Makerere University concluded it's 65th graduation ceremony last week and in all spirit and joy everyone was excited to be done with school and everything that entails the academia...the first degree is ever so a delight. An estimate of 14,000 students graduated but government has potential to create jobs for only 4000 graduates..the wonder then is in the air, of how the 10,000 will survive.
In the job market today, ages from 21 to 70 plus hustle for the same jobs, old men have chosen to battle the world with the little ones and in such a setting a bitterness that sprouts from deep frustration in the way things are has left many a people determined to make sure that the grand mamas and grand papas don't find it easy to get their way out.
Ideally, society has taught us to respect the elders and give them priority treatment, an elder in the African society has always been a reflection of knowledge, wisdom and a lot of respect.The children of our society have always been reminded that it is the dirty spot in the old man's eyes that sees clearly and what an old man sees sitting the young cannot see standing.These were pointers on how great in wisdom the old folks were...until things changed!!! As a matter of fact the general outlook of the African society today has a rather different dynamic compared to the prior days, today old folks are far from peak and example of knowledge, wisdom and respect they used to be.It has come to my notice that in our time,it is very hard to attach age with maturity and wisdom. We have missed the chance for men and women to be given invaluable knowledge and wisdom that was passed on to the old folks. It is known in many developing societies, that as the young men of society lead the society, the old folks are meant to be giving advise and direction to these young ones. But what happens in a society where you sit in a interview queue with a 60 year old, or when you are competing to get promoted with a 65 year old or worse still the 50 year old is in need of a girl 25 years of age, one a man of 30 also needs? What is left is a battle field and ground for competition.Old folks today have been scrapped off the pages of people who command authority and respect and have been left with bare heads as just men, ordinary old men.
Today, a man of 60 will steal and find no excuse in reprimanding his character, a man 70 years of age will rape a child and find no cause to be remorseful and that beats all levels of needed respect. Where have the men of honor gone...men that taught children to work hard, men that devoted the last years of their lives to making young people become better people, the men that made the African society flourish with respect and praise of their abundant wisdom.We need those men, men of integrity. We pray for such men to teach our young men how to treat women and how to raise families, how to protect their children..those great men,we need in our society to breed again great old folks.
In the job market today, ages from 21 to 70 plus hustle for the same jobs, old men have chosen to battle the world with the little ones and in such a setting a bitterness that sprouts from deep frustration in the way things are has left many a people determined to make sure that the grand mamas and grand papas don't find it easy to get their way out.
Ideally, society has taught us to respect the elders and give them priority treatment, an elder in the African society has always been a reflection of knowledge, wisdom and a lot of respect.The children of our society have always been reminded that it is the dirty spot in the old man's eyes that sees clearly and what an old man sees sitting the young cannot see standing.These were pointers on how great in wisdom the old folks were...until things changed!!! As a matter of fact the general outlook of the African society today has a rather different dynamic compared to the prior days, today old folks are far from peak and example of knowledge, wisdom and respect they used to be.It has come to my notice that in our time,it is very hard to attach age with maturity and wisdom. We have missed the chance for men and women to be given invaluable knowledge and wisdom that was passed on to the old folks. It is known in many developing societies, that as the young men of society lead the society, the old folks are meant to be giving advise and direction to these young ones. But what happens in a society where you sit in a interview queue with a 60 year old, or when you are competing to get promoted with a 65 year old or worse still the 50 year old is in need of a girl 25 years of age, one a man of 30 also needs? What is left is a battle field and ground for competition.Old folks today have been scrapped off the pages of people who command authority and respect and have been left with bare heads as just men, ordinary old men.
Today, a man of 60 will steal and find no excuse in reprimanding his character, a man 70 years of age will rape a child and find no cause to be remorseful and that beats all levels of needed respect. Where have the men of honor gone...men that taught children to work hard, men that devoted the last years of their lives to making young people become better people, the men that made the African society flourish with respect and praise of their abundant wisdom.We need those men, men of integrity. We pray for such men to teach our young men how to treat women and how to raise families, how to protect their children..those great men,we need in our society to breed again great old folks.
