NO ONE MAN IS AN ISLAND!!

No one man is an island, we all need somebody and so when we act or live in isolation we decrease in intellectual size, we deprive others a shoulder to lean on, and we are reduced in our value of importance not only to our selves but to our fellow human beings, community and the world at large, just as Loeb would expatiate "that we become human only in the company of other human beings by opening our hearts and giving voices to our deepest convictions." The heroes and heroines we read and hear about today never made it all by themselves, but made it through social integration with others, because they refused to shrink from the world. Change can only come when we bring out the spark of vision, courage and strength in us. As a child, I had always wished I could make a change in my family so that my mother and I get a fair wage from the local company we worked every evening on my return from school. We had feelings full of worries and fear of losing our jobs if we ask for a fair wage, because so many are willingly ready to take up our position in horry. One evening, the owner of the local company commended my mother and me for a job well done, but my mother was so scared to tell him of our poor salary, for a fear that the manager might find out and sack us for speaking out. But I ran after the director and told him that our pay is little even when we worked full time, my complaint was investigated and that brought a change of salary not only to my family but also to others affected by the dubious act of the company’s manager, because I spoke out.

A developmental psychologist once said that “individual growth is possible only through interactions with the human and natural world and through experiences that challenges us.” Like Virginia, we feel we lack the potential, competence and quality to make a change until we make certain moves. We cannot sit back and wish we could make that desired change, but must act to make the change we desire. Loeb would stress once more that “silence is more costly than speaking out because it requires the ultimate sacrifice.” We sometimes don’t know our importance and value until we learn things we never knew about ourselves by acting and not by wishing; like being the mouth piece of others, being a shoulder for others to lean on by voicing out your opinion, because you cost of silence could be the stumbling block for others to excel, which in turn will shrink your soul, because you shrink from the world, go make a change.