Change starts with us

NOTHING changes overnight!
No money or wealth or even the government can change the way we live or the struggles we encounter.
Change starts with us.
Next year our country will be celebrating its 45th anniversary, yet development is crawling at a snail’s pace and is quiet stagnant.
Our hospitals are running out of medicines, people dying from curable diseases, road infrastructures deteriorate at an alarming rate, there is no respect for law and order, the education system is never like before!
By looking at the way things are going, someone can easily predict that we are heading nowhere but towards disaster and surely a crisis or civil unrest is looming.
Something is really not right!
If we want change, I believe it all starts with us!
We as individuals are leaders in our own rights; we should start to educate our children, family, clansmen and those whom we have influence over about the rights from the wrongs, the do’s and the don’ts, the bad and good, the moral and immoral etc!
At times, we turn to blame the churches, NGOs, Sangumas, our politicians and the government when things are not on our side.
We don’t even bother to realise that we the ones at fault.
It’s never too late to change the way we think and see things differently!
It’s about time we manage our time and the scarce resources wisely.
I’ve travelled abroad many times and notice that we (PNG) are truly and abundantly blessed but it’s only our attitude that is dragging us behind.
Only if we can get the small things right, we will see and experience the most talked about change or otherwise it’ll take a while.
PM James Marape’s ‘Taking back PNG and making PNG the richest black nation’ starts with us!

Mel Akore,
Wara Simbu
DPI