We often pray, beg, burn incense nor even slaughter livestock to perform a ceremony to plead with our ancestors to provide us with our hearts’ desires nor the goals we seek to achieve that we deem not feasible to attain.
Those are generally accepted nor recognized ways of inducing those who have the powers over what we desire, to find it in their hearts to kindly offer us what we seek.
But what happens when they oblige?
What happens when we finally acquire what we’ve been in dire need of?
The biggest calamity is the idea of not familiarizing our subconscious minds with the three important phrases that are deemed miniature but produce colossal results. The magical words are “please", “thank you” and “I’m sorry”. It is utterly kenspeckle that these words seem small but their impact cannot be neglected. The most painful part is the fact that modern Africans are tardily losing hold of those significant words that have always been embedded in our culture and in the subconscious minds of a preponderance of our predecessors.
Who should we blame for the loss of this enormously significant culture? The youth nor the remaining elders who, often indulge in lambasting the youth for making mistakes that every young person in any era does, due to lack of profound knowledge?
However, I infer we hold every human being who neglects to utilize their receptivity to impel effective communication and deeper understanding of others nor the ones who eschew sharing their profound knowledge with the younger generation, accountable.
Our biggest obstacle, as a nation is the mentality that we are so deeply emotionally attached to, which is to react quicker than we understand. Simply, we often choose to react quicker instead of taking a moment to pause and attempt to delve deeper to understand what our interlocutors are trying to achieve.
We are severely confused, as a nation that we have developed this devout belief of entitlement. We always want to get, but are tremendously reluctant when it’s our responsibility to provide. The biggest misunderstanding of the century, indeed.
This mentality of handouts has programmed us to be these greedy individuals who comprise this uncongenial receptivity which makes us convince ourselves that we are obliged to get, not to give!
The mentality of giving is tardily dwindling nor becoming extinct. One cannot be oblivious to the conspicuous growth of the mentality nor concept that is gaining power over the minds and lives of modern Africans, which is know as “black tax". Most young Africans go to varsity as minors who still depend on their families for varsity expenses, yet when they graduate and start to join the working force, they now see the same family who sacrificed Lord knows what, in order to offer them to ameliorate their lives; now they use the term “black tax" to justify the rotten applesauce mentality of forgetting those who have helped them get what they’ve acquired.
How foolish can Africans be?
We have become so attached to materials so much that we even neglect those who have played a crucial role in ensuring that we acquire all the things we often say we’ve worked hard for; we often hear public figures, nor musicians use phrases like “self-made" nor “I did it all by myself”. Now there’s no form of imbecility that surpasses the one where someone who has reached their pinnacle, suddenly is drowning in utter oblivion of the collective effort that was invested in their success. The power of gratitude is being tremendously neglected by the modern Africans, then they act surprised when they start losing all their fortune and blame the devil…when the true devil is, actually, the dimwit who remembers that he must ask in order to get, but when he gets…he forgets where he got what he has.
Therefore, my fellow Africans, I implore you not to neglect the most powerful act of life, which is gratitude. Hence, humans were given necks so they would not neglect where they come from.
Get, but never forget where you got what you have nor the ones who contribute to your success…
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