Good day ladies and gents, welcome to this wonderful and inspirational moment with the Imiano. Today, I will be talking about what it means to cross the rubicon and the three times (among others) we intentionally or unintentionally do so in a lifetime.
Coming to more simple literary terms, the statement crossing or to cross the rubicon simply means one thing, which is to go too hard on something or someone in such a way that it's too hard or rather impossible to go back or be reversed. Itis just like saying that you can't turn back the hands of the clock because it has be propelled to pass a given time or number. Crossing the rubicon is tantamount to one going too extreme on something that one can no longer go back to redo it (or even do it better). Literary, when one crosses the rubicon, as it's being said, the question of going back is out of the picture, but in real life, I don't think it's so. There is always a chance of going back if one can persevere. And remember, at times, one is being pushed to the wall for or by one reason or the other and when one reaches one's maximum limit, and when that happens, one is more likely to cross over it and in so doing, it's really hard or impossible to get to the other (or initial) side of the wall.
Ladies and gentlemen, viewers, guests and visitors alike, at times many of us are being pushed to the wall by some people, conditions, external pressures being mounted on us and difficult times alike and, most times when we cannot withstand the tension anymore we tend to cross over the wall, hence the issue of crossing the rubicon. For, like I said, going back to the once normal side of the wall is not easy and most at times, impossible.
Now, would it be a surprise to you if I say that most times, so many of us are the ones pushing ourselves to the wall? Of course, it wouldn't if I point out clearly the 3 times in a lifetime when we intentionally or unintentionally cross the rubicon. Read below for them.
1.
When You Find It Impossible To Smile.
Bad conditions! I reiterate, Bad conditions! Have make the natural act of letting out a smile extremely difficult for some people. Take for instance, students find it hard to let out a smile in the lecture hall when a lecturer tries to tell a joke while keeping up with his or her lectures. The argument is not that they do not understand what the jokes are all about but the dozens of disturbing thoughts they immerse themselves in even while lecturers are going on do not give room for them to be able to crack the jokes! Think about it, most lecturers when they are lecturing tend to tell few jokes amidst lectures just to get the full attention of the students and then be able to carry them along ( it is a common practise among the ones who care about the welfare of their students though), the trick is that if they are able to get the students respond to their talks or jokes then they would know where the students are or are not lagging behind and be able to carry them along. For if you know how quickly a person responds to your conversation by his or her change of facial look, then you would be able to know how far the words have been able to penetrate through to their minds but guess what?
Nowadays most Nigerian students are occupied by the thoughts of how to scale through, pay hostel accommodation dues, course dues, feeding, transportation and clothing bills that they are too busy to hear or even be able to crack some of the jokes that come their way from the lecturer. So, if you are not responding, how can one know that communication has taken place since there has to be a way of giving feedback ( either by change of facial look or by verbal means, which is less likely in most cases) for one to say that communication has effectively taken place?
Please, when next you have the opportunity, always smile, none of these worries would give you joy over time. Thinking about them always (ie without ceasing) never helps either but finding a way to solve them. So, don't be absent minded again, smile at every little opportunity you have for the opportunity doesn't come often.
2.
When Nothing Matters To You Anymore.
You have probably had such feelings time without numbers; nothing matters anymore.
Sudden things (say accidents) happen close to you, you are not even aware, if you eventually take note of it, it doesn't seem to matter to you anymore, the best you could even after you notice is not even to blink an eye but to pick up your phone and take selfie close to it hoping to upload it to Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites someday with the caption, "accident selfie." If you find out you are like this, brother, sister, it won't be an overstatement to say that you have crossed the rubicon. Think about it, in life there are things that need to matter to you involuntarily. When you cross the rubicon, your involuntary reflex system may not even work well on you again, hence nothing seems to matter to you. When you notice that you are failing in some aspects, your instincts should naturally tend to help you find a balance by motivating you in things that you would profit from. Do note that I am implying that you should worry yourself so much, but allow little things to matter to you again.
3.
When You Just Feel Like Living Just Because Others Are Alive.
Probably, you are tired of living. You just live to fulfill all righteousness so you borrow other people's lifestyle to continue on the but personally, you have given up. Maybe you have heard it all. This country is not working out anymore. Employment is non existing. People can't just make it anymore or maybe you are tired of staying in your home country (just as I am), so you feel nothing could ever work again. There is no more zeal to waken up to your studies after all, those who graduated with excellent grades have not yet been employed, there is no job at all (just as we're told everyday) so there is no need to put in more effort. It does no longer matter if you graduate with First Class honours in your studies again because the economy is dying, so we are told and there are no more jobs at all. Lagging behind becomes the order of the day, those who were once brilliant start giving up on the course and the graduates keep frustrating the undergraduates with the no-jobs-out-there saga. So, in clear terms, studying hard to make it in academics is no longer worth the burning of midnight candles. Oh! You finally resign to the belief; nothing is working out in this country again, nothing will ever work out, there are no needs for trying hard to invest again, so let's just live as we are living; just for the purpose of living, nothing more, nothing less. You have crossed the rubicon at this stage. Find a purpose to live. Forget what they are saying, you have to prepared first before you can tap into opportunities when they surface to you. Persevere to make the distinctions first then think of what to become of it. I have a lot to say but I have to pause here. You can visit us always for more.
In final, crossing the rubicon as the term implies literary, means going over an extreme point that you cannot go back again but as I have noted earlier, in real life, these can be changed or reversed. We are not wooden objects but humans. Try to make things work again. Drive towards reactivating your goals and strive to achieve them.
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