are we truly independent or in-eternal-dependence?
It’s
been 74 years, we broke free from colonial rule. The time frame could be considered as as the average lifespan of an adult in this country.
But for
74 years, we have survived by depending on others, expecting our basic needs to
be free and fall on our lap. Because free is easy and requires no sweat or energy. All we need to do is to whine, groan and moan, things will somehow come our way in the name of downtrodden, helpless, low income, marginalized. Countless words that glorify poverty but not one showcasing the hidden laziness, not wanting to try. In reality all these words label us as dependents .
this is why we are easily deceived by wide grinning politicians offering us free lunch packs, bottles of arrack, assurance of jobs, allowances and business deals that trap us to false ideologies.
we tend to love anything free, it could be a tee shirt, cap, free ride to the city, a bottle of old arrack and the thought of an allowance coming our way without having to shed sweat, energy and earn it. We have never really learnt to experience the joy of receiving something through our own efforts, energy and sweat. We have always tilted towards free.
We do not mind giving a resounding applause to these nit wits who promise us just about everything under the sun. We love to cheer, whistle, sing and dance in support of all those promised freebies. There is no harm as we are going to be blessed with so many freebies. When we wake up from this illusion, our butts hurt from the thunderous thud after it hits the ground.
But do we, for a moment think, as to how this freebie system could run without sweating to generate an income to keep the free wells flowing ?
What is Plan B if the well runs dry ?
We only know to how to live by borrowing, if we run short of money, we borrow more to settle the earlier debt and continue surviving with more debt. We know the money lender, the banks, the leasing companies, pawn broker better than what we really need, We are so versed with pawning, leasing, loan schemes that we do not bother to understand nor figure out how thrifty, saving and investing works.
The banks along with finance, leasing companies capitalize on our stupidity and promote debt and more schemes to trap us into becoming eternal debtors. With each new scheme that comes out, we evolve into slaves hungry to put our fingers into these schemes and keep up with the rest. We host extravagant weddings, buy the most fancy cars (should be better looking than our colleague or neighbour) and shop with credit - money that we really do not have. We work endlessly spitting out a part of our pay-cheque as instalments to keep up with the competition and make all these schemes look workable and become successful voices for all the commercials, while becoming more dependent and poorer.
So what lies for us ? how do we step out of this meaningless cycle ?
We need to stop being stupid and ask for schemes that work in our favour.
how about sweating, doing decent work for a living and learning to live within our means? how about cutting off ties with free this and that which fall on our lap? Most importantly break away from being strangled unmercifully by money lenders, leasing companies and pawn brokers.
Why should we be, eternally in debt ?
Why do we always have to be desperate ?
Why are we dependent on schemes that only drag us to utter misery?
