she became the coordinator for our RESCUE THE FORGOTTEN projects in Mbeya with more than 5+ projects and counting done under her watch.

One might ask all these and she’s just a student, how does she do this, well the answer is Commitment, she’s one hell of a fighter and never makes a promise she can’t make it go through.

3. Society first

I feel like am stalking her, is it wrong? I don’t know. But here is the inside truth of this lesson being her friend for many years got me see and learn a lot from her. If I were kidnap here I would say the best way is just arrange a society-centered activity and call her to attend from there its easy just to kidnap her, this is because she’s super committed to put her community first.

In an academic level we hope that a normal student has to go through some stuff just in the name of graduating but she has made that her education is to make her community come first and she has made a last year research project about her community. With school breathing her neck she still organizes project that is society centered and society oriented.

4. Life is a gift.

During corona aka covid-19, was the hardest time for most of us because it being a new season and we weren’t ready for the new season. For some of us were not even over the fact that we were in at end of some season (this is because each season ends and the ends is where newthe begins) CCOVID-19 got us winding our normal into some new normal

Will still rethinking my options a popped-up information from Dummy entered with a link to a YouTube clip titled WHO ARE YOU(?)

There are no words that can explain how that day I was off my chi and shaken from the core, with everything going just quick no schools and just chillaxing homat e. (You can relate) the clip title got Me pause and wanted me to answer that from my perspective.

I won’t lie i dIdn’t got a suitable answer that day but it paved away for alot of uncomfortable conversations that I had with myself that made me comfortable to seek and use them from time to time and look where I’m, and all that is just because I want to answer this. “Who Are you?”

Have you found the answer to this simple but yet complicated question?

5. Anchor and support.

With life never being fair, it’s easy to lose where you’re heading, focus fades and anxiety kicks in. Being a student isn’t all white, what is released is that it has more blacks more than it being white. You may have this perfect lay out of how you are going to go through one semester after the other and school life has a way to give you new set of fresh heepee jeepes.

But when assignments kick in, projects eating you up, unbalanced social life, your economic status is rough on ya, friends need support but then fail to be there for them, all things and resolutions that you’ve kept all going drain.

What do you do (?) Who’s your support where do you anchor all that (?)?

She has often show me the impact to have an anchor and a neutral point that always helps out when you’re constantly shaking and fighting anxiety and many more.

There is a lot to talk about in terms of lesson about her but let me just say no matter who you will meet, never account her or his standards not his or her ability because we learn always from everyone we meet daily.