The subtle thief that is robbing Africa Blind…

Break free the chuckles of comparison. Raw & Unedited

Khalila Mbowe
3 min readMay 16, 2021

It is not without a fight that you will endure

It is with Grace that you will learn all that you need to learn to get to destiny

The lessons of life are many with no room in between.

Not here to intimidate but to usher us into purpose, into Fullness.

Every turn the universe calls and speaks to us, out loud about all the things we overlook.

Every breath, the air communicates love. Life. Truth.

There is a language at play every single second.

It is a language that creates life, love, and wholeness.

This is the language of US, abandoned and forgotten at the altar of normalcy.

It is not without fault that we exist.

But “fault” is “fault” when we compare it to an unfaulty by another.

Otherwise, fault are lessons?

Comparison! Oh, the over-decorated thief.

Of joy. Of life. Of Purpose. Of the manifestation of self.

Somehow, somewhere, it has been labeled as okay downsize another.

And say that theirs is not a perfect purpose because it does not come as a copy-pasted edition of another’s that we have grown to understand.

Year in, year out. Africans rob themselves of the gift of wholeness.

Simply because they have learned so very well; how to compare.

Themselves with others. Instead of themselves with destiny, with purpose, with fullness

It is only when one realizes that their own very unique existence is magic…

Only when the realization that there is so much more below the surface.

Only when one stops look outwards and focuses on inner peace, recognition, self-love, self-awareness, self-discovery, self-love, self-worthiness, self-dignity, SELF-GROWTH that they can truly understand and start journeying towards who they truly are…

…And the role they are here to play!

Comparison robs us of that opportunity; as our eyes and hearts keep focusing outward.

Many say that ours is a mindset issue.

I say that it’s first a focus issue then a mindset issue. (Chicken and Egg situation)

What you focus on becomes your reality. Your reality reinforces what you focus on… And the cycle continues.

Our focus has been to be more like the West and now the East. Turning our backs to what truly brings out our wholeness

Rather than uncovering the magic within and truly manifesting in the fullness of who we are.

We are left comparing ourselves to the West, East, the fabrication, and not fabricated past.

Yet, destiny calls for us to get unstuck.

It is not without pain, suffering, and hurt that we will endure

Responding to the cry of the universe, the cry of all nature, the cry of all existence.

Calling out to us! Calling out loud!

Africa! Wake Up!

Remember! Who you are!

When will we truly respond? Fully respond?!!!

Our hearts must answer in unison!

NOW!!!

#BeLegendary

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Khalila Mbowe

A Multi-passionate social innovator and impact-entrepreneur, Speaker, writer, all round creative human and Mother of 2.