Dear Editor,
"Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die; don't ask me why." (Bob Marley)
Happy New Year to all Jamaicans! Health, harmony and happiness are my traditional wishes for everyone. Peace, progress and prosperity are also favourite wishes extended.
Prosperity seems elusive for many, and an unfulfilled dream for the majority. Our past 50 years, post-independence, have shown quite a contrasting picture. We have excelled in a few areas; but in many others, opportunities have been squandered. Blessed with an abundance of natural resources and a strategic location in the Americas, we have not been most resourceful.
We are what we think and do. How strong has been our desire matched with a design, drive and determination (as a nation) to achieve prosperity and first-world status? Given our perilous state of affairs, the obvious question arises: Do Jamaicans love, (or have we simply adapted and resigned ourselves to), economic hardships or suffering as it is commonly called?
When will the change come, or, is it the case we have not suffered hard and long enough? Change is: constantly having alterations, natural growth and enlightenment. But people are generally resistant to change; even for their betterment. John C Maxwell reminded us that people will change, when the pain of remaining the same is far greater than that of changing. When people truly feel the heat, they see the light!
Our people have endured a lot for decades. If severe economic hardships are likened to being in a fire, then, instinctively, people will do everything to get out. But, people sometimes get trapped and killed in fires. Based on our state of affairs, it stands to reason that we are either refusing to get out of our predicament or have simply become trapped under a huge burden of debt and economic dependency.
There are only two clear choices. Get out and live; or stay in and perish.
Daive R Facey
drfacey@gmail.com
When will the change come?
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"Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die; don't ask me why." (Bob Marley)
Happy New Year to all Jamaicans! Health, harmony and happiness are my traditional wishes for everyone. Peace, progress and prosperity are also favourite wishes extended.
Prosperity seems elusive for many, and an unfulfilled dream for the majority. Our past 50 years, post-independence, have shown quite a contrasting picture. We have excelled in a few areas; but in many others, opportunities have been squandered. Blessed with an abundance of natural resources and a strategic location in the Americas, we have not been most resourceful.
We are what we think and do. How strong has been our desire matched with a design, drive and determination (as a nation) to achieve prosperity and first-world status? Given our perilous state of affairs, the obvious question arises: Do Jamaicans love, (or have we simply adapted and resigned ourselves to), economic hardships or suffering as it is commonly called?
When will the change come, or, is it the case we have not suffered hard and long enough? Change is: constantly having alterations, natural growth and enlightenment. But people are generally resistant to change; even for their betterment. John C Maxwell reminded us that people will change, when the pain of remaining the same is far greater than that of changing. When people truly feel the heat, they see the light!
Our people have endured a lot for decades. If severe economic hardships are likened to being in a fire, then, instinctively, people will do everything to get out. But, people sometimes get trapped and killed in fires. Based on our state of affairs, it stands to reason that we are either refusing to get out of our predicament or have simply become trapped under a huge burden of debt and economic dependency.
There are only two clear choices. Get out and live; or stay in and perish.
Daive R Facey
drfacey@gmail.com
When will the change come?
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