A
lot has been said about our attitudes and characters as a people. We always
want to be at the receiving end of the story where the rewards are mouth
watering and where the story is always successful. Everybody wants to be a part
of what is said to be good, better or best but just when things turn soar or
begin to fall apart, or when there is a form of mistake in the process, you
will see a long queue of fingers pointing to the easiest of prey as to who
started it all.
I want
to share a story with you to get you inspired.
Once
upon a time, there were four good friends in a village called Azizakpo. These
friends were by name Kofi, Lebene, Musa and
Nii. Azizakpo was very far away
from any land and it was all they ever had and knew till they heard of the
nicest place of this world full of gold, diamonds and other precious gems and
stones. This land flows with milk and honey and has the best of vegetation with
the best of flowers and thousand beautiful birds of all kinds. The land has the
best of everything one can dream of, it was paradise itself.
This
land was called ‘Boshe-Krom’ but it
was also said that no man has ever been there or ever lived on this land for it
was a new discovery on planet earth. With all the best things the land has to
offer them and the excitement that thrilled and filled them, they will not back
down but make history they mused and said to each other. These four best
friends had a meeting and deliberated on the possibility of moving from
Azizakpo to this promised land ‘Boshe-Krom’
and they all came to an agreement to do all it will take to get there so they
can better their lives with the richness and resources not only for themselves
but a lasting legacy for many more generations after them.
A ship passes by Azizakpo village once in ten years and they were very sure they
could make the trip in the next full moon per their calendar and calculus
calculations and they will have to be on the watch by the first day of the moon
which was a market day away and they needed to get preparations done on time.
On the day of travel however, their only task was to keep watch and keep an eye
to the passing of the ship so they could embark on this journey of a life time
change to their livelihoods.
Kofi was sure Lebene would do it. Musa could have done it but it ended up that neither friend did it,
before they realised, they missed the only ship that could have taken them to
their promised land and they missed the one opportunity to make history. Somebody got angry about that because it
was everybody’s job. Everybody thought anybody could do it but nobody
realised that Everybody would not do
it.
It
ended up that Kofi blamed Musa, Musa blamed Lebene and Lebene blamed Nii. This
was a simple job that could have been done by anybody among the four friends and
now they would have to wait for perhaps another ten long years to again plan.
THE MORAL OF THE STORY
When
something goes wrong in our families, our places of worship, in the communities,
in our districts, in our municipalities ,in our regions, in our countries and
even in our world of businesses, we are always quick to point fingers and
apportion blames to people, we are always looking for someone or somebody to
blame, snare and pour out our frustrations and angers on, but if anybody can just turn him/herself in for responsibility and leadership for responsiveness,
anybody anywhere can take a clue and
learn from somebody’s experience and everybody can emulate and carry the mantle of leadership and
responsibility to carry us all to the next level and nobody will be responsible
for our misfortunes. The devil will always expect that we push the rest to him
so to boost his ego but I tell you this, even the devil is tired of our
irresponsible acts as human for always pushing things down his throat to
swallow.
Let
us not forget that nobody will come from anywhere to solve our problems. God
will not do for man what man can do for himself. Let us be disciplined and
tolerant enough towards a common agenda and work as a team to get things done
on time so we can all push to the limit and get to our promised land to make
things better than we came to meet it, let live and take decisions that will
shape better futures tomorrow and the generations after us, let’s not live
selfishly for ourselves but have the futures of our children and grand children
at heart in any given decision we make today.
We
cannot afford to fail our generation with same character and attitude possessed
by our grand fathers and fathers, dare to be different and take up the mantle
of leadership and excellence, be noble in your acts like Nelson Mandela, be
courageous in character like Dr Kwame Nkrumah, be peaceful like Prof John Evans
Atta Mills, be strong willed like Mohammed Ali and stand out like Martin Luther
King jnr.
Stop
the blame and be the change you wish to see, let this world get better because
you lived in it, let generations speak of your actions as though you lived even
today.
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