In sub-Saharan African where brooms are still part of
everyday life, it is common place to find brooms being used as cleaning
facilities. It’s such a common tool that one would hardly find its absence in
an African home. The broom though is more than a cleaning facility, it is a
life teacher.
Life is filled with challenges which come voluntarily or
involuntarily into a person’s life. The greatest joy any man would like to have
is to live a life free from challenges. Consider these challenges as dirt. Dirt
finds itself into an area unconsciously or consciously. It results from dust
that settles in an environment, compartment or room. No one loves to live in a
dirty house, so too no one likes the challenges of life. That’s why the broom
comes handy as a guide to sweeping these challenges away.
A broom consist of individual broomsticks combined together
to create a bunch. Every broom stick is important but each broomstick cannot
sweep independently. Each requires another stick and a host of other sticks to
be able to sweep off dirt. We need the help of others as much as we have
capacity within ourselves. We can pull
down big challenging situations when we work together as a team. The capacity
of a collective whole can do much more than one man will do.
Take a look at the broom. Each consisting broomstick has
deferring characteristics. Some are strong, feeble, short and others long. The
broom will however only be a broom when these all combine. Each person has
independent attributes with differing roles to play in helping you get over
challenges. You can’t afford to overlook
any person around you. They each have a role that some other person will not be
able to play however well they try.
The broom is a symbol of unity. One cannot break a bundle of
broom however hard he tries, however when each is separated into single
broomsticks, there is enormous breaking ease. Our collective effort at facing
our challenges is a great attribute. We tend to do more as a collective united
whole. The moment that unity of purpose is removed and each strives independently,
each can only do as much as his individual capacity can carry. Truth is, two
people can do more within a short time than what each independent persons will
do when added together.
Each broom stick is combined together into a bunch with the
help of a binding rope. It is this rope
that keeps the broomsticks together. This rope is unity. Without unity, we
cannot work together. We need to be united in the fuel of love and passion
towards the achievement of our set goal and objectives and then this will help
us overcome any challenge that stands our way.
The cost of a broom is negligible compared to how much dust
it can sweep. Its importance and usefulness transcends its prices. It’s one of
the cheapest yet useful instruments. It does not cost much to be united towards
a course. It just takes an agreement to work together. However its effect is in
gargantuan dimensions bringing about uncommon achievements that could never
have being possible.
All brooms do not all have equal sizes. The effectiveness of
a broom is dependent on the size of the bunch, the strength of each broomstick
and the nature of surface one intends to sweep. Not all surfaces apply the same
type of broom. Challenges are of types. Some will require the action of maybe
just one or two persons while another may require a large group of persons. One
must know the quality of human input necessary to tackle a challenge in the
shortest time or else risk spending so much money and much time.
The common nature of the broom doesn’t make it lose its
worth. It does so much however invaluable it seems. No one person or group is
common however common they may seem. Everyone has capacity and value they can
place in that project to see it come through. The most worthless person isn’t
worthless at all. He just hasn’t found his use. When his use arrives, his value
will be released.
Whatever it is that is your challenge and that seems
impossible, take the broom for inspiration. Learn the power of team work, find
some other person with the same passion as you have and push to have that
challenge overcome.
Remember, together everyone achieves more. Start sweeping
now.
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