We are what we think about. Thoughts are deliberate and although there maybe external influence on our thoughts, what we decide to nest in our minds depends on us. Who we become maybe inspired by our environment we mostly mingle with: the neighbors we grow with and around, the schools we go to, the experiences we go through and maybe more but potentially it is who we choose to be. There are many things in life and the world that we can not control but there is one thing which we have absolute control over. Our will, a weapon, an instrument, a vessel and much more at our disposal. It is our will that decides on the choices to take and decisions to make.
Our environment is changing fast. Greed has taken over and the other one is never in mind. Its a self centered, everybody for himself and God for us all pace. Gain is everyone's goal and the consequences are a bridge we choose to cross when we get there. With this in mind, what sells fast is what is put out in the market. Take the media for instance. There is a variety of radio and T.V stations available. They all have a wide variety of products. The recent soap opera seems to be doing very well in the market. A fairy tale display of love. Perfect sacrificial love, offered by a perfect handsome gentleman to a woman well endowed by nature. This is only a fairy tale would only happen in an ideal world but ours world is not an ideal one.
Then there are the topics, very interesting to the ears, that are aired. They truly do achieve their goal because a number of people do listen and laugh their way to work. After all it is just entertainment so why not. Unfortunately, this is a plate of food which we constantly feed to our minds therefore inspiring thoughts. These slowly effect change in us even without us being aware of it.We start perceiving things differently. We build different attitudes around the things and situations.
Today the victims to this among others are love and relationships, and marriages.The sad fact still is that these same discussions are heard by the young minds, still trying to define the world and life. Unfortunately they are not given the chance to decide what is real and what is not because the very persuasive "facts" served to the audience drop into their ears with too big a bang for them to review the truth in them.I have heard several young people talk negatively about marriage drawing examples from the situations described during the discussions they have listened to.There fears cemented by the "confessions or experiences" that people voice out.
My concern is, if all these have such a huge impact on the 20+yrs, how much more will it affect the young adults' life's perspective, whose parents unfortunately are too busy making money to fuel their academic trains to success, to afford a little time to sit and just talk to them.(Topic for another day). We maybe be civilized now and the old moral register too old fashioned to check, but the new is not only rotting away our morals but also our identity. The safe shelter, the family, where we all knew we could nest and rest confidently in is slowly getting drowned.
We have become a dust bin, welcoming all and any. In the rush to equal with the west, a culture we only woke up to a few decades ago while they have been living it for centuries.And yet we sing the freedom song flying on our fantasy liberated perception.Fear arrests me when i think of the growing generations into the future and am tempted to utter a wish that my eyes may not open up to that futures' morning.But then, this would be taking a coward's bus.
We need to wake up and deal with this now because the all familiar "i wish i knew" melody is not one we will want to sing along to in national unity. Good news the solutions are within us if only we halt the haste, think then act.
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