Can We Change Our Life?
Written By Futurist
Status Quo
The rich populations of Sarawak have a strong interest in maintaining the status quo because it protects their privileged lifestyle. Many of them made their wealth through nepotism, corruption and ‘deals’ with officials who award their ‘partners’ lucrative contracts especially within the circle of people in power.
The vast majority of the population (especially rural folks) would consider themselves fortunate if they earn RM100 per week (many earning lesser than that). In this state of about 2.5 million people, some still yet to enjoy the fruits of development (basic development - purified water, electricity supply, basic access road) despites more that 45 years of independence.
State Government Help?
Cannot the State help them? As in many societies, hypocrisy is alive and well in Sarawak. At nearly all levels of public and business life, corruption is endemic. Officials fleece the population by skimming much of the net wealth from each transaction for themselves (including for their immediate family members) through rent seeking, rather than risk letting it find its way to really benefit those tragically poverty stricken people.
How easy would it be for the rural folks of Sarawak to change their life forever? For those poverty stricken people, it would almost be impossible without systematic and organized help. For the majority of the people, it would be difficult unless the state’s political system, people’s work attitudes and general passivity changed! Again with vote buying will make it worst - because the people in power fully taking advantage of the weaknesses of rural folks (majority of them are still struggling to meet basic physiological needs - food, cloth, and shelther).
Is It Possible To Change Our Life?
We can change our life. It is possible provided we have to change our belief - change Impossible to I’m possible! It is as simple as that - by separating syllable ‘im’ from ‘impossible’, then put an apostrophe ( ’ or ’ ) in between alphabet ‘i’ and ‘m.’ However, on paper (theoretically) or psychologically, the process of extracting and arranging this syllabes looks rather very easy, but in reality is very tough and daunting to those who being opressed and marginalized.
For many individuals, changing their life forever is possible provided they are willing to educate themselves on success knowledge and skills, practice self-leadership and make the effort required. However, they would still have to struggle against a ’system’ that works to hinder progress.
Opportunities Are All Around
In developed countries, changing people life forever and achieving personal success in all major spheres of life is a much easier undertaking because of their systems are conducive and supportive (less or minimal corruption). Despite our ’system’ not the best right now, comparatively speaking, oppotunities are all around us if we know how to grasp them (ngerebut peluang).
Compared with people in poor countries in Africa, do you think we have more opportunity to achieve and maintain the level of personal success we want within our own community? If so, what are the real acute obstacles preventing us from achieving our personal success goals? It it possible that most of those are self-made success? Do we have ‘Special Branch’ keeping people from success and happiness? Actually, we do not have a ‘Failure Enforcement Team’ to prevent population from achieving their personal share of wealth. What we have is a stream of opportunities and a river of money flowing all around us. Seize them!
We Cannot Afford To Wait For Perfect ‘System’
We cannot wait for the ’system’ to be perfect (corruptions free) because it always there - although we are considered developing country, but with third world mentality (corruptions are perceived as norm). By looking into massive wealth of some political leaders, this phenomenon would not going down so soon!
Are We Just Acquiesce?
Were the rural folks conditioned into accepting this relative poverty? Were they given storylines on how to live their life - storylines written by others? In Sarawak ‘the system’ conditions people into poverty. But there are many other ways of conditioning. Nearly everywhere verbal conditioners such as ‘Wealth is not for us,’ ‘We cannot make it,’ and ‘We have tried that before, but failed.’ These thoughts condition people to the core. Negative conditioning, because of its life-long drag (sometimes it can be acute for generations), can kill many splendid plans and stifle the quest for personal success.
Were Rural Folks Unique? Le’t See
Actually in Sarawak, the majority of people have few choices. But, from the time they saw life as something that ‘happened to them’, or not as life menu of things they could achieve? Were they very unique? Let’s see. Only some small percentage of people manage to escape from stricken poverty. The others powered through obstacles and created their own wealth. What made the difference?
Isn’t There Any Other Choices?
Yes. Given the choice, most people would choose wealth over poverty. However, many people do not realize wealth is a matter of choice. For those who are wealthy, it isn’t society, God, the government, the ’system’, the weather, anyone or anything that prevents people from living a successful life. What shapes people’s destiny are the choices and decisions they make each day.
For wealthy people, they saw their opportunities and grabbed them with both hands. They knew how lucky they were materially and never stopped to whine that life did not give them any breaks. They saw, planned, applied themselves and achieved the success they wanted.
Have We Taken A Different Course/Route?
We live in a number of spheres, and by judging anyone by taking into account only one part of their life simply doesn’t provide a complete answer to what happened. Also, by looking at the way others live and what they achieve only reflect one part of the problem of stricken poverty because our own definition of success depends on what we value individually and on what we want to achieve.
However, there comes a moment when we are given or we create the opportunity to change our life forever - for the better than what we are having now. Let’s reflect on our life, and we will probably recall some opportunity or moment in the past that, have we taken a different course or route of life, our life could be quite different. For example, crucial moment could be through our right to vote in democracy to change the corrupted ’system’, but do we dare to make that much needed change?
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