Hello everyone!
You know, its weird how certain events and/or situations you experience in life can have so many ways to be put down.
Its also weird how easy it is to get stories, ideas, revelations, out of pretty much anything if you put your mind into it.
It is said that everything has a story inside of it, or is it "everyone has a story to tell". Either way, a story can be found in pretty much anything you see, touch or smell. It all depends on how sensitive you are to the object and how observant you really are.
That rock sitting in front of your yard didn't get there on its own. It was likely transported from a site. Even before it was transported, eons of compression and tectonic plate movements carried and formed it from the ground up.
One of my favorite lessons in school then was probably the topic on petroleum.
Getting a little chemistry mix in here
See, petroleum is really REALLY important to the world right now.
While advancement in tech has made it possible to run cars with water, battery, solar energy etc, it isn't only cars that we use petroleum for(we use a derivative of petroleum, gasoline, for cars).
Apart from getting fuel for your car, petroleum/crude oil can be separated into so many constituents at separate temperatures, and these constituents are used in the petrochemical industries, and other places.
Some of the most important derivatives include
- gasoline
- kerosine
- paraffin wax
- butane, propane
- petroleum jelly
- bitumen
- asphalt
As can be seen, a lot of important chemicals for
- road construction
- heating gas
- motor fuel
- lamp oils
Etc,
But eons ago, there was no such thing as petroleum, at least not in the sense that we are used too.
See, petroleum is formed from the ancient fossils of marine plants, animals, algae and bacteria.
These remains are subjected to intense heat and pressure, literally under the earth, they are crushed, grinded, smoothened, for millions of years.
The fossils, although not alive, pass through fire in order to come out as oil.
That, is an amazing story to tell. Should oil become a living sentient being, able to remeber all that it had gone through, its life experience would surely be something scholars would research for years on end.
Today, we extract oil from the ground and it feels like its been that way forever.
A story of progress is unfolding
So like I was saying before the examplary diversion, a story, can be gotten only when you open your eyes!
Today, I am looking at a story. A story of change, of prosperity and progress.
I am looking at the story of africa in a few years to come. Not the Africa we know of now, the one where a coup is currently, seemingly going on i n the country of Zimbabwe. Not the Africa where pirates roam free around the "horn" of Africa. Not the Africa where Nigerians are known as scammers and the citizens of countries are confused with one another.
I am looking at an African continent with the ability to utilize Cryptos to better itself. I am looking at an African continent where SMTs and tech unite to form a new age of revolution in the continent.
Its not an easy story to look at, and its an even harder story to write.
But I am writing my part, we all must come together to write our own part of the African story.
A story to make #africa #unchained
great things are coming
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