By Dr Charles Leyman Kachitsa
Hunting practice has always been with humanity ever since creation. In fact as soon as man fell from grace and that’s how the story goes, he started the game of hunting, hunting what ever has movement. It is in hunting that survival of races attained reassurance of existence.
The game of hunting is ironic in that in some cases the roles are reversed as the hunter becomes the hunted. It therefore requires skills and use of all major five senses. One has to be very observant when hunting and make sure that he has some invisible sight behind them to see the beasts coming, those which are brave enough to hunt the hunter.
Hunting requires speed and precision if one has to be able to bring trophies home constantly. Most often when in the act of hunting, one has to look straight forward with sharp eyes to not only identify games lingering in open spaces, but also to be able to detect leaf movements where some edible animals may be concealed behind thick bushes.
In some cultures for one to get accepted by a bride, they have to first prove they are skillful hunters who are able to bring smaller delicacies of meat animals such as rabbits as well as occasionally bring in the bigger ones such as buffaloes. The question is with the way the world is today, how does one hunt efficiently and where does one find such big game?
The quotes this week after a break of two weeks are a continuation extraction from the book that advocates a fresh look at the way humanity think of itself. I am sure the selected few quotations below from the book will enlighten you to one or two life lessons. read and enjoy:
TOWARDS A NEW WORLD VIEW by Various Authors Edited by Russell E DiCarlo
“The second thing is that even when things are extremely chaotic, there are people who do well. They feel in control, because they are – their locus of control is within themselves. So they feel empowered, committed, centred – even when they hear they could lose their job due to corporate downsizing. Kobasa’s study found that managers who seemed to do best during rapid change were the heartiest. They didn’t get ill. They functioned effectively. They possessed the three ‘C’s’: they felt in ‘control,’ they felt ‘committed,’ and they felt ‘challenged’ by the job that they were to do even though some of them lost their jobs.”
“Education in Western society plays a vital development role in the lives of children. —– What children should or should not be taught has been the subject of considerable debate and heated arguments. Traditionally, the focus has been on the content. In the old world view, the purpose of education was fairly straightforward: to prepare girls and boys to be good parents as well as productive, contributing members of society by teaching them the fundamental skills they needed for success.”
“If we go back thousands of years, it began when human beings first started to take ownership of things. Possessions became the measure of people, and now we have a society that prizes the accumulation of things. After all, society tells us, ‘whoever has the most toys wins.’ In that scenario you depersonalize education and make it into an objective game instead of a subjective game. It’s not about drawing forth the individual’s potential, it’s about having the individual fit into an economic system that will create wealth for some people and poverty for others.”
“…. What we have to do is find out the gift that each child has, the gift that they come into this world with and allow them to pursue that. Education should be the drawing forth of the innate spirit of each human being – not a set of imposed restrictions that squelch the spirit.”
