INDISCIPLINE IN OUR SOCIETY

INDISCIPLINE IN OUR SOCIETY

Indiscipline in our society
In the year 2005, as a young boy of exuberance whose ideas and thoughts about life were still in the prime stages of being shaped, my primary 5 teacher quoted to us, her class, from a textbook that indiscipline-a lethal disease that was eating away at our country from the inside- was to be destroyed with all tenacity and no remorse.
All acts of indiscipline such as apathy towards government property, littering, disrespect and so on were to be avoided like the plague.

Later that day however, i witnessed my teacher drop, quite carelessly, huge peels from the kenkey she was ecstatically about to devour onto the floor, littering and forgetting all about the lesson she had so patriotically taught us for mother Ghana.

Today, i sat and wondered, more than once, constantly spiralling into a vortex of confusion as to why the alleviation of indiscipline has seen not the light of day. My mind was drawn to the event which occurred ten years ago, in that, eradication of indiscipline for us all, has become a thing of the textbooks; to be read and proclaimed with vehemence, but not practised. Thus it is that this deadly canker still abides comfortably with us in our homes, educational institutions, workplaces and as such our society, taking pre-eminence in our daily activities.

We have to take conscious steps however, as painstaking as they may be to remove the log in our eyes before we try to tackle the speck in another's. Eradication of indiscipline must begin first and foremost from ourselves before the desire for this glorious feat to be accomplished can shine forth onto others.
The onus lies within ourselves, lets practice that which we preach. Our little efforts collectively make for the grande finish we desire.

For indeed it still holds true, it is only in Solidarity that Progress can be achieved.