By Ustaz Mark Bang
We know very well that all countries in the global south like intimidating innocent people if they criticize their government.
Prof. John Akec Apuruot, the former renowned vice chancellor for the University of Juba, once said, “Politics without criticism is like a car in the night without a headlight.”
When you see a child of one year and three years, you find a great difference, for one knows things and the other doesn’t know anything at all. Why is it harder for a person to choose the wrong path than the right one? When we look into the situation most of countries have gone through, you would know that leaders turn to beg for leadership from the people, and the latter don’t give them fair treatment. When the civilian population complains about poor roads, health care, education, and the economy. They chase after each of them, saying,
These are rebels, but this does not work completely if people live in a country where criticism is taken as personal rather than taken as popular demand. Now, in our country,, we live a life of intimidation which does not work.
Most of our youth gave up their participation in public affairs, others deserted their country, and few have been trying to question their government, but still, this work is not done. It’s astonishing to be shown areas where you have ever gone wrong. A mirror is a mirror only when a picture comes near it for reflection to work; for hundreds or thousands of years, it may pass if and only if the mirror stays where objects never come near and near.
The same thing happens to the government, where citizens criticize it and threaten to lose their lives; it’s astonishing to deny the rights of the civil population, the right to proper health facilities set in place, transport facilities, as well as a standardized economy, for such are dividends of peace and prosperity.
We are poor people in the richest country on earth. If people who live in the USA, Europe, and other developed nations in Asia were given a chance to live in South Sudan, they would welcome the decision to live and develop it just in a month, not even a year, and I know very well that if we are even to be taken to any mentioned developed city in the world, it would just be destroyed in a day.
Former president of Sudan Omer Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir once said, “I will give you your country, but you will destroy it by yourselves.” Yes! It happened, and all of us know it well. This happened immediately after three years of its independence, and that was in 2013, on the 15th of December. As a reminder, look at what happened after 1972 in Addis Ababa: Anyanya 1 and SPLA fought themselves, leaving a great loss in 1991; especially, Junglei was destroyed, and almost the whole part of the region went to neighboring countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda.
However, the more seen truth is revealed, the worse the situation could be. We shall never stand on our feet steadfastly if indifferences are not done away with if this nation isn’t taken as a priority number one, if ethnicity is never halted, and if at all criticism is never given a chance even at the level of family.
Your wife has to criticize you on the point of misunderstanding and have to accept it; do so, and a credible decision seems best for you or me. Being a boss doesn’t mean to be everything; it doesn’t mean you don’t make mistakes, and it does not mean that there are no chances of getting corrected. In workplaces there are so many challenges one meets; if you want to have a problem with people, try to object to some of the corrections you happen to be told.
Try this, dear friend, and you will definitely face the penalties. You will never spend even a month without being kicked out of your workplace. In your house, you need to accept corrections, and failure to do so, your wife would never be called yours any longer; otherwise, she would find her way out of the house and seek where she could find solace.
Same to your man, he could easily divorce you if you don’t listen to him in any case. In life, it is all about acceptance doing some corrections and living a life that is desired by most of people, maybe here in our country or elsewhere in the world. Be optimistic in using the modality of accepting criticism if need be.
Conclusively, all humans are complex in the decision-making process; they are always good at correcting other people’s mistakes rather than others. Play a very nice game that others may not feel naïve about, a game that creates a great impression on others and a game that makes a very path that others might follow. In this present world, we live in, mistakes happen, and criticism leads to chaotic steps where one would find it harder for him/her to be told.
Conclusively, well, we are all human, hopefully, and we tend to make mistakes; it is in our nature. There’s no one single human on the planet who didn’t make any mistakes, because in life, different things happen, and you just make a wrong decision every now and then. Mistakes are meant to be accidental and unforeseen, and this is why mistakes shouldn’t be something that we should get judged on, especially if they were not on purpose.
You know what else is also in human nature? Actually learning from these mistakes, getting experience, and not repeating the same mistake twice—this is what made humans great. The same principles apply here to trading, and learning from mistakes is perhaps one of the best things a trader can do to improve.
Before we jump into the digest, I just want to make one thing clear and put it in the open so nobody has any doubts or misunderstandings. There could be some moments where a person starts making one mistake after the other, and this causes a snowball effect or a “losing streak” to the point where every new loss hits harder than the previous, and you can get so frustrated in the end that it can lead you to make even bigger mistakes, such as starting gambling, which can lead to serious damage to your equity and surely to your nervous system.
In these dire moments, one may think that the market has turned against him, and no matter what he does, the market already has an agenda, like one of those wasps that can remember the face of a human and start avenging. I read it somewhere; I hope it’s true.
Let me assure you in this regard: see the market. It doesn’t give a single damn about you or anyone else. It can never turn against anybody; it’s like a giant stream that just flows, and whether you drink from it or drown in it is your choice.
So please be assured that the market does its thing, and it makes no difference at all if you are in the market or not; the price will still move and provide opportunities EVERY SINGLE DAY. It’s you who can be caught up too deep in a thought that you can’t get profitable trades, and this may lead you to a path of trading misery.
So if you feel this way, then take a break from the work you’re doing for a week or so, and don’t think about it; restart your brain and come back fresh after some time, and make sure that what happened in the past stays there, because your losses do not determine your future in every situation.
The most profitable traders are the ones who lost the most, and remember that one had to try hundreds of times to make something work, and boy did it pay off! It did because his invention is right over my head right now and lighting. “Public Staunchest Ally”
The writer of this article is a human rights activist, writer, and professional teacher.