I WEEP FOR MAMA SALONE AND HER CHILDREN The response to the oxygen project overtly and covertly, is one of the reasons why Mama Salone is the way it is today. We keep complaining and griping about the fact that foreigners seems to be doing better than us in The LAND THAT WE LOVE, and yet we fail to realize that we are the ones responsible for that. I keep saying and still maintain, that we are our own worst enemies. Our inability to work collaboratively and harmoniously stems from the fact that we relate to each other with suspicion, ill motives and envy. We are a long way from understanding the secret to greatness which is the ability to make another person great. We have developed an attribute that used to only belong to God which the ability to judge the motives and intents of others instead of their words and actions. Our nation is what it is today in terms of our sociology due to this mercenary and destructive nature and culture we have developed towards one another.. We judge each others motives based on our nefarious motives and retrogressive way of thinking. There is a Foday Sankoh nature lurking inside each of us. Our inability to rejoice when others are being blessed or doing well is what is destroying us as a people and nation. Our lives are filled with malice, jealousy, envy, ingratitude, slander, back stabbing, ill will, bitterness, anger, hopelessness and blatant hatred. We tend to gloat and rejoice when bad things happen to those we have ill feelings towards for no just cause. It is indeed a shame that what some of us criticize about people and situations in Sierra Leone, we are guilty of but cant see that our lives mirror those very negative and destructive things. The time is rife for us to have a discussion about this cancer that is killing us and destroying our country. We have allowed politics, politicians, ethnicity, sectionalism, elitism, and regionalism to continue to divide us and to see each other through lenses tainted by these barriers. What will it take to promote a feeling and culture of nationalism and patriotism that will promote and advance a progressive agenda for ourselves and our nation? What are the hidden and unspoken issues that are causing us to distrust each other? How can we address these issues in a constructive way and start the process of trust building and national cohesion?
Posted on: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:48:37 +0000
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