THE ROMANCE OF THE MIND AND BODY FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
The Laziness of the mind influences the creativity of the hands. Inversely put, the usefulness and thoughtful creativity of the hands is determined by the soundness and readiness of the mind. Oftener, we speak of ideas as either ruling or impoverishing the world. In fact, great, worst ideas or better still what the mind perceives or grasps from the experiential works of an artist or a fashion designer amongst others, is attributed to the nature of the mind, and the mind of another human person seeks to reproduce in like manner or better display what it has pictured and processed rationally.
In short, a sound mind is everything. Everything lies in the healthiness of the thinking mind. The far and wide development that we see daily in industries and firms, or the weak and sub-standard structures and incessant under-development plaguing us depends on the mode of operation of the mind. Nobody is “mindless”, it all depends in those doing the thinking for the general good of all; a kind of thinking that is unbiased in all forms and kind.
The problems of Nigerians and Nigeria, both in terms of exploitation and improvidence on the part of those saddled with the responsibility of doing so, is owing to the fact that achievable ideas and plans are concentrated in the hands of irrational minds that think less of the common good. Now, when the mind is sound in the body, human creativity surpasses imaginative thinking. Hence, a sound mind operating within the province of a healthy body produces and influences the work of human hands.
By nature, everyone desires the best but not everyone has the mental and “mindful”capacity to determine the limit of inactivity and swing into actions. Laziness is not alien to humankind, but it is appropriated and welcomed within human space because some persons want the most but lack the quintessence of the mind to work it out. When the mind is overused it becomes tired; when it is under used it becomes lazy so much so that the tiredness and laziness of the mind are instrumental to the weaknesses and unproductivity of humanity.
Albeit, sound mind most times may perhaps not have as much as the capacity of creativity that is required owing to the fact that, the mind may be sound and the body unsound vice versa. As such both are needed since unsound body and sound mind may not work complimentarily, and this is detrimental to perpetual progress in humanity. Succinctly put, an indwelling of sound mind in an unsound body yields little or no good result for whomever it is attributed. Thus, it was not a mistaken term when it was asserted that a sound mind in a sound body, are dual operations in a single being for the overall production, progression in creativity and human development. Hence, an authentic creativity and useful progress comes from the companionship of sound mind in a sound body.
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