...OF THEIR LIVELY HEARTS!

*WORKING…A MUST* *[For those aiming at bettering the lots of humanity…]* Many a time, we find ourselves empty at maintaining moral etiquettes that may help in perfecting our interpersonal and presentational dispositions. The absence of these is not accidental. They are not a-big-bang outcomes! A link to cause and effect relationship should thus be logical in this instance. My dear! Here is an instance of a veritable bonding between bosses and their workers. The bosses are there in their confines. Yes! Far they are, away from their workers that are saddled with myriads of duties. Obligations, assignments, these roles and those deadlines are exclusively the lots of these workers. You would need to see to their workloads. These have, indeed, laden their backs so heavily that they are left with little or no creative breathing space. Making their plights known to the right quarter lags behind. What ill-effects, what challenges, what feedback, what recommendations…garnered from their routine engagements seem redundant. *Who is genuinely ready…to hear them out?* Where is that ‘mood-metre’ that could estimate for us, all that are laying fallow in the nook and crannies of their lively hearts? Yes! Focusing on swiftness as a visionary encourages unevenness but targeting the aptness of every purpose as missionary demands togetherness. Of course, team work is the watchword of every successful entity. Accordingly, he who desires finishing speedily ended up working alone. This is in contrary to the yield of consistent collaboration whose fruitions flourish in numerous grounds. The room to relate, accommodate and ameliorate the feelings of many has been on locks for long. It is being unlocked once in a while when these big bosses deem it fit. They do this, most of the time, to provide a soft-landing for *their current guidelines that are having more holes in them than Swiss cheese*. We preach against slandering; we tongue-lash gossiping; we ill-praise back-biting yet we have refused to give a listening audience to the silent cries of the ever energetic jobbers – the helpless workers! In every humane establishment, a smooth and constant operational rapport is desirable. With it, constructive criticisms flourish; by it, needed corrections materialized and from it, next level is attained just because everyone is rendered every humanly respect he or she deserves. Recent happenings around are not disconnected from the anomalies of the conundrum hinted on in this piece. *Talking alone has never been effective; unless action follows it*. Let’s leave out the messenger here, if it’s peace we so desire. But as for the message, I would say: “working by it should be a must.” AbuHaashim BOLAJI M.A. [21/10/2019]