REAL CHANGE: LET US CHANGE THE STATUS QUO.

‘You live in your own world, come back to reality’ my friend Ernest often tells me that during our regular conversations.

Yes, “My World”. It is defined by peace, economic growth, good leadership and National security. Not a society distinct by corruption, negative ethnicity/tribalism, racism, religion rivalry… name them. People are selfless and not selfish.

Can that society exist?

I refuse to join the “status quo”. Borrowing from my religious doctrine (all religion teachings), it promises us of the world. It prepares us and teaches us on how to make that society a reality. The Ten Commandments in the Bible, Uislamu in the Quran… Hinduism, Buddhism… etc

The famous Greek Mathematician Archimedes once said “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”. The basic principle of a lever is that as the length of a lever increases, the effort needed to be exerted to accomplish a task decreases. This fundamental law can also apply to life. World levers are experiences and opportunities that motivates me to succeed “my creation world”. Fulfilling myself with passion and values is to build and place a strong stable fulcrum. This is the same vision with which I view my world. With passion for my community and values, it will be a reality.

It is my and your responsibility to demands results from our elected leaders, and also to elect the right leaders. All elected officials to be accountable to ‘we the people’ who elect them. We should demand from our government the high level of performance that the private sector entrepreneurs and workers achieve every day. We can no longer afford failure.

In the society that works, 70%-90% percent of customer want something, they get it. In the world that fails, if the same percentage wants something, the bureaucracy continues to do what’s best for itself, not the majority of their people. And yet the same government is entrusted with awesome responsibilities of defending our country, preventing terrorism, winning in the global economy, responding to natural disasters, ensuring social security benefits, educating our children and protecting our Environment.

Our current system of government is on a course of decay, decline and disaster. The system that has refuse to deliver the change we need. But we the people can force real change, and our grandchildren deserve. Our very own survival depends on that change.

It is actually the right time to become leaders in our neighborhoods, our civic groups, in every aspects of our lives, where can help drive the demand for change.

Author: Beline Nyangi

Beline is an International Relations Professional. She holds an MSc. degree in Conflict and Governance from University of Amsterdam. She has competence and interest in social policy research advisory and implementation in the areas of peace and security, transitional justice, human rights, refugee rights, immigration and social justice. She enjoys traveling, drinking "dawa", good books and rich and thoughtful conversation. View all posts by Beline Nyangi