THE VOICES IN THE WIND

We live in a society where people are too busy to listen to or observe the impressions they make on the lives of others; people do not actually have time to access their lives and as well receive feed back from people about their conduct. It was in line with this, that The Johari’s window, a cognitive psychological tool was created by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham in 1955 in United States is used to help people better their interpersonal communication and relationships. The first window of this analogy is about the things concerning your personality known to you and others, the second consist of what people know or observe about you but hidden from you, the third which is the most mysterious in which the unconscious or subconscious bit of us is seen neither by ourselves nor others and the last which is basically what we know about ourselves but concealed from others. The focus in this write concerns the second face, which is the voices in the wind, the negative views people have about you and how you respond to them.

There are so many voices in the world today disparaging the vices or immorality initiated by technological advancement, the voices of the people decry the government’s inadequacies seen in the prevailing poverty and underdevelopment in our immediate society yet nothing seems to be done to ameliorate these situations. A leader who does not hearken to the woes of his subjects is not worth being a leader because he is in enmity with both man and God; just as we know and often hear the expression that the voice of the people is that of the Divine.

In this small community of ours, what are the voices in the wind saying about you? You are a prefect, what are the students saying about you? Are you an autocrat or a dictator? In the class, what are your classmates saying about you? At the field of play what impression do you register on people’s mind and what are they saying about you? Jesus Christ was very sensitive to the society and their reactions about him when in the gospel of St. Matthew, when he asked the apostles the thought provoking question: “who do people say I am” it was indeed another way of asking the apostles: “what are people saying about me?” ( mattew 16:1-4 ). Like the music icon MICHAEL JACKSON, Let us rise and make this community and the world at large a better place for all of us; by living with the feelings of others and being conscious of their rights to ours.