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THE STORY OF THE DOT

Good morning friends, I decided to share a presentation I’ll be giving this Sunday to you on this blog. Happy reading.

I was thinking about my presentation for a launching program I was preparing for. As I thought along, I got an inspiration to present this story. This is a story that will be published by Global Impact Publishing House, Nigeria as a children book. I love the story since it’s going to make my first children’s book. I learnt a great deal from the story and am hoping you’ll also learn from the story too as I want to share it with you right now. There are lots of people who have opposed the idea and asked me to wait till the book comes out but I don’t think it does matter if it affects your life positively as you read it now.

The story of the dot is the story of a small dot who found out he was in a spot. A dot in a spot. Helpless, poor, no friends, companion, nothing.

On a beautiful morning, just by the side of a plain, woke a dot who realised all of a sudden he was in a spot. To him, it wasn’t a beautiful morning, and he was angry, furious and annoyed. Yes! Very annoyed he was in a spot. Why could God be so heartless to create him in a spot? He asked himself countlessly.

The dot wasn’t happy, day and night, he slept and woke up only to find himself in a spot. Oh! How painful, embarrassing it was, just a dot in a spot, he thought. On one of this grumbling and complaining bouts he looked up only to find himself looking up at a beautiful mountain, the mountain was so beautiful, it looked serene, cool and kind. It was absolutely colourful and beautiful. He was surprised to see some dots too living there. Oh! What a painful day he thought, the creator actually created him in this spot and those he put over there. Why? He continues to ask himself. He hates God. Hates Him with passion and wouldn’t forgive him for creating him in this spot.

That night, the dot dreamt he was in front of the creator, and the creator asked him, “Dot, why are you so angry?” Dot furiously spurt out his complains about how unfair the creator was. And all that he has done that was bad and wrong and the pain he’d gotten from discovering that he was partial in creating some dots to enjoy life on the mountain while he was created to languish in the plains. The rough plains, with all the heat of the world, the plains is more like a wilderness, oh how much he hates the creator, and everything about Him.

“You don’t have to be this angry, dot” the creator admonished, but dot wouldn’t listen so the creator asked him “Do you wish I’d placed you there on the mountain?” “Of course” replied dot, who wouldn’t want that. “Not every dot wants that” said the creator.

“The mountain you cherish so much is right there in front of you dot, you don’t have to complain, all you’ve got to do is to take a step and climb on the mountain” the creator said as calm as he could.

Now, dot was even more furious. I am not a fool he thought, the mountain I see and dream about morning, that will take him forever to climb is now in front of him and all he has to do is to take a step and he’ll find the mountain beneath his feet? What does this creator takes him for? He turned and started walking away. He was very sad, what a creator, he thought, created him on this damned plain, and playing with his intelligence still. Instead of him to just put me right there on the mountain . . . anyway, he thought, I’d just de there in the spot . . . thinking along, the creator shouted out to him.

“All you have to do is to take a step. One step.” But dot has already woken up for another sad day.

He wished he could sleep forever, but doesn’t ever want to see that creator again. “I don’t ever want to, he thought”

And then suddenly, it got to him, like light breaking out into his mind, a step he said? Oh! No, he’s taking me for a fool. Dot thought and continued complaining till the day went off. The next day, he said to himself, okay, I’ll take just one step to prove Him wrong and that’ll be it. If I take one step and the mountains not under my feet, he’s a liar and that’s it. He took the step, just one, fearfully, slowly, his forehead broke in sweat but the mountain is nowhere near his foot. I said it, he said. Liar!

Weeks went by, before dot thought to himself, “If I take one more step, I’ll get closer to the mountain, and the mountain will get closer to me. Just a step.” He remembered his experience in taking his first step and it feels good after all.

So he began taking a step, one step at a time. And step by step he got closer to the mountain, and before you know what’s happening, dot went very far. He refused to take a break, he refused to rest until he gets on top of the mountain. And then finally, he got to the mountain top. When he got there, he realised he has changed completely and now very different from what he used to be, he tried looking back at where he was coming from but was surprised he couldn’t find the place. He couldn’t see the plains again, and his former spot, the only thing he saw now was the beauty of the mountain. The serenity of the environment, and the beauty of it. He couldn’t understand what happened but could only remember one thing, and it was from the creator.

“All you have to do is to take a step. One step.”

He smiled…