Digging in the dirt

It is only when you start to count your blessings one by one that you realise that there is so much to smile about in our lives than the dropped jaws we so often have. In this fraternity, that seems to thrive in dung like a beetle by concentrating on negative reports, it is important that we turn over the leaf and also write about the positive things in our lives, our people and our government. We seem to expend too much energy on writing about negative stories happening in all the corners of our country by society, civic organisations and government, while the good attributes get little or lukewarm publicity. We seem to be drowning in this long-held belief that it is the negative stories that push our circulation figures up. While we do not condone sweeping the dirt under the carpet, it is the balancing act that we are advocating for. Instead of seeding a spirit of failure, incompetence and ignorance, the country would thrive more if inspirational stories are churned out more. We would, in the process inspire our citizens and root out the feeling of despair and dejection. As some say that the pen is mightier than the word, let us be wary of what we pen and feed our nation with. If a child lives with praise they learn to appreciate and if a child is lives with hostility, they learn to blame. The Biblical version of this is “What you profess with your mouth will come to pass,” so let us be wary of what we say about ourselves as a nation. Therefore, let us not fill our lives with negativity or feed the people with retrogressive information when this country has earned accolades of positive attributes regionally, and internationally. It is only when we sit down and start to enumerate our positive attributes that we will fully appreciate what a wonderful place this would be if we concentrate on strengthening the good of this country. The bad must be known, we fully agree, but let us also find the beautiful stories.