CHAPTER THREE
STOP THE DUCKING
“DON’T EXPECT A SOARING FEAT FROM A DUCKED
EAGLE”
Why the ducking? Why fuel the car to run for only 50 miles and pack up
when it has an oil capacity to run for 500 miles at a stretch? Why celebrate
him as the palace messenger when he could become the city magistrate? Why force
her become an unfulfilled doctor when she could have become a celebrated beautician
and fashion designer? He would have been a great musician by now had he not
been forced into mechanical engineering. More souls would have been saved were
he a clergy but they insist he would be better at journalism. She’s got the
ability for the tenth grade though; they stopped her at the fourth. It was
obvious he would last to the 11th round and clinch the championship;
painfully they cheated him out at the 7th round. They were sure heading for the
finals of the competition with the crop of talents and skills they exhibited;
but they were tricked and fixed out at the knock outs.
He sure won the title; they gave it to his opponent. She knew who she
needed; they forced on her who they wanted for her. He knew what he could
successfully and skillfully do; he was pushed into doing something else they
want him to do for them. He’s got the right credentials and experience for the job;
but they preferred a mediocre who will accept half the pay. If she went for the
training she will return rendering greater service; but they wouldn’t let her
because they prefer an unfit relative to enjoy the benefits attached. He’s got
the ideas and skills to turn the organization around for the better though, he
was laid off quickly for fear of loosing their position to him. If allowed to
run for the election he will win by a landslide so he was hurriedly
assassinated. She stands a better chance of picking up the award though; her
name was excluded from the list of nominees. At another instance, they picked
up the least of her work just to blur her chance of emerging a winner. His
scores were high enough to get him the admission, but they denied him any. Her grades
were okay to earn her a distinction though; it was leveled down to level her
ego. So they felt.
It is him who is got the message that can ignite a revival in the
assembly though; he was framed up, placed on suspension and posted out. Though
she is long overdue for a promotion, she is left at the background because she
wouldn’t compromise to offer her boss what others gave. They were hired as
finance staffs which of course they qualified, but they are put into persuasive
corporate prostitution with targets to raise customer base by bringing in big
wig depositors to the organization. He or she was sign on to the club and
possess great skill, but left permanently on the bench for (ducking) reasons
best known to the couch. She is certainly the best hand for the job, but her
race, color, nationality or tribe is her undoing. His album would have sold
several million copies but they refuse to promote it just to punish him for
what they perceive as arrogance. It was sure going to be an award winning movie
but they messed up the making for refusing to succumb to their terms. He
promises to be a modern William Shakespeare, but piracy pierced his zeal, while
delayed and denied royalty dried up his passion for literary creativity.
On and on one can go listing these
potential depleting practices employed to keep high potential individual down
and ducked. They are divers and endless, and spare no sector of the society. It
operates at the high places of life as it does the low. No level is free of its
sting. From the home front to the social and corporate landscape, it reigns and
of course ruins (the lives of its numerous victims), under its universally
accepted name—“politics!” Every where is vulnerable, and that’s because of the
wrong and poor perception of people we have. It is no doubt a global error. How
unfortunate!
This chapter looks at a few sample areas these “ducking the eagles”
practices are most prevalent.
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Excerpt: STOP DUCKING THE EAGLES. Demand a copy today.
The sky glow’s a phase of magnificent beauty once the birds are up there doing their thing. Much so, the beauty of humanity on the earth is in phases. At least I think so. I am of the submission that a greater and better phase will yet show up. That era begins when we “Stop Ducking” and starts to “Let the Eagles Soar!”
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