1+1=….?

For some of us that attended a “buttered school”, this looks really familiar right. In arithmetics they say 1+1=2, well in the real world or in various applications that can mean a lot of things to different people, by the time I am through with this post I am sure a whole lot of you will have an idea of what the answer is.

Sometime ago, I saw an heavy object which was about to fall off from where it was placed and I had to call the attention of a friend to it. He asked why I wasn’t doing anything about it instead of calling him, before I could reply that the object was too heavy for me to carry he said: ‘don’t you know that there is a point system for everything?’Those words sunk deep down and the thought came to me that really, this present world and the future require that you store up your points for future purposes if not now.

Recently, I also heard a man of God say that if you are about to walk out of a room and see someone’s child about to fall into a ditch, preventing that child from falling would have deposited a seed sown somewhere in your life that you may probably reap as wanting to make a decision that will lead you to ruin and someone from somewhere will voluntarily and unintentionally provide solutions to your problem.

Life has a way of adding up all our points as we live and how well we do that. If you have ever been confused about purpose or what to do with your life at a particular point in your life  If you have heard sermons or speeches about purpose, mission, vision with all the ryhmes (I have left some seminars and churches more confused than I entered), If you have ever wondered where your strenght or passion lies or you have thought that If you ever had the opportunity to go back to school again, you will not study the same course you studied instead you’ll be doing what you love doing. I am glad to announce to you that there’s a point system that adds up on your behalf. There’s a meeting point where all the dots join.Some peole gather their points early in life, some people just let things go slow and steady, some other people don’t really care how the points add up. By the time you look back in you life, you’ll see how the points add up.

The relationships we build today or rather the investments we make in people, the friends we lose, the places we go and how we live those places; they are all points adding up together as a point system on our behalf, that’s why I believe that our understanding is in parts, we receive instructions or we are directed on how to join the next dot or add another point to the arithmetic, so we can take the next step, you may not know what tomorrow hold but today can determine so much.

The opportunities that come our way, the successes we make and the bend called failure, the money we lose or the ones we almost lost, the incompetence we display and the competence we parade ourselves with, the misunderstanding we have with people and the peace we just allow to reign, the heartbreak or the royalty treatment we get from loved ones, the lack of warmth and love from a father or mother, it’s all a point system, whatever we do with it now, determines how much we will get back. Be careful what points you add to your point system, some point system read positive while some read negative, some points multiply while some divide, and some points get squared as well.

1+1 may be equal to sowing and reaping, it may be equal to divine coincidence, it may be equal to purpose, it may be equal to 1 (concept of marriage for majority) it may even be equal to 2 but I’ll rather say that 1+1 is equal to a POINT SYSTEM.