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CommunityISSUE 36 APRIL 2025 23wrong choices and bad decisions, what%u2019s wrong with owning our reality and then making adjustments where needed, especially if we think our outer reality doesn%u2019t match the truth of our inner reality. It%u2019s a fool who does not change his mind when there is need and proof to do so. My second thought was, does refusing to take responsibility for our behaviors or choices make the consequences of those behaviors and choices go away? It doesn%u2019t. I believe the opposite is true. But this is how many Africans think.Now, these are just my thoughts, so I am not seeking answers as it were. But, I do think there is a whole lot that we have lost in Africa and are still losing because not many Africans are taking responsibility for the growth and goodness of Africa. I just think we have left too many things to chance, unattended, using excuses of being victims of some systemic agendas (which by the way are real) instead of coming together to find a workable way around the limitations. I think one of the many ways of raising the human mind from a low consciousness to a higher one is to teach people how to master the art of taking responsibility and being disciplined enough to walk the path that takes them towards a new direction of higher consciousness. What now?So, the Grinch believes he is a victim of the beer%u2019s addiction to him, and not that he is an addict because he loves to drink beer. It%u2019s clear that the mug of beer is not the one holding his fingers but the other way round. But this is how many Africans view themselves in relation to their circumstances. They are never the reason for their misfortune, especially the religious ones who love to blame the devil and the witches in their village. But we really need to wake up and raise our conscience and consciousness. We need to elevate our minds from being involved in stupid and corrupt practices that undermine our growth. We need to wake up to raising godly children who will hold dear the true values of Africa without compromise. We cannot be calling the government corrupt when we feed fat from the allocations meant for our community projects. We must look in the mirror of our conscience and tell ourselves the truth of where we have been getting things wrong, and then go ahead and correct them.Let%u2019s stop relating to life like the Grinch and his addiction to a mug of beer.WhenVictimismFails...what next?