Cast your lot
I always try to figure out why things happen. I could remember once when my senior brother did something and my Dad informed me that his actions did hurt him. When my Dad was explaining the entire scenario to me I was quietly digesting his words with a central question within me, 'why would he do this?'. Do well not to always conclude a situation until you find out 'the why'. I had to hear from the other party even as his junior and he did well to also present his grievances. There was a later dialogue that balanced the situation and peace and love was restored. That action that earlier looked hurting brought progress and even my Dad had to testify about it. What would have happened if I decided to side with my Dad to kick against it.
He was in need of something that he felt he was deprived of and he had to cast his lot. His fate produced the needed positive results. Casting of lots can be backdated to the Biblical days especially for the children of Israel to mostly determine God's will. It led to peaceful allocation of lands, leadership selection, task assignment and dispute settling. It has been a little different in the modern era as fate is allowed to judge such situations when a lot is being cast. Nevertheless, parties always go home satisfied at least to some high extent. Lots were always casted by a group of people to resolve an issue. I will be drawing my attention to a more isolated pattern here? Can one actually cast his personal lot? Let's say a move of fate for freedom or whatever?
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I will be centering this article on the current challenges faced by African youths when it comes to limitations in rights and privileges. How we are brought up matters a lot, in short, I wrote an article yesterday that centered on this; find out more on 'who taught you'. Africa seems to be the most disciplined set of people when it comes to culture, belief systems and norms. This has also come with many disadvantages and when one tries to kick against, he is mostly attributed a rebel. One of those areas has been in handing over possessions or opportunities to youths, it is mostly believed they do not have any capacity.
This to me has been a wrong impression that should at least come to an end by now when adding to exposure brought in by civilization. Most youths are given one direction; head the school road and when you are assumed matured you go get a wife and continue the circle. This was easier at our predecessor's era; what I mean here was that there was abundance for family to stay extended and whenever a man gets married there was much to go home with in terms of possession to feed his family. The world has changed, very little have enough properties to sustain their children. Why are parents still clinging to the waiting mentality? One of the ways to eradicate poverty is early action.
Youths must wake up
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Let's say for instance, opening a child up for opportunities at early stage against just letting him grow up to possess your wealth, which is very encouraging? Without doubt, the latter. When parents doubt their children to convert resources to inflows and revenue there is an error already. Youths are suffering this syndrome big time down here. My Dad never taught me business, all he wanted was for me to go to school as every other youth around me. I am privileged I must say, to spot what was most important for me at an early stage. I had to pause school at some stage and find ways to create wealth just to avoid late riches. I am still working on it and will resume school when I have laid the needed foundations. You can get papers anytime but opportunities come and go.
I am not saying there should be a fight between children and parents, no. The idea is a need to call for dialogue and amend old family patterns that are no longer working. I keep saying poverty is likely to increase until we amend most of our African mentality. When people cite the story of the prodigal son I always like to emphasize on a centext that is mostly missed. The prodigal son was not prodigal because he asked his father for his portion of wealth but rather because he lavished it. Think of what would have happened if he properly managed those resources, even his father would have praised him. This is something that slightly played out between my Dad and brother in the first paragraph. I learned something too in the process and I feel a need to keep looking for solutions to problems.
To conclude, let me add, the issue of high poverty level stems from this sector of youth underestimation that has always been overlooked. Youths must rise to cast their lots as their future is dependent on early exposure to what creates wealth. Parent-child relationship in Africa must reach a new dimension which will improve our standard of living. What does wealth creation really mean for a man at his fifties? Little to nothing, he has a family to feed. How about a youth in his early twenties? The story is very different here. The latter story is about the fate that African youth need.
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