To those who have given up...
Monday, October 17, 2005
Today I was supposed to convene some investigation for some case (classified so cannot state the details here, sorry). Then this weird 52 year old from a certain dept in my organisation that deals in security issues popped into my office looking for the chairman of the case I was investigating. Since Me Chairman was not around, I decided it was in diplomacy's best interest that I entertain our uninvited guest.
After giving him some crucial details to the case, the Chairman guy was still not here, I perhaps I felt bad to leave an old man loitering the camp compounds without a guide, so I took him to my office where we sat down for a little chat (since my boss wasn't around I made full use of the otherwise totally under-utilised sofas in his office room.
He started the conversation with the usual old-man-talk-to-young-punk attitude, "Which JC did you study in? SAJC? Oh, then which Uni will you be going to?"
"I quit Uni"
"Quit? WHY????"
And I go on to give a brief explanation of my circumstances and resultant considerations, which he didn't really seem to get.
He then went on, like all typical failures in life, about how he used to have dreams and even tried A FEW ways to get it done, but since it never worked out it is best and most logical to GIVE UP (those were the two words upon which he placed a large amount of emphasis).
That is perhaps the one underlying problem hindering the growth of entrepreneurship in the country. If you have parents preaching to the next generation about how they should GIVE UP after a few failed attempts, I think we are pretty much DOOMED to fail in whatever else we attempt, simply because the HOLY WORD - GIVE UP will come to mind as the divine guiding light to end all problems.
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