Month: January 2024
5 posts
The Extent of Humanness and the Dignity of a Person
In recent decades, there have been vast misconceptions about gender roles, differences, and definitions. The more traditional way of conceptualizing a person's humanness and dignity is by understanding what people mean when they talk about dignity and humanity. Dignity and humanity from time immemorial are a person's inherent virtues. Of course, this can be stated more clearly concerning a person's self-worth or self-respect. Virtue, stated differently, is about the person's intrinsic character content that reveals their personhood. It is the very essence of a person that makes them a unique individual or virtuous being.Have you ever sat down to ask yourself what it means to be human? Every day, I try a little here and there to ponder on this for the sake of justice and equity for everyone who crosses my path. I often ask myself, what are the basic features or characteristics to watch out for to conclude the extent of the humanness of a person? Is it because one can talk, run, walk, and work or engage in intellectual discourse and co-exist with fellow humans? Is it because of our physical body structure? Or is it because we possess a memory that keeps details of our past behaviors?How do we want to differentiate or define a human from other primates, for instance, since many primates could perform some of these essential functions mentioned above?
Why Do I Need to Live My Life with Purpose and Meaning?
The question that comes to my mind every day I wake up from my bed is: What legacy do I plan to leave after I am gone? The answer is what inspires me every day to work with people with mental health disabilities, and that is one of the areas where I derive meaning for my life. It is why I took Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Units 1 – 4. It is the same reason I have become a Certified Mental Health Coach and Certified Mental Health Advocate.I dream of radically transforming the mental health sector across Sub-Saharan Africa, hence my intentional immersion in how it is done in a more advanced society like the US. The effort here is to concentrate on my future legacy so that when people remember me, they will remember me as a worthy example to emulate.
What Mental Health Breakdown Starts to Look Like in Its Victims
Mental Health breakdown is very devastating for the sufferers and their families, but we can put a check on it if we know what to watch out for in the victims. Mental illness is now a global spread; young adults in their early and late twenties are the most vulnerable. Luckily, it does not happen without leaving a footprint over an extended period. If people pay detailed attention to its warning signs, it always leaves itself with a clue before its devastating damage. Early detection of symptoms helps curb the disease's disastrous impact on its victims. There are many convincing testimonies of those who have survived the scary scars of mental illness. Nobody needs to suffer in silence or be ashamed to seek help when required.
Why Transformational Leaders Are the Real Nation Builders
To build any viable nation, you need a different species of leaders called transformational leaders. We have had lots of these enigmatic leaders throughout the history of human civilization. Still, society has a shortage of them in Africa and around the Globe in the twenty-first century. Most transformational leaders don’t need political power to change human society; they need their conviction, roadmap, and strategy more than anything else. Don’t let anyone deceive you into thinking that you can’t make a change until you become a politician. The American Society, envied by all, was principally built into a flourishing state by entrepreneurs. The role of the government was to provide policies to curb their excesses.
What is a Good Life?
The virtues constituting a good life have been an age-long debate among philosophers. Socrates argued that a good life must be cultivated and chiefly valued. Aristotle conceived it as eudaimonia, the highest human good, the only good desirable for its own sake (as an end in itself) rather than for the sake of something else (as a means toward some other end). Generally speaking, eudaimonia is a Greek word for well-being, living well, happiness, and flourishing.Undoubtedly, everyone desires a good life or eudaimonia, but our challenge is how we might attain it without hindering the flourishing of other people around us. You can achieve a good life if you focus on developing a growth plan for yourself, decide to collaborate with other people, and give a good portion of your estate for others to benefit.