Altruism- the life jacket of life
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 | 0 Views |
No harmony, hope and the desire to explore it more. There is an English saying; “No man is an island.” Therefore, I need you as much as you need me and it is a fact we cannot abscond from. My success entirely depends on our interaction, so without you stretching your hand towards me, there is no way I could escape the dark and lonely pit of misery. It all takes altruism for us to catapult each other’s life to another unknown but wonderful levels. Altruism enables us to identify our commissions under the sun and make it easy for us to exercise them. Altruism is the quality of being unselfish and be concerned about other people’s welfare.
Yes, Henry Ford once said; “If you take care of your customers, the business will take care of itself.” This is a great emphasis and definition of possessing the quality of altruism. What he meant was that, one must forgo placing him/ herself before others but rather make it the other way round.
Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...