Sacrifice!

#SilentNoises ~knm

~to give up something in order to achieve something!

Ponder. Do not wonder. At all. Just ponder.
Have you thought about it for a moment, the sacrifices made by certain people to get you to where you are today?
Some of these people have nothing to do with you whatsoever but you are benefiting from their sacrifices.

A good senior friend from The Grey Citadel of Learning once said ” Nothing good can be achieved without SACRIFICE”. So why is it so hard for you to give up something? Why can’t you give up that small soli? Why can’t you give up your time to help crunch initiatives for others to succeed? Why can’t you give up just a dollar to help out your friend or neighbor? Why can’t you just be like our fathers and their forebears and SACRIFICE for the sake of tomorrow?

I am sacrificing my sleep to write this article. It came to me in a dream. I could choose to continue sleeping and forget or wake up to write and jog your thinking into a state of rewiring. For that is what we need. A rewiring of our attitudinal thinking. A thinking process that is geared towards positive achievements, devoid of nepotism, tribalism, selfish gains, wanton greed, one highway thinking. It is sad, that we have allowed the culture of selfishness to permeate our very skin. The very fabric of which it  is woven, is glued to our skin like a plaster. Painful as it is when being removed, we must remove it.

Sacrifice. What will you sacrifice? Will you sacrifice your unlimited dancing with a sweet damsel to a long drive to meet with fraternal brother’s to discuss the future?

Would you sacrifice your friendship on the altar of naivety?

Would you sacrifice your family on the altar of jealousy? Of hatred?

Sacrifice. A sacrifice was made. A sacrifice is being made.  Will a sacrifice be made? Today you smile. A sacrifice was made. Today you are you. A sacrifice was made in the blood and sweat and toil of others. Continue the chain. Give up something for something to work. Do not destroy what took years to build.

Remember the change is YOU!!

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Kwasi (First name rhymes with Crazy but he is not) Ntem-Mensah is a father and a husband. He is a mentor, a Fatherhood Consultant and a member of the Fatherhood Roundtable. Kwasi is currently the Fatherhood Initiative Coordinator working with ECHN-Family Development Center’s Healthy Families Healthy Babies program. He is the co-chair of ECHN’s Unity Collaborative where the work is focused on Diversity and Inclusion. Kwasi is a member of the Board of Education of Manchester. He also serves as a director of The Manchester Land Conservation Trust and is the Secretary for The Council of Ghanaian Associations in Connecticut. He is also on the CFSP Advisory Council. Kwasi does collaborative work with the DOC and DCF. He is the creator of ReadToMe and Celebrating Our Fathers events. Kwasi facilitates 24/7 Dads and Circle of Security parenting. He is the author of the anthology of poems and short story “A Silent Noisy Walk in My Mind” and publisher of “SilentNoises.org”. He is also a radio presenter at CMRadio, a Ghanaian radio station based in East Hartford and a member of AABAC, an advocacy association for people of color. Lastly, Kwasi is a wonderful community advocate that is eager to work with people all races, genders and socio-economic background

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