BEFORE YOU GROW HORNS

‘Horns do not grow before the head’

Horns usually have a curved or spiral shape, often with ridges or fluting. A horn is a pointed projection of the skin on the head of various animals, consisting of a covering surrounding a core of living bone. Animals usually use their horns to defend themselves from predators and fight members of their own species for territory, dominance or mating priority.

Since horns have been described as an extension or projection of the head; our ancestors believe that they do not grow before the head. This means that without the existence of the head, no animal can grow horns on any other parts of the body.

Many times in life, some of us are given the opportunity by nature to be the horns on the head of our family, school, organization, institution, society or country. We cannot be described as the head because we are more elevated, projected, celebrated, famous and useful than the head. It is a pity that many of us allow our fame and projection in life to saturate our thought to the extent that we forget to acknowledge the privilege given to us by the head. We act as if there were no head and we forget that without the head, we can never exist.

A child who calls his father a foolish or poor man because he feels he is wiser and richer than his father can be related to the horn while his father remains the head. A student who thinks her instructors are not knowledgeable is like the horn while the instructors remain the head. A wife who feels her husband is lazy or useless because she is hardworking, rich and influential is like the horn while the husband remains the head. An employee who thinks he is better and more educated than his boss because his boss is unproductive and stupid is like the horn while the boss remains the head.

No matter how intelligent, rich, active, famous, tall or blessed you are in life, you are not expected to forget your head. If not for your head, you wouldn’t have existed. So, no matter how bad, poor, stupid and irrelevant your head may be to you, it still remains your foundation in life. Remember, it is only the head that has been given the mandate by nature to control the body, not the horns. So, no matter how high you are as a horn, you still remain under the control and influence of your head.

As from today, whenever you feel like growing horns, never forget the words of our ancestors that horns don’t grow before the head. The ancestors have spoken!

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