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Best Poems From
JULIUS BABARINSA
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Just Imagine A New Society!
Just imagine the people eating the right and correct foods at all times
Frequency to the hospitals for minor sickness will be greatly reduced
Many of human illnesses will disappear and vanish
The less number of patients the doctors have to look after
The more time they will have to conduct research
The medical expenditure of the government will be drastically reduced
The savings from medical expenditure can be channeled into education
Imagine free medical services and benefits for all the citizens
Self-medication because of poverty will come to an end
The poor and the rich will have equal access to medical facilities
Many will stop suffering in silence for inability to pay medical fees
And the citizens will feel that the government is actually for the people
Just imagine more and more people using public transportation
The number of motor accidents will be severely reduced
There will be less pollution from motor vehicle emissions
The less pollution will eventually lead to cleaner air
The cleaner the air, the better and healthier the environment
Imagine everybody regarding their neighbors as a member of their family
Everyone will become each others brothers and sisters
Hatred and dislike will be on their way to disappear from our midst
More caring and kindness will be evident in all places
Mutual compassion and thoughtfulness will revolutionize our society
A brand new friendly and benevolent society will be in the making
Just imagine single people discovering their soul-mates before marriage
The word called divorce will be on its way out of our society
Marital ecstasy and happiness will be apparent in all places
Children will be happy living with their fathers and mothers
Divorce lawyers will ultimately move into corporate and civil laws
A brand new society cannot be legislated into existence
The responsibility for a brand new society is on all of us
What part are you going to play to make it happen?
Please enjoy your life, eat right and stay happy
JULIUS BABARINSA
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Just Imagine...............
Some of us look at the present state of this world
And wish things could be different
We imagine the way the world should be
We visualize and hypothesize - it is possible
Imagine the whole world speaking one language
Then, there will be no need for translators
Everybody will understand each other
no matter where they live on planet earth
One language will reduce racial discrimination
and facilitate movements across national borders
Just imagine the entire world using one currency
The need to convert dollars into yen will vanish
or ask how many euros equals one renminbi
or wonder how many pesos equals one rupee
and speculate how many rands equal one riyal
All the folks in foreign exchange departments
will do something else in the financial market
apart from tracking the rise and fall of
money markets and its influence on stock markets
Just imagine the super rich taking more care
of the poor, the needy, and the unemployed
Then, the homeless will disappear from our roads
The beggars will vanish from our streets
An egalitarian society will be in the making
Just imagine free education at all levels
Then, everybody will be able to develop their
talents and natural endowments to the maximum
Scholars will not be burdened with heavy
student loans for the rest of their lives
They will think of better ways to improve the
society rather than think how to pay back loans
Do you feel all the above imaginations are mere dreams?
Who knows tomorrow! Some dreams have turned into reality
in our life-time. Please stay happy and be optimistic.
JULIUS BABARINSA
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Leaders And The Followers
Why are there few leaders and so many followers?
It is a fact of life that we all cannot be leaders
The question now is are leaders born or made?
How do you know who is a leader or a follower?
Leaders are known to be always in front of the action
while the followers walked behind them
The leaders cannot walk too far ahead
else they will lose contact with their followers
Leaders lead because they know the right way
The leaders lead because they have vision
They have the power to look ahead and speculate
This is the ability to see tomorrow today
Leaders must possess integrity and credibility
There must be transparency and accountability
Successful leaders must feel what the followers
are feeling and imagine being in their shoes
Good leaders lead by examples and kind deeds
not by empty words of mouth and cruelty
To maintain and retain the trust of the followers
leaders must be charitable, principled and tactful
There are notable leaders in all spheres of life
There are national leaders and leaders of legislature
There are civil leaders and leaders of the armed forces
We have band leaders, leaders of political parties
leaders of learning institutions, business leaders and more
The quality of leadership often sprinkles on the followers
Good leaders are sources of inspiration to the followers
The goal of the leader should be the overall
development and progress of the followers
Only leaders with vision and decency will succeed
in leading the followers to a bright and successful future
JULIUS BABARINSA
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Life And Death
It is said that there is a time to be born and a time to die
Many ask who decides how long we live on this earth?
We all know that no human being can live forever
Can we humans prolong our life on earth?
Human beings have the power to make choices in life
The choices we make in life can determine our longevity
Surely, the food we eat can lengthen our lifes span
Eating the right food can enable us to live longer
While eating the wrong food can shorten our lifes span
Occasionally, we are the architect of our own misfortune
A drunk driver who died in a motor accident
has nobody to blame for his or her untimely death
A drug-addict who fainted and died in his or her twenties
can only blame himself or herself for the premature death
Some ponder do our zodiac signs determine our lifes span?
Reality reveals that zodiac signs do not decide our longevity
Historically, people of the same zodiac signs die at various ages
Even twins who arrive on this earth on the same day
Will never depart planet earth on the same day
Few speculate do marital life lengthens or shortens our life?
There are various arguments for the yes and the no
It also depends on the type and kind of partners we have
As well as the quality of life the couples experience
Others ask do where we live determine our longevity?
There are many who die prematurely in some places
because they lack access to superior medical facilities
There are those who experience untimely death
because they live in poor and unhygienic environment
We must recognize that deaths resulting from natural disasters
such as earthquake, hurricane, tornado, tsunami and floods
can be beyond human control irrespective of all emergency planning
Wherever you may be living on this earth, please enjoy your life
Stay happy, contented and think of all the goodness in the world
JULIUS BABARINSA
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