04/10/2024
*SNAKE AT THE LODGE* 🐍
*PERSPECTIVE AND PERCEPTION*
EP 3
It was one fateful day when my friend went to fetch water from a borehole just a few meters away from the lodge. Waking up early to get to work on time ⏰, he opened the back door and there, dangling from the top of the door, was a tiny little snake 🐍.
Afraid but maintaining his steeze 😎, like the G he is, he announced to the entire house what he just discovered. Immediately, panic 😱 spread everywhere in the lodge.
Doors were being slammed shut 🚪 as everyone became hyper-aware of every step they took 👀.
And of course, your learning coach here was like, "Come on, it's just a snake!" 😏 But honestly, fear was gripping me on the inside 😬.
Our major concern was how the snake managed to get on top of the door in the first place 🤔.
But the mystery here wasn’t just about the snake, it was about why we were so afraid to go through that door 🚷.
You might say, "Well, the snake is still there."
But what made the fear persist for days afterward?
It was our *imagination* of what could happen if the snake got to someone and did what a snake knows how to do .
Since we are pharmacists 💊, we know the price of antivenom was ₦65,000 💸 before Tinubu.😀
It was the imagination, the *invisible sponsor* of the fear we felt, that dictated our every move
That door stayed shut for a few hours, not because the snake was still there but because of the fear living in our heads .
What do you see? 👀
What you see controls what you feel and what you do .
If you perceive someone as a bad person, you will subconsciously avoid them because of the imagined harm they might cause 🚶🏽♂️➡️.
If you see something as difficult or bad 🚫, even when you consciously try to engage with it, your subconscious will try to avoid it 🧠.
If you perceive chemistry as complicated, hard, and difficult, you might avoid it subconsciously. Even when you try to study it 📖, your brain has already been wired to resist.
What do you see?
