Lose Your Mind, Find Your Life: 🧠🧬🏭

Published: Sun, 04/20/25

Updated: Sun, 04/20/25

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do - Steve Jobs

There’s something almost wild you must accept if you’ll ever live the life that’s calling you.
You have to lose your mind a little—on purpose.
The world will call you crazy for dreaming big, for choosing art over safety, for loving loudly or daring to rest in a culture obsessed with hustle. But sometimes, sanity is just well-practised fear. And madness? Conscious madness? That’s freedom disguised.
Let me explain.

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I didn’t start writing because it made sense. I wrote because it was the only thing that made me feel alive. Stories saved me from the drudgery of my life at the time. It helped me process grief, fear, love—and they gave me glimpses of realities not yet lived. That’s the power of conscious creation. You don’t write the future without analyzing the past. You also write it by imagining what’s never been and daring to believe it belongs to you.

🚀 Pan-African Space Saga Challenge: Charting New Stars! 🚀

The stars have called, and Africa has answered! We invite you to join us in imagining a future where Africa leads the world in space exploration and colonisation. Share your visions of interstellar adventures, groundbreaking discoveries, and the vibrant cultures of spacefaring African communities.

Challenge Details: Craft stories or create images depicting the missions, life, and adventures of the crew members from the African space agency. Whether it's a thrilling battle with space pirates, a diplomatic mission to a distant galaxy, or the discovery of a new habitable planet, your submissions should highlight Africa's leadership and innovation in the cosmos.

How to Enter:

Narrative or Artwork: Submit either a short story (up to 2000 words) or a digital artwork that captures a scene from your Pan-African space saga.

Crew Details: Introduce us to at least one member of your crew. Include their background, role in the space agency, and a glimpse into their personal journey.

Innovative Elements: Detail the technology or unique systems that the African space agency uses in space exploration. How do these innovations reflect African ingenuity?

Judging Criteria:

Creativity and Originality: How unique and engaging is your space saga?

Cultural Representation: How well does your entry showcase African heritage and futuristic innovation?

Narrative/Artistic Quality: For stories, how compelling and well-crafted is the narrative? For artwork, how visually captivating and technically proficient is the piece?

Integration of Space Elements: How effectively do you incorporate space exploration and colonization themes?

Prizes:

🥇 First Place: Feature in our next newsletter, a $150 Amazon gift card, and an exclusive interview to discuss your creation.

🥈 Second Place: Your work featured in our newsletter and a $100 Amazon gift card.

🥉 Third Place: Mention in our newsletter and a $50 Amazon gift card.

Submission Deadline: 4th May 2025

Submit Your Space Sagas: Email your entries to marksmanstudios1@gmail.com with the subject line "Pan-African Space Saga Challenge".

I think about this whenever I hear someone say, “Be realistic. Black people in extraordinary circumstances. Who wants to read that?”
Realistic? The pyramids were once considered impossible. So were aeroplanes. So was a Black man becoming President of the United States. Every extraordinary outcome once lived in someone’s private madness. And what made it real? Their decision to believe—louder than the world’s doubt.

When you decide to live differently, to step into a version of yourself you haven’t yet met, people will get uncomfortable. They might smile politely while secretly hoping you return to “normal.” But you weren’t born for normal. You were born to evolve. And evolution has never been tidy.
It’s a messy ting!

I’ve had to reassess the idea that the universe would give me what I requested by sitting cross-legged, visualizing my dreams, and hoping my goals drop into my lap.
It may take a lifetime for me to understand the mechanism behind manifestation. But the real magic? It’s in the decision to change your internal state, even when the external world hasn’t caught up yet. That takes madness. Conscious madness.
Not recklessness. Not denial. But the kind of intentional delusion that lets you act like the person you want to become—even when you have every reason to stay who you are.

People don’t talk enough about the discomfort of becoming. We say we want new outcomes but rarely want the identity shift that precedes them. That’s the hard part. Because your subconscious doesn’t update just because you want it to—it updates when your choices force it to.

The job you want? It requires a you that doesn’t second-guess every decision.
The love you want? It calls for a you that isn’t still writing scenes from an old heartbreak.

The peace you crave? It demands a you who no longer feeds off inner chaos.

So, when I say madness, I’m not saying throw logic out the window. I’m saying stretch it until it ‘Pop!’. Let go of the tight script that’s kept you boxed in. Rewrite the narrative. Walk into the version of yourself you’ve only visited in dreams.
Reality doesn’t respond to what we want. It responds to who you are.

The future version of you—the confident one, the joyful one, the one who isn’t constantly waiting for permission—is already here, waiting for you to tune in. But to reach your future self, you must stop asking for signs and start being the sign.
That’s how I write now. Not from who I was, but from who I’m becoming. Every word I put down is a declaration: this is the life I choose to build. This is the reality I’m calling in. And it might look like madness to some—but it feels like truth to me.

So here’s my invitation: Be bold enough to lose your mind, Gentle Reader. Then, rebuild it as something worthy of the life you know is possible.
Because you’re not here to be realistic.
You’re here to lose your mind.

Peace, love and power.