Possible rewards of blindness and curiosity among the people of South Sudan
4 min readBy Awuol Gabriel Arok, Juba, South Sudan
August 4, 2017 (SSB) — ‘‘Until we are able to identify our crops by their flowers we will be having problems of identifying our food crops.’’ It is a sightless pride and an open curse to identify ourselves in the far background of our bodily marks, environmental and genetically appearances.
It never cost anything regrettable to just give two words of ‘’thank you’’ as an appreciation for work of humanity, giving consent and suggestion where they fit is the unique character of mankind, human beings are simply human because of undisputed universal flesh, bones, and blood, only physical look that sometimes bury the three and very important parts of human.
People of South Sudan have to accept themselves as just people of the Republic of South Sudan than to be loyalists of tribes, regions, government, FDs, IO-Juba, IO-Pagak or any other rebels groups in the bush and elsewhere.
What benefit will a parent of the dying child gain from supporting any of the groups than to concentrate on the remedies of bailing out his agonizing and dying child? What benefit will the orphans of these chronic and recurrence Juba-Nimule roads and numerous victims of various roads and towns earn from any of the groups apart from trauma and suffering?
What benefit will the hungry citizen who these days walk to work earn from negative propaganda and incitements? What benefit will exposure of our country internal life guys deliver apart from the negativity of our identity and sovereignty?
What benefit will sons and daughters fighting and killing one another across the country gain when the pots of craziness are taken from the people of South Sudan?
The only super reward from that Venetian blindness and hollow loyalty is hunger, chronic poverty, illiteracy, large numbers of orphans, widows, widowers and a countless number of unmarked graves leading to the disappearance of national pride and patriotism, can that be claimed as a meaningful reward?
Why can someone be proud of killing his father, mother, and children for the sake of getting fake and bloodied military rank? Who exactly is he going to protect in the military after he has massively butchered those he is supposed to defend?
Violence has never been a solution to grievances without adding more grievances, democracy and right to choose leaders has been formulated by those who introduced it to the world as a way of finding a solution to people’s grievances.
Which actually if abuse by someone is the only and rightful time where people can turn to violence after all the windows of negotiations fail but for the case of South Sudan I don’t see the reason as to why we took violence as the best option since no one has democratically been denied his democratic rights.
And sincerely the government of South Sudan has been formed on the pillars of regional and ethnically balancing since 2005 till today, elections were knocking at our doors but we notoriously denied them entrance and instead rushed into the bathing pools full of muddy water and regrets.
Looking into an example of a rude Parent, any caring parent must appreciate the heartily and warmly consciousness of any human who takes his time to lend a hand to unfamiliar children across the busy and dangerous traffic to the safer side where their proud guidance is waiting for them, but because of insincere human instincts in some individuals.
Just immediately after the good Samaritan handover the safety of the little innocent children to their rude and immediate guidance and before he returns to continues with his interrupted mission, sadly and amusingly he has to answer some few strange questions from the unrewarding guidance; questions of who told you to accompany these kids?
Did I sent you to bring them to me and dramatically to the children, ‘‘you useless children never ever accept any assistant from the strangers’’ such act is an indicator of empty and foolish hatred.
Why can someone mind of a stranger who has voluntarily assisted the children from the uncaring behaviors of numerous other unknown strangers who don’t want their missions and assignments interrupted?
‘‘Generalization and egoistic sampling can never quench one desire but puts on flames of self-oppression’’ author.
Awuol Gabriel Arok, a Writer, and a Poet, has a Bachelor Degree in Community Studies and Rural Development from The University of Juba, South Sudan. He is the author of unpublished book ‘‘The Wisdom Horn’’ and an Initiator of ‘‘Your Tribe is My Tribe’’ and ‘‘Giving Heart Foundation’’ initiatives. He can be reached via his email Address: jjmkamzeearokson@yahoo.com
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