Hhmm…an effort aimed at answering this question is like that of a scientist trying to answer the question of life itself ─how did life evolve?
The complexity in the question “how can you create a positive change?” in its comparability can be substituted for “how can you create possibility out of impossibility?”
The obstacle is not how to create the change but how to accomplish the phenomenal task of preserving the change when it comes. And to answer this question, I will like to ask some questions; questions that are meant to be pondered on by a generation concerned with its future (if it has any) development.
Who can single-handedly create the positive change?
Me? Alas! An attempt to solve the problems posed to humanity my own way would simply portray me as living in the fool’s paradise. People have tried, yes; they have…men, women; the young, the old; genii; activists; moralists; preachers…they have tried to curb the imbalance in our society. But our defiant nature has made us unyielding. People with positive ideas and ideologies had stipulated, and they also gave us the portrait that can be used as yardstick to measure a purposeful life.
Recently, a national congress was held in Nigeria; it brought together people with perfect idealism who naturally could proffer un-delayed solution to our economic problems.
Was their effort fruitful? Or better still, was their efforts successful? Only time would tell.
From the above survey, therefore, a positive change requires concerted effort to be achieved. All hands must be on deck. For the desired positive change to be accomplished, we must hunger and thirst for it. We must be relentless, determined, focused and prayerful if we ever want a change. Or are you not fed-up with poverty? Do you seek unrest, militancy, war, famine and poor standard of living all the days of your life? Do you want to remain a refugee forever? Are you not tired of the prison wall?
What will be the portion of the homeless, the jobless, the neglected, the orphans and the stigmatized in the society? Or are you not concerned about their future? Maybe you prefer a console in death like our past compatriots, but I don’t.
A positive change refers to a symbolic transformation of lives and events into a wholesome standard. The role of a catalyst in breaking the ‘limitation energies’ imposed on our future is unutterable.
First, our youths need leadership orientation, seminars and conferences. Since garbage in will produce garbage out, we, children of this day and age, have the inbuilt tendency to be as corrupt as our parents.
For example in Africa, most of the leaders we have been having in this part of the world are opportunists, tyrants, embezzlers and dark minded leaders. Though they knew they are acquiring power for their own self-interest, they would promise heaven and earth before and during their election campaigns. They will promise to solve all our problems at once if elected. After their tenure might have elapsed, in which they would have failed woefully, they would refuse to vacate the seat of power for positive minded people. They prefer to hand-over power to crooked, inhumane, and heartless politicians that have a good working relationship with them. Thus, they continue to embezzle and lavish the money meant for the citizenry, consequently they impoverish their fellow countrymen. How then do we think we can make progress when these arbitrary leaders have form a network against us?
This same set of people has been leading our country for donkey years and we said we want development; if it’s not them, it’s their children; if it’s not their children, it’s their relation; if it’s not their relation, it’s their friends… and this continues in a cycle.
Enough is enough; we are tired of being strangers in our own land. Fraudulent election and electioneering must become a thing of the past. We will support democracy, not some egotistical politicians.
We have abundant riches in form of solid minerals, culture, ideas, and manpower. Our period of succumb to unpatriotic governance is over!
Also, in the quest to create a better world, all forms of direct and indirect discrimination, marginalization, and stigmatization against women must be abolished.
There must be prohibitions on sexist advertising, which ultimately demeans women as human beings. Since all humans are Homo sapiens, both men and women have the same human rights be it fundamental, “possessive” or “acquired” rights. Women should be given a chance to show their skills in political; economic; education; and financial matters. The term “weaker sex” should be abolished, and women must be given the freedom to make meaningful contributions in the society as the equals of men anytime and anyplace.
No single country in the world has a perfect diplomatic relationship with all other countries on the globe.
Individual differences; religious diversity; colour of the skin; race and language are the criteria we use to establish “diplomatic symbiosis” with other countries. In fact most country has no mutual relationship with her neighbouring countries.
They regard citizens of other countries as spies, inferior, infidels and sluggards. This is probably the reason for the series of unending boundary disputes in some countries. In the same context, religious upheavals cannot be overlooked.
The situation of things in the world is such that: we complain that things are bad in the morning; our complaints grew worse in the afternoon, and by evening, the problem would have reached climax (from worse to worst). I cannot remember a day, since I was born on this planet, when people from all lands around the globe were/are happy─ if there’s no accident, there will be war; if there’s no war, there will be plane crash; if there’s no plane crash, there will be stress…prayers that’s all we need on the planet earth to alleviate our problems.
Lastly, since a positive change can only come through concerted effort; you, me, and the rest of the world must determine a change if we truly want transformation and reformation of our lives to a wholesome standard.
Our roles are simple. Though we have lists of inexhaustible negative influences, what we have to do when we are pushed to the wall is…in case of…
Bribery ─ reject it, follow due process.
Fraud ─ expose the perpetrators, cry out!
Child mutilation ─ report them to the police, sue them in court.
Racism ─ stop it! Embrace culture relativity.
War ─ we can prevent it; human beings are not chickens, please dialogue.
Prostitution ─ arrest those culpable; women are not to be used as sex-symbols; sex education is a must for all teenagers.
Unemployment ─ learn craft if you are unemployed; provide jobs if you are an employer; learn sports; agriculture will surely make you an income earner.
Bad company ─ run-away from evil friends, work with cultured people.
Laziness ─ don’t condole it; work harder.
Low income ─ work harder to earn more income; study well, you will find a good job in the future. Your labour shall not be in vain.
Poverty ─ government should help its citizen; the rich should assist the poor; the poor with nobody to help him, should look for an arable land for farming. We will break the jinx of poverty.
Famine ─ government and international agencies should co-operate on irrigation; food provision, etc
Emigration ─ can be curbed by improving living and working conditions in our developing countries.
Litigation ─ give to your neighbour what is rightly his.
Libel and Slander ─ discourage it; sensitize the press; speak against it.
Hiv/Aids─ stop casual sex; encourage monogamy, marriage is ideal.
Pessimist ─ try and understand, you are alive because you have a working anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. God will help us in our bid to secure a positive change for the world.
Sexual immorality ─ stop it! Shun pornography, stop the showing and acting of nude movies, we don’t need them; we all know men and women are meant to marry and have sex as couple. So, we don’t need sex movies to show us how to, or how they have sex!
Child abuse ─ arrest those culpable.
Child slavery and woman slavery ─ eschew it; give all children from all race equal rights; women have dignity, bestow it on them.
Chauvinism, insularity ─ be good ambassadors of your people/ country, love your neighbour as yourselves.
If at this 21st century we still fight wars with rockets, bombs and guns when we are at loggerheads with our neighbour (country or human being), then, we humans are too recalcitrant; we are not yet ready to learn, unlearn, and re-learn.
At this jet age, our intelligence should be used to better our lives and not eliminate it. We should desist from accumulation of weapons of mass destruction…atomic bomb, nuclear bomb or nuclear pile accidents may wipeout all living things out of this planet earth.
It’s hard to soar like an eagle when you work, dine, sleep, and receive ideas from turkeys.
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