Three wise men: In memory of Francis L. Bartels, K.B. Asante, and Prof Kwabena Nketia
The American poet, Walt Whitman [1819 -1891], is noted to have said that “The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual – namely to You.”
And I may reiterate that since no man is an island it pays to identify certain mentors for leverage so that one’s singularity is stretched in exponential doses for effect.
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Of purpose and mentors
There’s something about human behaviour in how people tend to unconsciously retard their own growth.
Once they reach a certain age, or attain a certain qualification and position, they begin to subsist in comfort zones.
They stop learning and their minds continue to run on idle.
They may progress at work; they may be eager and mean well; but they learn no more!
It helps to seek meaning in life, to seek a sense of purpose, to seek that which drives one daily.
However, more significantly, one needs to feel the experience of being alive, to feel the rapture of aliveness.
The ultimate is to live for a purpose larger than one’s measly self.
For spiritual and emotional guidance, then, we need to beg, borrow, and banter – but by all means we need to have in life an inspirer, one who provides a leverage – the one you escape to for a polar compass for growth, by their examples.
On that note, I’m humbled to cite these three key mentors:
