OUR INTERIOR

 A young child once asked me about the role of the Ministry of Interior. I told her that the ministry was responsible for maintaining internal security of citizens and foreigners residing within the country as that would ensure and promote good governance.

Many a time, we have heard this saying “What you are looking for in Sokoto is in your sokoto”. We could interprete this to mean that, that which we go far and wide in search of is closer to us than we think”. Our mind is filled with so many answers to our unending questions only if we could internally secure it against negative and demeaning thoughts. Whatever achievement, success or happiness we might crave for, comes first from within. Most times in life, the distractions and noise from outside cause us to neglect or worse still make us unable to recognize the small voice on the inside of us; our conscience. Our conscience, this great judge in the silence of our hearts, speaks to us, it is from there that the spring of our self-confidence wells forth, there, resides answers to our many questions.

The issue is not about your physical appearance or your financial status, it is about your inner mind; your interior. It’s not about being a rat; it’s about having the mind of a rat. We really do not have control over how our bodies mature, but we have a significant role to play in ensuring that our minds are being nurtured to that level of maturity where full knowledge of ourselves comes from within and the opinion of others about what we are and how much we can achieve do not count a great deal.

If we could give ourselves sometime with our inner man, we would see how richly endowed we are. There’s so much in you that you are yet to discover.