Elderly people have an ability to see tomorrow and foretell its beingness, but the unclearness of today blurs their eyes to see and say anything about tomorrow. Even prophets who are known to make prophecies are overwhelmed by such a huge task.
Youth themselves are moving like sheep, with their faces down, without stretching their necks just once or twice to witness why many far-seers fail to herald. It is not hard for predictors to say what tomorrow holds exactly for today’s youth. I hold no wisdom or divine power, but I can utter, from the behavioral patterns of today’s youth, that they have no future. If, indeed, future is there, then it is a doom future.
The status quo of youth in their affairs currently predisposes tomorrow to a lot of reparations and uncertainties, including who should lead now and who should reserve for later. This particular hallmark of leadership struggle is evidenced by the fact that when an opportunity knocks on the youth’s door, it is as if it has knocked on animals’ door. Even animals are more organized because there are many, but one usually leads.
Every youth devises an “elbowing-aside modality” to make sure he/she swallows it alone while others see it and do not hint themselves to wait for subsequent opportunities but also pinch their noses in competing for the opportunity too.
Where, on this filthy earth, does one opportunity accommodate hundreds of thousands? Again, where, on earth, are qualifications, experiences, seniority and diversity not taken into account by both the competitors and selectors? Competitors may happen to share the same qualifying competencies, but the selection still happens based on the past histories of the competitors. So, it is difficult to anticipate the future, very difficult, I tell you.
If you leave your tomorrow to be prepared by people who are 20 years or so far above the life expectancy age, what comes into a quick-understander’s mind is nothing but the worry of jeopardy awaiting the innocent generations.
But the truth remains that it goes badly prepared at the watch of youth representatives who are once, twice or thrice called to mend the wrongly designed areas of tomorrow. But because these youth representatives are sure that no another new dawn of the same nature ahead for South Sudanese, they work as if they have once aged, but had their ages reduced to favour them represent youth. This is sad.
What tomorrow holds for today’s youth is “failure”, not originating from them but originating from the people they have an undeniable right to share a table of preparations with and comment when the designers of tomorrow are going astray.
What is/are the solution(s) then? Revealing the truth such as this and failing to provide a solution to it automatically takes me to the category of bad designers. In the derivation of the solution, the unity of youth is weaker, weaker and weaker still. If their unity were stronger, they would prepare to welcome the creeping change.
Not only that, they should redefine why they are called the backbone of the country and work for it so hard to renovate their invaginating and falling foundation. I know it takes time, but the time taken to start doing that is longer and abnormal.
Succeeding in renovation of our future begins with unanimity and evacuation of Juba city to go and weld our separated communities which are the only ones holding the key to the restoration room. Youth are the country’s muscles of movement. If failure is what awaits them tomorrow, how would the country move forward?
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