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“The grass looks greener on the other side” an aphorism, often uttered by those who view their land with utter contempt. Hence, Elon Musk once said “Where your attention goes, your energy flows”. According to Merriam Webster, there are three kinds of definitions for the word attention, but the one which caught my attention was “special care or treatment”, energy also has the same number of definitions, but the one that attained my eye was “natural enthusiasm, and effort”. In all honesty, this introduction has provided a lucid exegesis of this concept. However, I’ll delve deeper to utterly open your eye.

The farmers are responsible for ensuring that the whole population is well fed. Their objective cannot be fulfilled if they neglect the land they own which produces all the food that the nation and other parts of the world depend on. Therefore, they are well aware that it is imperative for them to work their land until it produces the anticipated results. 

What happens when a farmer’s land is deemed infertile or impotent to yield crops?

Does the farmer invest most of his time in fixing his focus on another farmer’s land? Does he seek various ways of being effectively querulous? I’d be lying if I say I’ve seen one of the farmers opt for such options. 

Why do we, as the human race, choose to embrace and be devout believers of the green grass aphorism? Why do we choose to fix our focus on other people’s lives in lieu of fixing our own lives? One thing, I’m certain every individual possess, is problems and obstacles. Only a cadaver is free of earthly problems; I still doubt, considering our ancestors and Jesus. It seems, I am utterly uncertain whether it is still inconspicuous or we choose to eschew the responsibility of investing all our efforts in ameliorating our own lands. 

We witness stories of Africans who end up altering their fellows into cadavers, subsequent to their evergreen envy of their fellows' success. From neighbours who bewitch one another due to the other’s improvement, to taxi owners who also send one another to big sleep owing to the success of one’s business. 

Why does it always have to be like that in the African communities? 

How long will things be like that?

Hence, we all have our own lives and we have the same amount of time per day; what creates a disparity between us is how each of us utilizes their time. This generation of self-consciousness is severely suffering emotionally and spiritually, and what’s worse is that the general population seems to be utterly oblivious to the calamity that may arise. It seems like the world has been altered into a land where mirrors are ubiquitous and the reflections seem to be inextricable. Everyone looks like someone else; nobody invests their effort in shining differently. It’s more like the chief population contending for a single bulb in Thomas Edison’s supermarket. We are tardily deviating our focus from magnifying or exalting the idea of perpetuating individuality within our communities; however, I implore you not to misinterpret my words, by the term “individuality” I don’t mean Africans should practice the opposite of uniting. I’m elucidating the idea of being comfortable in one’s peculiarity. Of course, we all live for the common goal of creating a society better than the one we lived in a decade ago and, mostly, ensuring that we create a better future for the next generations to come. 

However, we need to emanate and magnify the significance of ameliorating oneself and training our subconscious minds not to perceive a fellow African’s milestone as a threat or an obstacle to our journey or our own crescendos. 

We need to learn to master the art of investing most of our time in ameliorating ourselves as individuals, while also being able to care for one another and interacting with one another without our faces turning green in the presence of our fellow siblings' success. Our biggest fight is not racism or white privilege nor supremacy, our biggest opponent is self!

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