By Beek Mabior, Nairobi, Kenya
Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (PW) — To individuals of our country, kindly allow me to takes your time and read this remarkable analysis and endorsement on how an individual’s citizen can achieve success and avoid becoming a senseless problem, burden and disaster in our various societies in South Sudan. We all know that life without success is a recipe for suffering and slavery but not for suicide in this contemporary world.
The article is not meant to attack and vilify anyindividual’s citizen in our country either directly or indirectly and its main motive is to encourage and inspire some of our people to takes hard work seriously in order for them to achieve success and better life.
I want some of our people who’re work-shy and have low self-esteem, low self-confidence, laziness, lack of hard work, lack of determination, mediocrity and inferiority complex to find hope and inspiration so that they can achieve success, better life and respect in the society. So this message is an inspiring and educative message to such people in our society.
Moreover, I’m fully aware of the greatest spirit of hard work and determination of our great citizens when it comes to carry out a task and achieve success and better living standard in our beloved South Sudan. I just want to give helpful commendation to our fellow citizens.
Our citizens are very hardworking and resilient when it comes to executing undertakings and accomplish results of achievementsand this was clearly demonstrated during the years of civil warswith the North Sudan until we accomplished our self-rule and liberty.
However, if you’re a keen observer nowadays, then I hope you’d have noticed some hilarious and lazy characters in our country today who do not want to work completely and they want to rely on their family members, relatives, friends and the general public to provide them with basic necessities of life.
Such compatriots want free money, foods, clothes, shelter and gifts from other hardworking citizens who’ve other commitments and responsibilities to take care of; their immediate families and themselves as well. They hardworking South Sudanese are humans who invest their times, energies, and resources to pursue their social, academic and economic dreams and goals in order for them to find success and better living standard by all means.
They’re men and women of great commitment and perseverance who aspire to put our country in the path of success, durable peace and greatness and they’ve no times to lazy around and waste their precious God-given talents and potentials for nothing. They’ve no time even to participate in the internal useless politically-motivated and ethnically-motivated civil wars of South Sudan that’ve no value in life entirely.
But they’re men and women of great intelligence, resilience, patriotism and bravery who can participate only in meaningful and necessary wars such as deliberate foreign aggressive attack on our motherland or some other meaningful minor conflicts that can be fight intellectually and amicably through peaceful means such as negotiation, diplomacy and amicable acceptance of reforms socially, economically and politically without pursuing senseless conflicts in our country that always lead to unnecessary loss of precious innocent souls.
Furthermore, I’m fully aware likewise about the greatest generosity, kindness, hospitality and oneness of South Sudanese people when it comes to sharing things and accommodating people. It is also politically correct and true to acknowledge that despite the non-stop useless political and communal conflicts in our nation.
Most of our citizens have persistently maintained a highest spirit of humanity even during economic meltdown and political war in our nation and some sluggish and manipulative people have taken advantage of that and abuse it. Some have even considered it to be a weakness which is not true.
Additionally, some of the rest of mankind used to view and think of us as a war-like and rude people because of the constant wars in our country. They never knew that we’re a leading nation in the whole of Eastern Africa region when it comes to generosity, kindness, friendship and hospitality despite being notoriously branded as the most violent nation in Africa due to wicked wars.
It is only in South and North Sudan where you can find one person accommodating and feeding over twenty people and you cannot find such a person even in America, Russia and Chinawhich are the biggest economies on earth.
Our fellow Africans in the horn of Africa and the rest of the world know that both South and North Sudan have a deep-seated humanity and hospitality although they do fight among themselves. A real South Sudanese will never allow his/her brother or sister to die of hunger just because of the evil political war, bigotry, nepotism, tribalism and animosity. For instance, I myself, I cannot and will never allow a Nuer’s brother and sister to die of hunger if I’m in a position to help.
I cannot watch and doing nothing to assist just because some heartless elements in our country have incite us to hate and kill each other. I rather help a fellow South Sudanese from hunger and murder by an outsider than to shamefully and cowardly watch and do nothing when his or her life is in danger. I rather wait to fight back in self-defense when attack than to offend a fellow citizen impulsively and fight for no good intention or political purpose altogether.
There’ll be no day that I’ll live in South Sudan alone without my fellow citizens. In addition to that, some of us need to know that life is not all about being in an office. You can make a living even without being in an office and there’s no shame about it. There’s that dishonorable misconstruction in South Sudan that if you’re not in an office, then you’re a nobody in the society. It is an invalid misapprehension that need rectification and rethinking.
In conclusion, they lethargic and exploitative South Sudanese need to embrace hard work and determination for them to succeed. They need to have goals and dreams that they’ll work on them and achieve success instead of them being a burden and useless problem to the society.
They need to stop fearing failure, hard work and challenges for them to be successful in life. You can never succeed without failing, failing is not the conclusion but the step to succeed. Failure helps you to learn what not to do in future. You should try to evaluate why did you fail; rather than crying over the spilled milk. Dreams are not made up of scratch free glasses.
We all are crazy behind someone, some charming personality, someone we respect or someone we would like to become, some qualities of some people that we fall for. All this is a byproduct of hard work. As you can turn failure into success, it allows you to become like one of those people. Hard work is the key to self-satisfaction.
We live for satisfaction and happiness and one of the key ingredients in the recipe for success is hard work. It brings the joy of being satisfied. Don’t dream of success, work for it. Millionaires also weren’t that good at handling theirmoney, investing wisely or networking. It took them years, trial and error, and patience to make a fortune.
So the hard work, together with time it takes, is a must on your journey to success. It makes you who you’ve to turn into in order to live the better life. What’s more, the harder you work on your dreams, the more confident you become. Those who lack self-esteem also lack determination and end up losing hope and giving up.
But by investing enough energy in hard work. You start believing in yourself more, you’re sure that you’ll succeed and you’ll not become a burden to anyone and no one can put you down anymore. Hard work gives you a purpose, it helps you overcome laziness, procrastination, your doubts, fear of failure, insecurities, and your bad habits.
Average people spend a great deal of time waiting for things to happen. They make countless excuses in order to postpone taking action, and are distracted all the time. But people with goals and dreams, on other hand, constantly do something and try new stuff to move forward and create opportunities for success. Success must be found each day, in the small accomplishments.
We must find success in the little prizes of keeping our word and developing positive habits, of getting past our own self-imposed limitations and mile-stones. And remember before any climax there is pain and hard work. And before any triumph, there is a struggle and failure.
And remember life is short, and it is up to you to make it delicious. So let us all embrace hard work and we’ll succeed together and build a better and prosperous South Sudan.
The author is a student and concerned South Sudanese citizen who can be reached via his Email:betterarticle165@gmail.com