Bring out the heavy equipment

My wish for you as always is for you to have a Happy Monday.

Success is comparable to victories. If there are no battles to be fought then there are no victories to be won and if there are no obstacles to overcome then there is no success to achieve.
In life it should be remembered that courage and bravery are not qualities to be exhibited with pride. Both these qualities border on being foolhardy and it is only the outcome that determines if one was courageous and brave or foolhardy and was tempting fate.

I grew up near bauxite mining operations and sometimes it was possible to hear the heavy equipment at work in the distance. The siren at the plant served as time piece for 7:50 am (get ready to begin work), 8:00 am (work begin), 12 noon (lunch time), 12:50 pm (get ready to go back to work) 1:00 pm (back to work) 4:30 pm (work day ends). The factory was located in a basin so it was easy to see the heavy equipment at work from a distance. Sometime the mining operations were taking place next door to residences. (If this sound strange I should point out that the bauxite deposit was located on or close to the earth surface.

My father was a farmer and it was a common practice for the farmers to lease/rent land from the bauxite mining company to plant crops and to rear animals.One of the things that I never fully understood was the value of the earth in which my father planted the crops. The same spot where so often we cook out in the fields or roasted sweet potatoes, green corn or yellow yam would later be mined by the bauxite company. The heavy equipment would come in remove the top soil and the bauxite transported in heavy haulage trucks to be converted to alumina then exported to be smelted into aluminium. It was hard to grasp the idea of the red earth in which I planted food crops finally being converted into aluminum and probably was on the roof of the house, or may have made the pot in which I cooked or may have been made into a part on the airplane that was flying overhead.

My home was in the mountains and there were many natural hills, gullies and basins among other natural land formations. One of the infrastructure that the government put in place and improved was the roads.
I should probably mention the railway tracks first because the engineers who were responsible for putting into place the railway tracks when a hill was encountered did not run the tracks over the hill but tunneled through the hill.
There were many small hills that I had to climb up and then down as a child. When the roads were being built then the heavy equipment simply cut through these hills. Many of these hills were small mounds of earth that were naturally formed. Where I lived was limestone and there were also solid hill made out of rock. The use of dynamite and the heavy equipment cut a road through these rocks and left towering cliffs on either sides of the road.
There was a time when halfway through a road being constructed that the engineers came to the decision that the road was too steep for cars to navigate without danger. That road was abandoned and another built in a circuitous way.
I also knew of a prominent house because it was built on the top of a small hill. The time came when the house was demolished and the heavy equipment brought in. I was surprised that the hill was a natural mound of earth and it was completely leveled and the earth taken away (maybe as bauxite).

This page is about acting on out thoughts and ideas. The bigger our thoughts and ideas then the more impossible they will appear. It is the reality that our thoughts and ideas originate in our minds that make them possible to achieve. It is impossible for our minds to conceive things that are outside our dreams and experiences.
The bigger the dream then the more impossible it will appear but what if there were some heavy equipment that could be brought in to mow down and demolish the things that stand in the way of making our dreams, concepts and ideas possible.
The biggest failure that we can encounter is not to pursue our ideas and dreams. It is our dreams and our ideas so we have to deal with the problems individually. How we deal with the problem however could lead to some new invention that shall benefit the whole world.
Our heavy equipment could very well be the resolution with which we tackle our ideas and dreams.
© Prince W Bradford 2015