by Odunuga

Created on: June 10, 2008

THE WASTES OF THE AGE OF HASTE

Everybody is in a hurry, everyone seems to be too busy for toddlers, and we are not taking out time to teach, impart values and truth into the kids. Everybody is running just to get there. Everyone wants to win one thing or the other, to gain something, somewhere, somehow. Nobody gives a hoot about the little beings .those who are less privilege are more pained. So hasten up, to hasten up is to lead and win. No one considers that there are others in wheels elsewhere well deserving the same thing. We must go now, we scream, stampeding; scoring selfishly and scrambling. We struggle for tickets and payments. We hurry for buses, hunker for seats and morenot knowing that, somehow, it jolts God when we gain our victories at the expense of others.

Somewhere in the third world countries, where the opportunities are much slimmer, the cases are much terrible. We are as good as Sunday mornings. We are ever kind in church settings only. We are solemn at events that demands sober reflections. We are slow and polite at funerals. After which, the days and times of solemnity is over. Even in the first and second world countries; it is "all man for himself, God for us all, whoever is slow, let the devil take him". Sometimes I wonder how many prey we will give away for the devil to take. The discipline of the military, especially the army is ever exciting to me. You are never left behind in warfrontsin the face of firings and bombings, maimed, dying, hopeless and uncertain. The troop will never leave without you. Even if it is your dead body; they must bring you home as such. It was loyalty to the core. it was a discipline of commitment to fellow soldiers.

Can we still wait for others, can we offer a right of passage, and can we endure a small space in a crowded bus? A very small seat space beside a very fat passenger? Can we encourage others in the same pain? Do we still consider chivalry? I am asking how many of our brethren, citizen, will we allow the devil to take away. Does he have to take anyone at all? After the death and resurrection of Christ? What if in twists of fate; it turns your turn tomorrow to be less privileged? Are we switching roles in our minds? If you fall in the same mishap, what will you do and how will you feel? Whoever told you s/he loves to come in last? S/he does not exist! Will you like to be an Abel? Killed by your own very brother? Or you feel being a Joseph? Abandoned and ignored by your siblings? Sold, separated, detached, un-attended and stripped?

Murdered in thoughts and news, forbidden to speakstammering. Will you like to be a Moses, born and dropped by the river? Supposing to be carried away by water? Never certain you can make it as a baby? Let us be bold to give chivalry a place, to give love a chance, to remember the poor and the needy, to play with the kids and smile at the less privileged. To be nice, kind and humble. And the world will not only heal in itself .it wont just be fit to live in, but the hearts of all ,will be healed. This is the movement from stone-heartedness to loving kinded-ness.

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