My days are filled with a lot of interactions with young people. My work in the media brings me in contact with many from different background, culture and language. And I have learnt that being stuck up or cocooned in your own world is the greatest anathema that you could ever bring on yourself. With their varied range of interests, there is a lot to lose, when you choose to ignore them.
Just a few days back, the 26th of December, far away from my home base (Lagos) in Kaduna state, in Kafanchan, a Local Council Area in the state, I met a group of young people who are into dance. They had been invited to perform at the programme that I was attending. In the course of my interactions with them, one who appeared to be the leader in the group said something that I am still trying to frame my mind to digest.
He said ‘We dance because we love to dance. But dance is the last thing that we do’
That entire statement initially made little sense to me. But he went on to explain that their passion was best expressed through dancing, but before the outward expression of dance, there were a whole lot of other issues that they upheld amongst themselves before going out there to dance.
It was amazing and refreshing to hear someone young being able to put in proper perspective what a lot of our young and even older people fail to ever see throughout their life time.
He said ‘we pray together, see to the needs of each other and when all is done we dance’
It can’t get deeper than that. And it was obvious that was what they did. They looked so together. Asides the fact that they were in the same school, which obviously made it easy to rehearse, they were as different as they come.
My parting shoot as we step in to this year 2011 is to set your mind on that which brings the greater good. Not just on what benefits you alone but that which will indelibly be a bequest to generations not yet born.
Happy New Year....
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