January 2010

Our lives are determined at times by the answers we have to our own questions.

Answers translated into action by implementation.

Every question asked a mere reflection of what we desire.

Maybe by presenting the question to someone else it will cease to be my burden, we think

Some questions demand a lot from us, my enlightened colleagues’ came up with a tag line that say’s “Think about it” a challenging statement indeed, one that inspires one to be beyond the realm of comfort, and one that confronts our norm and propels us to be more than what we are.

My colleagues in this case are very young professionals trying to pave their way in the maze we call life, no different from myself and you the esteemed reader of this article. Something happened to them to inspire such profound words. I would safely say the need for change happened, they envisioned the change they desired and implemented it. They stopped and heard the music. From thought Intellect was born.

When we think and come across challenging questions we ponder on them, we still ourselves in the moment and give it more time than other presenting questions.

Amazingly as much as we are different we have similarities, our lives entwined in the tapestry of the fears and challenges we face, the questions that confront us and demand our commitment to the answers.

When we get the answers we have no choice but to act, it is the need to get answers that drives us to implement the change, it is through that need that we seek relentlessly to get those answers that enable us to bear the much sought after fruits of change.

No question is stupid and there are no right or wrong answers hence it is good to have as many questions as one can possible entertain, if we stopped questioning we would cease to exist. Change comes through scrutiny of the present.

Think about questions that inspire a contribution towards change, those lead that us to making an effort to understanding our environment and our leaders, questions that inspire patriotism especially in this day. questions that challenge us to do more than sit on the sidelines and judge.

One has to think about it, really questioning beyond the obvious. I would apply it to the current state of our politics there is a lot underlying and until we stop seeing the obvious and formulating questions that bear no substance to the matters at hand, then we will forever be caught in the abyss of stagnancy and non-progression, A scenario of crabs trying to get out a bucket.

One imagines a nation that is open to change, that contributes through its inhabitant’s positive change rather than its own demise.

It has been overdone, people misquote it and correctly quote it, but if you want change you have to be the change you want to see (Mahatma Gandhi). It is no use complaining and not taking responsibility for your part in changing what makes you uncomfortable.

As we ponder on the questions may it be so that we begin to be a nation of change agents’ people ready to change what does not work for what does, our answers may truly determine our lives as we translate them to action.