Tonny Rutakirwa
Everyone always has a reason to rejoice unless you are gone. There will still be reasons to rejoice regardless of what’s on Wall Street or on the local stock exchange. Some people rejoice because it is a chance once in a lifetime to get a slice of Citicorp or Merrill Lynch and others to be alive! You will see good days come back if you are alive. The Americans saw the Great Depression in the 1930s and look at the prosperity of the Americans long after that. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese people died during the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, and Tangshan today is full of life and events. Many years ago, when Singapore constructed its first flyover, and it collapsed, it was told that the contractor arranged a big dinner to persuade everyone involved in the project to pick up and move on. We need such a mindset, mental capacity and strength to solve problems and difficulties. Only if we assume it’s the end, is it really the end. On the contrary, if we can gather the power to govern one’s life, negate the deadly effects of pessimism, the decision we take at the time, will forever live with us and will grow into a giant tree of great strength like a small mustard seed. Returns are not mistaking but difficulties and experiences. Closed doors are not sackcloth’s but road signs that point somewhere else to an open door. At the rainbow end, there will always be a pot of gold and a silver match for any dark cloud.
