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| Walk to Remember 2010 |
A few days ago, I asked my friends on Facebook what their dreams for Rwanda were and I got the same response that I was expecting. People have great dreams for the nation, many people said that they wanted a nation of dignified people, a nation that was free from any kind of evil, division etc.. When I asked the question however, it wasn't because of a genuine interest (though I was interested) but it was more out of a need of assurance. For the past few days, I had been dealing with mixed emotions, on one side I was excited and inspired for greatness but on the other side I was scared. I was scared of many things but most of all I was scared of uncertainty. In one moment I was pysched and working towards building a great future but also on the side something in me was telling me that I was mad, that I was playing with fire.
Complexed I felt that maybe I wasn't genuine so I talked to some friends of mine and they told they feel the same way and this opened my mind. If we are to create the future, it's okay to be scared, its ok to be uncertain it's ok to feel fear. However, what's not ok is to let fear control our lives. when we let fear control our lives, it cripples us, it paralyses our lives and makes it impossible for us to live free.
To bring change one has to comfront their own fear, the fear of failure, the fear of rejection and most of all the fear of death. Think about all the great people in history the Mandelas, the Gandhis, they all faced those fears and some of them paid the highest price and that's Death. But the common character trait that they had in common was courage, "Courage is not the absence of Fear but its the judgment that something is more important than fear."
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| Walk to Remember 2010 |
So, if you want a Rwanda that is free of division, you have to dare to question and challenge those division.
If you want a Rwanda that is dignified, you have to dare to work hard to give worth and value to people.
If you want Rwanda to be free economically, you have to dare to create businessess.
If you want a Rwanda that is reconciled, you have to dare to forgive and be moderate in a society of extremes
The world will always tell you to go for the comfortable things, get a job, just accept that that's the way things are and you cant change anything about it but then remember that nothing in this world came by accident. History has always been shaped by men and women who dared to be different.
I would like to share two quotes that usually get me back on track when fear cripples me the first one is a verse in the bible and the second one is a quote from Obama
"Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.For I am the LORD your God, who upholds your right hand, Who says to you, 'Do not fear, I will help you.' 14 "Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel ; I will help you," declares the LORD, "and your Redeemeris the Holy One of Israel" Isaiah 41:10,12,14,15
"We always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it. Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire. What led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation. What led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause. Hope is the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be." Obama 08
- Jean Michel
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