Times Of Swaziland: WORLD WOULD BE BETTER PLACE

WORLD WOULD BE BETTER PLACE
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The Editor on 15/04/2019 08:30:00


Sir,
Relationships are the glue that holds families, communities and nations
together. Without positive relationships individuals, families, communities and
even nations won’t be able to significantly progress. One of the reasons
Africa is poor is because of the failure of its countries to relate and
effectively connect with one another. Its people are disconnected from each
other through tribalism and nepotism. Greed and jealousy has caused people to be
disjointed. Lack of cooperate vision has caused us to pull and move in different
directions. United we stand and progress, divided we will always fall and remain
in poverty. When it comes to relationships, we must start at the point of
respecting and intentionally putting value on other people.
Understanding
In human relations you can’t secretly look down upon people because of the
colour of their skin, their culture, their status in life, or their religion and
still be able to make them feel valuable. Understanding people puts you in a
position of influence in every sphere of life.  Usually what most people need is
to be listened to, respected, valued and understood. We must therefore endeavor
to understand people, how they think, what and how they feel, what inspires
them, how they process information, and how they act or react in a given
circumstance.
Opinionated
We must never be opinionated against or afraid to listen to other people’s
ideas or how other people do things. In relationships, it is important to try to
see things from other people’s perspectives, and then learn to recognise and
appreciate the differences. The differences actually add beauty and strength to
human relations. Relationships with people bring forth great memories, yet also
our most difficult, painful, hurtful and tragic experiences are with people. One
of the greatest challenges of life is to keep on loving and caring for people
even when you know that they may turn against you, accuse you, betray you,
unceremoniously walk away from you, gossip about your weaknesses and forget
about all your care and love. All human beings are imperfect, flawed and have
weak points. Understanding this will help us navigate around human flaws.
Patience and perseverance are the virtues required to navigate around great
human beings with flaws. Dealing with humans is very challenging, we need to
persevere and be determined to make relationships work at different levels.
We therefore must make a choice to understand people and the dynamics that
govern relationships. Actually all of us possess the capability to understand,
motivate and positively influence others. The world would be a better place if
all of us made a choice to consistently cultivate the ability to positively work
with one another at family, community and national levels.