I had trusted my wits but this time round i was less sure if anything was in place. I am writing this at a time when I should be hanging out with a few friends trying to think through life and weigh on scales whether we making any contribution to this precious life but rather my restlessness, inner strength and anxiety pushed me home earlier than usual. You see, am prone to occasionally feel 'funny' feel like its just a matter of time and I will be leading people in discussions about their well being, our constitution and life in general, when such happens , usually I would be shopping and bump into someone, perhaps a janitor a cleaner or a smoker, looking a bit startled about changes in the economy but with practically no way out of the rat race and \i would give them a broad smile , one that suggests am friendly and we could talk and they would shake my hand and fee great, always leaving me feeling great too, and sure as day, such are days am so high into a rare form of restlessness, wondering how \i would organize inner city folks to believe i can fit into a political office someday.
Its now four straight weeks since I last shared with meaningful friends over a cup of tea about my ambitions to take up a political office someday. Those who have tried to do that will agree with me that it is not the easiest thing to do.It takes guts over fear to let people know that you could be a politician, especially when anything politics is attached to corruption and infringe on [privacy to peoples lives, and perhaps loss of attachment to family and loved ones as one disappears into a messy structure that hops his life from one TV show to another properly laden with the weight of feeling successful and yet unable to deliver to the satisfaction of the people they serve.At best anybody reasonable and perhaps successful at anything honorable will look at the 'politician' in question and conclude,they are only pimps who consider themselves wonderful and human but when you scratch the surface, you will see the attitudes, the evil intentions and selfish ambitions that disintegrates the true values that binds us together, in my opinion, unity, peace and our constitution.
Its from that line of thought that I would think of change.I had had an opportunity to work as a community organizer for a group of churches in low-income neighborhoods in DA, a job I enjoyed. I would think of who we call our leaders today and perceive that we had elected people who didn't see the things we see, the values we hold dear and the war we fight.I would see a group of people hungrier for power than you would think, a leadership whose limbs were giving way far quicker than they can care to notice. In those days, i thought about a new thing, I thought about a government with reasonable people, who don't judge us by our jobs, our color, our tribe, language, literacy and religion, \i thought about a government familiar with the pains that gave birth to the freedom we so much enjoy, I thought about a government that will think about the janitors \i meet in stores as well as the top medics and lawyers, a government that will give an opportunity to the street boy to take up math and computer science at a local university as well as sponsor a politicians son who is interested in jigger eradication.I thought about a government that thinks our constitution is the best place we know to equalize and be a people that are united.
In my conclusion as I put all my thoughts to paper I found out that in choosing, honoring and electing leaders who can form such a government we would have truly and blatantly honored and cherished the best in ourselves and our constitution and our values. as I continued to write i continued to hope and pray someone will write something more in support of my work and my thanks would be to wish him the best in life and urge him to live life to its crust.
