Haruna:
I agree with your comments. Working together as a team can make a big difference. I am a new member to Gambia-L, and I hope to learn new things from all of you members. Please let us continue to brainstorm and bring the best on the table.
Love,
Mama Sisay
Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
HEAR! HEAR!
>From: Sigga jagne
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: A LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM A SAYING BY THE MASAI OF KENYA
>Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 20:27:33 -0800
>
>Fellow "L'ers", today I heard a saying from someone
>who is a Kenyan. To be exact, from someone who is a
>member of the Masai tribe in Kenya. The saying goes
>
>
>"I AM, BECAUSE YOU ARE. AND YOU ARE, BECAUSE I AM."
>
>And it was explained to me that, it means that we are
>all inter-dependant. And that our collective welfare,
>depends on the individual welfare of each one of us.
>As such, we can only fare well as a collective body if
>and only if, each unit member of that collective body
>fares well.
>
>Hence, it is in our own interest to ascertain that the
>person next to us fares well; especially when there is
>a close connection to that person such as family,
>friendship, neighborhood, community, and a shared
>origin such as that of people from the same country.
>
>Therefor, it is our duty to ascertain that others in
>our family, in our community, in our country, etc, are
>faring well. For if not for moral reasons, for the
>fact that in the full circle of things, our own
>success and welfare to a certain extent (however
>slight) depends on it.
>
>THUS, I HOPE THAT GAMBIANS WILL REMEMBER THAT, IN THE
>FULL CIRCLE OF THINGS, WHATEVER THEIR NEIGHBORS, THEIR
>FRIENDS, THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, AND THEIR FELLOW
>COUNTRYMEN BACK HOME ARE GOING THROUGH, WILL HAVE AN
>EFFECT ON THEM SOMEHOW. SUCH EFFECTS CAN BE MENTAL,
>PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, ECONOMIC, ETC, ETC. BUT IN
>WHATEVER FORM, REST ASSURED THAT IN THE FULL CIRCLE OF
>EVENTS, AS THE MASAI SAY "I AM BECAUSE YOU ARE, AND
>YOU ARE BECAUSE I AM."
>
>And this, ladies and gentlemen, I totally believe
>because how happy can be the rich man who lives
>directly across, and everyday is confronted by, the
>sight of the neighbor whose starving children are laid
>down on the courtyard dying from hunger?
>
>
>=====
>"NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU FEEL INFERIOR WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION"
>
> ALSO
>
>"NOTHING IS UNACHIEVABLE, THE ONLY QUESTION IS, WHETHER ONE IS WILLING TO
>DO WHAT IT TAKES TO ACHIEVE WHAT IS DESIRED"
>
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