Francis Bacon says that, while hope is important, relying only on hope without taking action can lead to disappointment.
Each day, South Sudanese hope for a better tomorrow. Unfortunately, tomorrow comes and nothing is better about it. Then they again hope for a better tomorrow and nothing changes at all.
South Sudanese are very good at hoping for a better tomorrow. They keep hoping consistently as if hope were created for them. While hoping for a better tomorrow, a number of people never wake up tomorrow. They have succumbed to the consequences of hope against hope. They have hoped until they hope no more. So many tomorrows have been hoped for, but nothing good has never happened.
So, why would people keep hoping for nothing? What if Bacon’s formula is used? What if an action is taken as people hope for a better day? How would it be? How would hope coupled with action be? The Bible says God helps those who help themselves. What if I alter it this way? What if I say hope comes to those who take action? No matter how people hope for a better tomorrow, a better tomorrow will not come if action is not taken. What is a better tomorrow? And which action should be taken to achieve it?
A better tomorrow is a day when living standards have improved. A day when 50 piasters could buy something in the market. A day when 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25 South Sudanese Pounds return to work. A day when renting, electricity, and drinking water becomes affordable. A day when salary is released on a monthly basis. A day when an unknown gunman becomes known. A day when schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, airstrips and railways are built.
A day when oil and nonoil revenues are collected and deposited into the Central Bank of South Sudan. A day when corrupt individuals are caught, taken to court and tried. A day when the term limit is respected. A day when services are delivered to the citizens.
When will such a great day come? Such a great day will come when South Sudanese say “Enough is enough”. We have suffered a great deal in the hands of greedy leaders and that, it is time they should step down to allow leaders with the slogan “people’s lives first”.
Such a great day will come when South Sudanese realise that the scheduled elections will never improve anything as the same faces are going to win them and that, the best decision to take is to ask the two leaders whose wrangling for power has failed South Sudan to step down. They have ruined South Sudan to the core, to the real core that reviving it will take almost 21 years; the same years as the liberation struggle. It is better to live as a lion for one day than to live as an antelope for 100 years. A man has only two days in his life; birth day and death day.
It is time to die. It is time to die for others. It is time for change-makers to die so that their fellow South Sudanese get freedom. Remember you are dying by all means. If you remain at home, hunger kills you, but if you protest, a bullet lands on your head. So, death is death, whether you die of hunger or a bullet. How long can hope be relied on? How long can people live on hope? I think it is time people should couple hope with an action. No more reliance on hope only. Hope plus action equals to change.
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