APPRECIATION IS PEACE: APPRECIATE OTHERS FOR PEACE

APPRECIATION IS PEACE: APPRECIATE OTHERS FOR PEACE

EXPERIENCE IS PEACE

EXPERIENCE IS PEACE                                                                                             

Experience is very important in our lives for peaceful living! A common sense without practice is no sense: experience without practice is inexperience. I learnt some safety measures from my three missing phones in a taxi, that I want to share with the general public. My third phone would not have gotten missing if I was continuously practicing from the experience of my second missing phone. I used to make sure that I keep the registration number of every vehicle that I travel with, and I was always following some Ten Safety Measures. Unfortunately, on the 21^st of this month I rushed into a taxi without checking the number.

When I got to my destination too, I rushed out again without following those safety measures; not knowing that I’ve left my phone in it. By the time I realized that my phone has fallen inside, it has sped off. I called many times when it was moving, but he did not pick. I have learnt that the experiences that we gather in life can give us peace, but only when we learn from them and keep practicing them. I would not have had lost my phone again if I was always practicing what I have learnt from my past experience.

Before I talk about these Ten Safety Measures, Ghana has gone through many democratic elections’ experiences. As a result, she has gained a reputation for herself as the “Beacon of hope for Africa” (GNA, 2013). This is an admirable and envious reputation worth protecting, but we should aim at becoming the beacon of hope of the world! To protect and improve this beautiful reputation, we must learn from our past experiences, correct our mistakes, and make election 2020 even fairer, more transparent, more beautiful and PEACEFUL than before. It is not all the times that we must learn from the Western Nations; sometimes they can also ask, “How did you do it?”.

Ten Safety Measures to practice before and after boarding a taxi this Christmas Season and beyond.

1.      Take notice of the taxi registration number before you enter, 

2.      Check yourself to confirm what you went out with, if any gets missing, you will know where it got missing and trace it.

3.      Do not remove the whole bulk of your money in a taxi, whether there are other passengers or not, 

4.      Do not unnecessarily show any other valuables like phones or laptops in a taxi, 

5.      Be careful with your utterances in a taxi, especially on phone or with another passenger(s),

6.      Respect your co-passengers and driver, but do not trust them too much. 

7.      Avoid engaging a any driver in a conversation whilst he/she is driving, 

8.      Stop, alert colleagues or get out of the taxi (SAG), if a driver is drunk and wants to drive,

9.      Check yourself again to confirm what you have, before you get out of a taxi or any moving vehicle.

Take notice of the taxi’s registration number again, before you move away. 

Reference: GNA. (2013). US investors tout Ghana as beacon of hope for Africa. Retrieved from https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2013/04/30/us-investtors-tout-ghana-as-beacon-of-hope-for-africa/ on 27.12.19 at 9:12AM.

EXPERIENCE IS PEACE