“Must every great idea have a ‘wow’ effect?”
…I was once asked. Although I chose to ignore the question at the moment, it just kept ringing in my ears like the hourly chime of bells from my grandmother’s village steeple. It gnawed at me like a mother hen trying to rescue her chicks! I realised that it wasn’t just another question to be answered to quench the appaling thirst of my inquisitive friend, neither does it require a retort nor the silence that I gave it. I realised it was far more than something muse about and then, discard. It was a code that needed to be deciphered and implanted in our very eyes so we can see through it.
The question is a kind I’d refer to as my friend, Sandra’s Lapalapa seeds that after breaking the pods, you’d still have to get the ‘seeds inside the seeds’ for manure. It sounds very simple and anyone would have just answered it without baiting an eyelid, but then, I noticed that most people can’t give correct answers because they really don’t know what it means to have great ideas! Most people have problems that they know they could have done without because there is something with their perception. Most problems surface because people don’t know or understand certain basic things. I realised many people don’t understand what it means to have a great idea, not to mention the effect it has.
What ideas are great? Or what ideas are excellent? What ideas should be considered deserving a specified description? Greatness is a seed that when nourished, grows in people, and then, make them invincible, imprinting their names on the stones of time. A great idea is not one that is most likely capable of making you rich, it is not one that sounds ‘magnificent’ in it’s own sense. In fact, the greatest of ideas usually doesn’t make sense. Most great ideas are usually shunned and laughed at – not ‘wowed’. It takes the deep to call on the deep, it takes a great personality to breed great ideas. Greatness is an institution that is affiliated to – simple! – an incomparable God.
The actualisation of every great idea is always wooooowww, but the idea on it’s own – wheeeeeewww. Greatness comes from within, what more can you ask for when you have Great on your inside? Want to be great or breed greatness?…can’t do it without Great – can’t.
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