PAST TURNED INSIDE OUT

Gone are the days when young people applauded the aged ones for making life changing decisions for them and annoying are such times when the youngsters are told they are the leaders of tomorrow by fading leader of eon. Frankly, the youths are the leaders of today and as such should be encouraged to feature in decision making forums. Yes, the strength of any nation lies in its human resources many in which most often the youths constitute the majority; unfortunately for long, this fact has been treated with Kid Gloves. The youths have been trampled upon, neglected, forsaken and  bitter as they get, they see it as a game at which two can play thereby taking to different vices with the most recent being kidnappings and bomb blasting which we have never been known for; a consequence of sheer disdain.

For how long should we continue reprimanding or censuring them? Is that going to ever be the way out or is this a cul-de-sac? Why are these youths suddenly on the offensive? Who broke the edge? All these questions and many more keep repeating themselves in our minds and symposiums yet we haven’t gotten any forthright response. Sadly, it is thorny but also candid to say all this ensue because there is a dearth in youth leaders. Consequently, this dearth has caused so many lives to be ruined beyond reformation and is about to set so many others on the path of shambles which is an instance of res ipsa loquitur from our leaders. God forbids. If we have to appraise our relevance as a nation based on the quality of a couple of our past leaders, then we might have to bow our heads in shame but that is a different kettle of fish and I would not want to treat that here.

”Past trends might not have been in our favour however, they have offered us history and a new challenge of leadership”, I can remember stating in a leadership application booklet I prepared last year. True but unfortunately, this has left so many people rather playing the blame game like my friend and colleague Ayo Bankole stated in his article titled The Blame Syndrome. Too bad! We ought to take full responsibility for our life and Jack Canfield in his book The Success Principles stressed that until we can take 100% responsibility for everything that happens in our life we are yet to be ready for success. He shared a life changing formula E + R = O (where E stands for events, R the response and O the outcome) meaning the way you respond to the events in your life would determine whether the outcome would be positive or negative.

A world which cannot care for its few rich certainly cannot carter for its poor plenty so why heap blames on everyone else but yourself.  Wake up. Grow up. Train, measure up and go beyond limits. History and civilization is in our favour.  Taking to crime would only make the world even less secured for our wards yet unborn. Let’s reconfigure our minds and aim for the best not settling for less. There are so many excuses for us to remain where we are but when you excuse yourself you accuse yourself because, you always lose out. You can if and only if you can believe you can .