Have you ever entered a bus, had a verbal battle with the conductor over the bus fare that had been hiked, for no intelligent reason, and then have the driver of the bus drop you a few meters away from the bus stop the bus conductor announced simply because "oga this hold up plenti. We wan turn for this place"* Only for him to tell you "Oga no vex abeg. Sorry ehn." Did I get an amen there?
Or have you been on a commercial bicycle (phylum okada) where the rider almost runs you into a car, with his reckless and witless driving, and then upon your complaining, he tells you not to be upset and that he's sorry? Or had someone park his car in the middle of the road, while someone is trying to alight from the car, causing a delay in traffic and then he sticks his head out of the car and tells you "Sorry o"? Isn't it simply ( I don't want to sound insulting) out-of-this world that when we don't do things right and we expect it would just go away because we have apologised? Or this scenario where a person comes late to work b an hour or more and then is to be given a query. He begins to plead and if his superior goes on to give him the query and even deduct from his salary, the superior is seen as a wicked man without human feelings.
Nigeria has remained under, despite the great potential it posses, because of this culture (cultivated habits) of not doing things right and expecting our apologies will cover up for our ineffectiveness. We always want to ride on the wings of human sentiment and emotion so we hardly position ourselves to do the right thing. (I must say I am guilty of this too so I'm not pointing fingers here.)
We must embrace a culture of being effecient people. We must decide to do what is right and not bend the rules for the sake of sympathy or human feeling. I'm not saying we shouldn't be full of compassion. I just think we need to be more disciplined in doing the right thing. Let the bus driver take us to the destination he announced. Let the person driving remember that there are other road users. Let the employee get to his workplace on time. Let us kill this excuse-giving mentality. Let's embrace a no-excuse-is-good-enough policy. Its time we did what is right instead of looking for ways to plead our way when we could have done the right thing. W
We must understand that our sorry will never make things right. So let's stop apologizing and start doing what wha been assigned to us. Or what do you think?
Or have you been on a commercial bicycle (phylum okada) where the rider almost runs you into a car, with his reckless and witless driving, and then upon your complaining, he tells you not to be upset and that he's sorry? Or had someone park his car in the middle of the road, while someone is trying to alight from the car, causing a delay in traffic and then he sticks his head out of the car and tells you "Sorry o"? Isn't it simply ( I don't want to sound insulting) out-of-this world that when we don't do things right and we expect it would just go away because we have apologised? Or this scenario where a person comes late to work b an hour or more and then is to be given a query. He begins to plead and if his superior goes on to give him the query and even deduct from his salary, the superior is seen as a wicked man without human feelings.
Nigeria has remained under, despite the great potential it posses, because of this culture (cultivated habits) of not doing things right and expecting our apologies will cover up for our ineffectiveness. We always want to ride on the wings of human sentiment and emotion so we hardly position ourselves to do the right thing. (I must say I am guilty of this too so I'm not pointing fingers here.)
We must embrace a culture of being effecient people. We must decide to do what is right and not bend the rules for the sake of sympathy or human feeling. I'm not saying we shouldn't be full of compassion. I just think we need to be more disciplined in doing the right thing. Let the bus driver take us to the destination he announced. Let the person driving remember that there are other road users. Let the employee get to his workplace on time. Let us kill this excuse-giving mentality. Let's embrace a no-excuse-is-good-enough policy. Its time we did what is right instead of looking for ways to plead our way when we could have done the right thing. W
We must understand that our sorry will never make things right. So let's stop apologizing and start doing what wha been assigned to us. Or what do you think?
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