INFERIORITY COMPLEX: A killer of potential in our age

INFERIORITY COMPLEX

A killer of potential in our age

          “I am thankful to all those who said “NO” because of them I did it myself”.

                                                                                                             -         Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is a man who believed that the refusal of people to help him does not make him inferior to them and to the task at hand-instead, he harnessed the superiority in him with strong beliefs and today his accomplishments speak for him. Even Moses before he became a leader who led the Israelis out of Egypt was stricken with inferiority complex until God revealed to him the superiority in him. Today when we speak of the Exodus of the Israelis out of Egypt we remember Moses.

          Inferiority complex is a limitation to the release of one’s potential. It paralyses the will to succeed. One of its effects is the problem of “WANNA BE” which has subjected many to become slaves to some people they believe are super-humans. Instead of harnessing their own potential, Inferiority complex absorbs hope and makes a person feels ingenuity. Hey! Nobody is superhuman. The difference is just that some people fight and defeat inferiority complex and go the extra mile.

          The reality is that the act of feeling inferior exists in the mind of the individual. For example; Two persons from different races say a major race and a minor race. The latter feels inferior when in the midst of the major races. This does not make anybody inferior, instead the person is original and whatever is original is unique.

          Every human being has the inferiority complex in one way or the other; people handle theirs in different ways. Today, when we go down the history lane of America as a country we remember men like John Hancock, Samuel Adams and Richard Henry Lee. These are the master mind behind the decision to hold a continental congress which inspired fifty-six men to sin the document for the Declaration of Independence. Everyone staking his own life upon his decision to write his name on a document which they well know would bring freedom to all Americans, or leave everyone of the fifty-six hanging from a gallows if it did not succeed. 

          These men could not have made history if they had allowed inferiority complex to limit their potential. Mandela could not have endured the long walk to freedom if he had not defeated inferiority complex. Barrack Obama rose to become the first black President of the United States of America because he believed he is not inferior to another. He believed he could succeed amidst all oppositions and he did succeed.

          The world belongs to the optimists, pessimists are only spectators. Do not focus on past failures or exaggerated fears of future failures. No one knows what he can do until he tries. The fear of inferiority complex is the beginning of failure but the defeat of this potential killer is the beginning of success.

OBIAOZU, SOLOMON E.