Time check – 11.30pm.
I waited alone in the sitting room when my siblings had gone to bed to watch the epic Yoruba movie titled KOTO AYE by the Baba Ajileye. The movie was the talk of the town and I was glad it was played on NTA Ibadan that night.
For those who saw the movie then, you would agree with me that the movie was scary with a lot of creepy scenes. The electricity power supply was ceased almost immediately I finished watching the movie. No thanks to NEPA.
Gross darkness covered the whole sitting room and I started palpitating. My heart was beating fast like Lasisi Elenu would say. The scary things I saw in the movie started replaying in my mind and it was as if one of those scary things was about to happen to me in real life.
I couldn’t go back to my room because of the fear that one of the witches in the movie would appear to me on the corridor. I layed gently on the couch sweating profusely. Fear gripped me and it was the longest night of my life up till date.
I battled this fear for almost three months anytime night falls and I was going to bed. Anytime the fear comes, I always believed that those scary things in the movie were present with me in my room.
All these happened to me because of what entered through my eyes to my mind. The pictures got to my mind and took a throne to put me under fear that those things were real. It was a negative experience for me
As I grew much older, I saw a movie titled SOMETHING THE LORD MADE. It was a true life story of a black American man by the name Vivien Thomas who interned under a white doctor and he eventually became one of the greatest non-formally trained surgeon of John Hopkins University.
The movie also replays in my mind anytime I want to give up on a dream. Each time I remember the movie, I summon courage to go for whatever it is that I want. This movie came into this same mind of mine like the KOTO AYE I saw years back.
What are the lessons here:
1. The mind of a man works with whatever you feed into it continually. Feed it with fear and you become full of fear. Feed it with positivity and you become a positive person.
2. Be deliberate what you capture with your eyes. The best camera in the world are your eyeballs.
3. The mind is like a growing organism, it becomes mature with the kind of diet you give to it.
4. You become what you feed on.
He gives wisdom to the simple
Oluwaseun David ADEPOJU
