A
glance into our various lives, a peep into what we are normally faced with in
our everyday life; the challenges, the horrors, the problems, the turbulence,
the inconsistency of good happenings, consistent heart breaks, injustice and
corruption fill the air. Disorderliness and selfishness is now the order of the
day. At this point, this writer has no other choice than to admit the fact that
our world today is in a level of dismal-pisma (only God knows what that means).
Brothers now rising up against each
other, parents sacrificing the joys of their children in order to attain a particular
position or it might even be to get a juicy government contract. Hmmn... all we
do now is sigh, because we are growing tired by the hour, our resilience is
becoming weaker, our fathers’ words of encouragement has started to loose its effect on us. Now, I wonder for how long
will we wait, this dark tunnel journey is taking too much time that we have
started losing hope if we will get to the end of it, talk less of beholding the
light.
Horrible and unpleasant news now
serve as our alarms which wake us up every morning. It is either the war in
Mali, or a Church or School getting bombed in the northern parts of our
country, terrorists invading and disrupting the peace of the nation, our
leaders looting our treasury doesn’t even sound like news nowadays because we
are already used to all of the big
figures they spend.
Our global image is nothing to write
home about. We are even treated as criminals on the global scene. What happened
to us, the self acclaimed giants of Africa. A giant who could not even match
the achievements of a dwarf. Oh! what a shame.
In the past years, we all have our
ways of consoling ourselves. The church used to be an avenue of consolation.
The church, a place where one will hear the mind and the undiluted word of God,
but, it is a pity tody as it seems that the church herself has started losing
its taste. The joy of getting God’s heart every time we gather in church is no
longer there, all we do now is replace that joy with a session of jamboree
where all we do is just to sing, shout and dance away our sorrows. The church
this day has now been turned to an alcoholic drink which only makes one to
forget his/her sorrow for a short period of time.
Now, where is the place of refuge?
where shall we hide ourselves from this rottenness? or is it who shall save us
from these problems? Plenty of questions with no answers in sight. The
political leaders have failed us times without number, the church has started
losing her taste, yet we scream everyday we need a revolution, we need a change.
Where will this change come from,
who will spearhead the revolution. Who will go for us, who are those that will
stand in gap for their country, their continent and their generation.
Revolution is a topic that various people most especially political and
economic experts had talked about. Many models had been presented, many
seminars, but with all of these things we still have no solution in sight yet.
What a pity!
After all of these thoughts, I
figured out what we need to do, how we need to go about our quest for
revolution. We need a change, am I stating the obvious? yes! a change, a long
lasting one. Below is a chorus part of a song that was performed in the movie:
A Joyful Noise:
I
am starting with the man in the mirror,
I
am asking him to change his ways,
and
no message could have been any clearer,
if
you wanna make the world a better place,
then
take a look at yourself and then make a change.
The lines of that song struck a
chord in me. There and then I thought about it, the change we have all been clamoring for, the revolution we all wanted is here. There is only one person
that needs to be changed, just one person.
Why don't we make that move to
change that person, the man in the mirror. Let the change begin from your room,
take a look at your mirror, change the man in it. That change must start with
you.
Change that orientation that you
have in you. Change your motive of doing things, change your heart of steel
that doesn't care about the feelings of others, change that mentality of
looting government treasury once you get there, start caring about people,
swallow your pride, esteem other people around you. These and a whole lot of
changes are to be carried out in the life of that person in the mirror - you.
Remember the likes of Saddam Hussein,
Osama Bin Laden, Gadhafi, Hitler, Abdul-mutallab, Gen. Sanni Abacha; they were
at some point as young as we are now, if only they had made that paramount
change, the world definitely would have been one of the best places to be.
This much needed and anticipated
change is to start with us. We really need to place ourselves before the
mirrors of life, goodwill, plain heart, pure spirit, love, care, service,
selflessness etc. What are our ratings from these various mirrors...are we that
perfect or we are just unconscious of the log of wood in our eyes while we busy
ourselves with the speck of dust in the eyes of others.
Before you continue the clamor for
change from others, before you start going about ranting about what an evil
world we live in, why not take a time out to look into your mirror. Instill a
better change in that figure’s life first. The change is here, you are the one
hindering it - Change the man in your mirror for the better and this world will
be a better place for each and every one of us.
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