Most of us are familiar with the words:"I love work. I could watch it all day". Or as former US President,Ronald Reagan,once said:"...hard work never killed anybody,so why should I be the first,why take the chance"?Some people in South Africa live by such a motto.
Africa remains the world's poorest inhabited continent,largely due to its aggravated instabilities,increasing corruption,despotism,bad economics and management and the like.
Of all the African countries that made it into the top 20 biggest economies in Africa,South Africa has one of the worst unemployment rates of all with 23.9%. Not as bad as such places like Senegal,Cote d'Ivoire,Cameroon,Kenya and Libya,but still when measured alongside things such as its GDP output,infrastructures and relative longer peacetime periods than most others,it is way short and behind the eight ball line compared to many of the other NIC's or newly industrialized country's.
Though some of us are at times are hungry, homeless, and lacking clothing,should we because that become an excessive burden on others instead working with our own hands? People argue that they should not be the ones apologizing for their situation as they are the victims of circumstance rather than anything else.
But how should the situation be remedied?
Well it takes hard work unfortunately. It could all start by avoiding company with people that discourages working for living.The way we think of ourselves and the situation is a good way forward.
People that disregard the set rules of civilised society and live within their own rules and activities won't get far. Self-sufficiency despite a high cost of living and economic instability that effects ever one,is an art in itself but can be learned.
Far too many poeple covet what others might have taken years to acquire, and then go about wanting and taking it in the most outrages of ways imaginable. Self-sufficiency on the other hand means to be contend with what you have in life. With basic stuff and not try to live beyond your means.
Far too many become preoccupied in getting the "the must have products and gadgets" as shown to them by the media and advertising. They fall victim to the bizarre motto of "I must have that,and have it right now no matter what".
They look at themselves,compared to others,and then become resentful,bitter and envious, because of their limited circumstances. They find it becomes increasingly hard to pay their bills, raise their children, and do the myriad other things needed to keep themselves going. Then too their community isn't helping either so what is there to do,but to you know...
Greed and selfishness takes over and control their every next move. Considerate and balanced reasoning gets tossed aside and the lost of respect for others and by others vanishes. Mankind had been living and suffering from a persistent fever of insecurity. Short-term measures to ease the unpleasant symptoms had been tried by Governments to alleviate the situation, but no cure can come when a comprehensive diagnosis of our situation is too far off.
Should we then remain a burden to others and be a victim of our situation? Or should we just take the tablet and the ice bag and make our symptoms endurable?
References:
1.Funny Quotes.Cool Quotes Collection.
2.BBC News,South Africa profile-overview.
3.Makingitmagazine.
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