Do you hate the way people relate to you? Are angry about the level of corruption in the country? Are you angry at the level of backwardness in sport, education and technology not only among our fellow African countries but the world at large? Are you angry that you came from a poor home? I am sure that these things bother you as much as I am.
Often times than not we are confronted with conditions and experiences that is against our wishes. If you take a critical and selfless look from the inside of your life you will find that you are in one way or the other contributing to increasing this things or reducing them. The rugged and evil world that we live in is as a result of the cumulative irresponsibility, wickedness, selfishness and rebellion of individuals.
You can effect a little change which can be like a seed that grows into a tree and produce fruit of revolution, reformation and transformation of our dear world. A little spark of fire can put the whole forest ablaze. People like Nelson Mandela and Martins Luther King Jnr started something that latter lead to the freedom of equal right of both Blacks and the Whites in South Africa and the United State of American respectively. Something that seem unachievable in their dispensation. Williams Wilberforce also started something that lead to the abolishment of slave trade, a phenomenon that can be traced to the beginning of the world. It is not the beginning of it that matters; it might be tough and rough even but keep on. The world will not celebrate you when you start but even your enemies will rejoice with you when you win (succeed). Someone once said success has many relatives and friends. It attracts people to you as flower attracts honey bees.
If every one of us will begin to be responsible for our actions and in our duties, the world will be transformed to a good place where every one of us will be pleased to live in. If every parent raise to their responsibility, every child to their responsibility and young person to their responsibilities then there would not be the negative things that we see all around us. The corruption we see today actually starts in the house, it creeps to the neighborhood, walk to the churches and mosques and fly to the organizations both public and private organizations. We
say the country is corrupt, but the question is who is the country? Isn’t it you and me?
If our mama shares food to every child equally and daddy give allowances to every child equally then corruption can be wiped out little by little. Daddy wears N20,000 naira shoe but mummy scarcely wear N1000 naira shoe. Then the children manage with a tore sandal and threadbare shirt to school. The parents are responsible for nursing the child at infant and nurturing them from kids through teenage and to adulthood by giving them the right nutrition for their physical health and the right morals. The right moral can be instilled into a child through discipline and living life in such a way that the children can proudly emulate. Zig Ziglar’s mama said “be careful the way you act because the children learn from what you do than what you say. When every home is morally sound then the whole nation is sound because the nation is the family and the family the nation.
Many will say every body is doing it; you have to know that you are not every body. Every good thing your eye has ever beheld and every good thing you have heard about was done by one person. Someone once said great things are done by individual not a group. Why done you be the first person to follow the right procedure, refuse to pay and take bribe, and refuse to cheat in and exams etc? That single act of yours might be ridiculous and insignificant but that can plant a seed in someone else’s mind that can germinate someday. Be the first person to do things right in that office, school, neighborhood, market, church or mosque. Your can encourage and challenge someone by that one act of doing it the right way. Stand out and begin to do the right thing. You Can the best person to do it right.
