LIVING FOR A REASON by OLUMADEWA ADEBUSUYI OLUTAYO

What do you think life is? Is there anything called life? Why are we living? Is this the best we can be? In this part of the world in which the order of life is a cycle, a cycle that teaches people to train their children to go to nursery, primary, secondary schools to the higher institutions. After this work for few years and then get married and have babies. Then we continue the cycle by training our children to do the same. So many are living like this and are selling the cycle to their children to continue to live like this. Is this what life is all about? Is this the reason we were given birth to? Could this be the ultimate reason for our existence? Someone called this a rat race, a journey leading to nowhere. In fact the environment is not helping .The truth is that if you don’t know where you are going; every road will lead to the place. Asking yourself these questions will help you. Who am I? Why am I like this? Where am I going in life? What do I want for my life? Is Nigeria worth living?

 What does it really mean to live? Is it to follow the cycle which leads to nowhere or to be a professional critic? Is it to acquire wealth false-fully with my environment loosing its importance? Is it to loose a whole generation to indecency and promoting the culture of devaluation, is it to praise looters and award plaques of honour to those who does not have significant impact on the world? 

Albert Einstein said “The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. We eat food that others have grown, wear clothes that others have made; live in houses that others have built. The greater part of our knowledge and belief has been communicated to us by other people through the medium of a language which others have created”. No one is an island on his own. We are all extension of someone and that is the reason we must make our world better than the way we meet it.

Our policies must give hope; communicate values that encourage honesty and brotherly love. If our policies does not communicate leadership, inner victory, and proper direction and cannot be measured 50 years ahead before implementation, it is setback for total failure. If our policy cannot create jobs, it is not yet a policy. if our policy cannot  give healthcare to people, it is not yet a policy.  if our policy cannot  bring food to peoples table, it is not yet a policy.  if our policy cannot  not address the security challenges of our Nation, it is not yet a policy. if our policy cannot   give the shelter to our people, it is not yet a policy.  If our policy cannot promote hard work among the youths, respect for law and communicate the heroic strides of living interdependently for excellence, it is not a policy. If our policy keeps favouring a particular set of people, it is not a policy, if our policy does not encourage freedom of speech, it is not a policy. If our policy does not value human life, it is a total failure.

It is time we become the change we are dreaming off.

By Olumadewa A Olutayo

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