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We Are The Secret!
Submitted by: Itumeleng Dumako
Bloemfontein- South AfricaI am a lecturer at a TVET college and an advocate for educational transformation, a public commentator, a father of one and expecting a newborn in a few months. I am graduating with my Master's Degree in March.
Since the year 2013 I have had The Secret in my household. It was given to my ex-girlfriend by a friend as a birthday present. This book has been in the house since then but I just looked at it as one of those motivational books with nothing to offer. I despised it more when I tried to engage it and the first few pages related to stories about the Platos and the Einsteins. I thought it entailed the redundant every day theories about those individuals. My ex-girlfriend left but the book remained. I have kept it in the house and moved from one pandemonium to the other with it. The covering paper even got dilapidated and was torn off.
Three day ago I laid on my bed and thought I should read something that was going to relax my mind. I could not watch television because I had not paid for my subscription due to bankruptcy. I had so many things in my mind. I had not paid for my little daughter’s school fees, either. My car is still at the mechanic and I do not have the means to pay for it. I looked around and found The Secret and thought I could ease my mind by using it as a lullaby. I read through the pages and I haven’t stopped until today. I am having goose-bumps as I type this line. I feel all teary that I have had a “thought treasure” in my house but my thoughts were always bankrupt. I immediately started to sing songs of positivity to myself. I woke up very jolly in the morning, my mood changed and all the suicidal thoughts had faded away.
Yesterday was a Thursday and as a norm, my colleagues and I usually go out for a few “sundowners”. Yesterday I vehemently refused. My new positive self could not allow me to. My thoughts have changed so much and I have not finished reading the book yet. I am only halfway through the book and I have already discovered The Secret.
The Secret is all around us, it is within us. We are The Secret.