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The Human Connection


Sitting here looking at a doctor friend's resume.
A very impressive resume (CV) I can see here,   but his job description lacks something very important, something that can connect him to understand whatever his patient is feeling as a doctor.  A feeling that is humane and a genuine concern for a sick patient who comes to sit before him  at the hospital.

That genuine feeling and concern is what I like to call "The Human Connection".  Let me help you understand this better;

I'm very sure you will be very angry if you have a  serious headache, you go to the hospital to see a doctor, he asks you what is wrong with you, you tell him you have a serious headache. And without asking you some more questions to understand you, he goes ahead and prescribes paracetamol tablets for you to take every morning and evening after meals.

Tell me honestly, how will you feel?? I believe you will feel more angrier than before right?
That is exactly what I mean by having a human connection here.
Yes, you are sick and in great pain, but you also wish for the doctor or nurse to be a little caring and show a little concern as he or she gets himself or herself ready to treat you.

Sometimes the way most doctors and nurses even attend to you before they finally treat you can either make you feel better or much worse even before they go ahead to give you medicine.

This same human connection was what our grandparents and old folks uses to call VIRTUE.

  I believe we still call it by the same name today.
Treating your fellow human being with respect and dignity even though you may not know him or her.
A moral character our society needs today but I guess you can't find it anywhere today. It's not in our workplaces, not in our schools and not even in our churches.

This connection is made up of love, care, respect, dignity, honour and the most important of all having a matured mind.

Without these character sets,  we can not grow fully as humans that can help our society and its people grow.

Hopefully, this COVID-19 pandemic across the world,  is teaching the entire human race these character qualities which was once missing.

But the question to you and me is.... Can we sustain it?    If we are serious about taking care of nature and humanity, how long are we going to continue to do this?

I hope it doesn't disappear on us as soon as we find a cure for this dreadful Corona virus.

To help you adopt and continue to practice them in your personal life...let me ask you these questions....

You are an employer... But how do you treat your employees. Do you disrespect and treat them anyhow because they work for you?
Where is the human connection?

Employee, do you take your work at the company for granted. You don't like to  follow instructions.   You always come to work late and reply rudely to the people you work with.
How do you expect the company to grow and for you to develop.
Where is the human connection?

Wife..... Your husband is acting tense, sad and moody these days. Don't draw conclusions  quickly and say he is cheating on you.. Perhaps your husband may be at the point of losing his job. Understand how to treat him and comfort him in his difficult time and stop yelling like crazy anytime you see him.

Again I ask, where is your human connection??

Husband..... who doesn't understand that it's unclean to have sex with your wife in her menstrual period. You must give her time to cleanse herself and totally recover.
She denies you sex, and you also deny her money to run the home and take care of the children.

She has now become public enemy number 1 in your eyes.
Where is the human connection?

To the politician and state official... who don't understand that the power they have come from the people and not the other way around.

Instead of they serving the people and speaking truth to power... they enjoy treating people as slaves
Where is the human connection??

If we are serious about changing anything we don't like in our society and our world today, we should not look unto our leaders only for answers. But we must first look inside ourselves first.

No single individual is responsible for making change happen.
We all are.


Kwame Sarpong |  Freelance Writer: 
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