CHANGE

"Change". the one major word that has been on the lips of Nigerians since the last election. Funny enough, the election before that had carried the 'Transformation' Logo, then I sit back and ask myself  'Change and Transformation', what's the difference? We claim we are nationals of Nigeria and then want one man to transform or rather, "change" the whole country, I mean a country of about 170 million people. How possible is that?

Barack Obama made this profound statement, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

Or country is rapidly entering a state of moral and economic decay, corruption has become a norm while we sit back and wait for 'somebody' who will arise and do something about the undesirable situation. The truth is that while you're hoping for somebody that will catch a vision and summon the courage to do something that will bring change, others are hoping that you will catch the vision and rise up and do something.

Steve Jobs observed, "The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do"

Its time to stop complaining and lamenting over situation of the country. We need people crazy enough to start up the change this country needs. Its quite unfortunate that we have youths of Nigeria have a mentality of deferred responsibility always living in a future that does exist. But we need youths who have a mentality of assumed responsibility. "If not I, then who; If not now, when; if not here, then where?"

We have great commentators, little contributors, great agonisers, less organisers. Stop waiting for somebody to clean up your community when you also contribute to heaping up the dirt; stop waiting for somebody to eradicate coruption when you'd still pay your child's way into the university, or refuse to stay on a queue. Stop waiting for somebody to arise and arrange that your scattered office, stop waitin for somebody to send food to the starving children at the orphanage.

Don't be part of the probem, instead be a part of the solution. Note today that you are the 'somebody' that everybody, including you, has been expecting to arise. You are the expectation. YOU are the change.