Human Performance: Do Not Forget your Family Roots

          Family upbringing is the foundation of human success and development. Spending time with family and old friends is greatly important and do not forget friends that you grew up together patronizing cheap restaurant and looking for cheap stuff to survive. Now you are living in a corporate world and your food has changed from cassava flour to cheeseburger. Now you forget how you walked miles to your destination and now you are driving a nice Bentley car to your new job.

         Old friend cannot be your standard, shame on you now that you can select who is your standard but God never select certain people as qualified to be executive friends. Life is up and down, whatever goes up must come down. More money, more friends, more problems. My favourite pastor said in his book T.D Jakes “64 Lesson for a life Without Limits” page 235 and l quote “Sometime we lose touch with our roots or become too caught up in our new life to stay connected to our old one”. In certain churches, there is a segregation and class categorization. Some church members are arrogant and selfish. It is insane to see a church member that considers a fellow member as a second class citizen and they cannot say hello to them because they are making little cheque from their job. It is time we show love to one another.

       Nobody is born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth, life is about choice and you have to work hard to achieve your dream wealth. It is greatly important for us not to forget our root. Japanese and Yoruba people have excellent culture and some of them living in western world still teach their children their culture and language. Japanese and Korean people living in California and Toronto still teach their children culture and language.

        I do respect their culture and language. I do go to Sushi restaurant twice a month to eat Salmon Sushi or California rolls. Once in this restaurant, the staff in Japanese restaurant are very polite and respectful. Japanese never forget their root and I am greatly surprised to see a mother from one of the African country getting angry with a fellow country man for speaking local dialect to her 10 years old son. I think we need to understand the richness in African culture.

     As an African man, I still love to eat pounded yam and egusi soup. I will prefer my pounded yam to cheeseburger. Culture in African embraces respect, love and dignity. The current minister of agriculture in Rwanda Agnes Matilda Kaliba studied entomology and graduated with doctorate degree from University of Massachusetts United States and she has transformed the agricultural industry in Rwanda and that has increased food output and also helped local farmers to specialize on one crop at a time and they practice rotational cropping. It is high time African Diaspora to think how to contribute positively to the continent.

 

 

        I remember one time living with Indian family in Iselin, New Jersey and they are very loving and accommodating. They understand the essence of living in western world as an immigrant. They share food and some member of the family sleep on mattress in the living room.