MAKE ESWATINI BETTER

Sir,

Life is a journey from our past into our present and then into a meaningful future. Our lives whether, past, present or future are built by relationships. The people closest to us will usually determine the outcome of our lives.

Actually, the single most significant factor that inevitably defines our future are the relationships we embrace and how we generally relate to people around us.
In life we will receive both the consequences and the rewards of those who are closest to us. Relationships will either take us up or take us down. Whether we recognise it or not, every relationship we embrace is taking us somewhere.

Relationships have a way of defining how we end up in life. Our society today has developed individualistic tendencies, many people take pride in their independence and ability to stay detached from others.

Isolate

We do not need to isolate ourselves from others because life is about relationships. To isolate yourself is to actually celebrate destructive selfishness. 
We need each other in order to achieve meaning in life. Success without relationships is fake and empty. Our highest potential is usually realized when we take the risk of believing in others, and learn to celebrate the right people God has brought into our lives. Our personal vision, community vision and national vision cannot be effectively implemented without us learning to walk in meaningful and transparent relationships.

Link

Proper relationships help advance us to a higher level of personal effectiveness. God brings certain people into our lives as a link to our future. Certain God-ordained relationships are doorways to our lives’ purpose. We must realise that certain people are positioned around our lives to assist in bringing our vision and dreams to pass, and not to compete with us.

Wisdom therefore demands that we discern which relationships we should pursue for the betterment of our future and which ones we should avoid because of the potential pain that they will create for us.

The reason why people so easily break relationships can be traced to the motive why they entered the relationship in the first place. Robb Thompson says: “The way that you treat a relationship when it no longer serves your life, pays your bills or soothes your broken heart, reveals the motive that you had for it from the beginning. It is not possible to escape your motives.” We must carefully examine our motives before entering into significant relationships.

Demands

It must not be out of selfishness. If we enter a relationship or friendship because of ‘what is in it for me’, it won’t grow. True friendship demands unselfish giving. A real friend will always stick with us in times of adversity.
We need real friends in life in order to accomplish vision. Vision can only be accomplished meaningfully in the context of relationships.

This is because genuine vision is meant to enhance the lives of others in society. If our dreams are only meant to prosper us, then we are most likely not going to be fulfilled in life.

Genuine fulfilment is found in helping others to make it in life. Society is much better when we stop competing with each other, and start complementing each other.

We must realise that each one of us is unique and adds value to society one way or the other. We all need each other, let us unite and make Eswatini a better country to live in.

C S

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