THERE IS A LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR; BEWARE OF PEDDLERS OF CYNICISM AND CONSTANT NEGATIVITY -IT IS A MARK OF LOW SELF ESTEEM 

By Sunday Chilufya Chanda

It is amazing how negativity and cynicism can dehumanise those that carry and peddle it.

While the nation may be facing some challenges here and there, there are so many things to be grateful for.

Take the last few days for instance, some people shunned and condemned our country’s 54th Independence celebrations claiming there was nothing to celebrate.

For them Peace and Freedom is nothing to celebrate.

Negativity and cynicism can be self-degrading. While they shunned their own country’s foremost national event honouring the national heroes and liberators of their nation, the same people had only a few days earlier, made a frenzied haste towards a foreign embassy; to only flit around the peripheries as that particular embassy commemorated its national day.

They take the peace in their nation for granted claiming there is no freedom in Zambia; And
all the while, they engage in derogatory and insulting language against the Head of State and the PF Government through their media platforms that include radio, Television, Print and on-line platforms.

Negativity also turns people into malignant ingrates who see nothing good in the importance of the health and well-being of citizens.

While the country celebrated a major milestone- the first kidney transplant in Zambia, the cynics are (in) conveniently mute and have refused to recognise and celebrate this major national break through.

The fact that the procedure was conducted by our own Zambian doctors led by Dr Michael Mbambiko together with their Indian Kidney Specialist colleagues means nothing to these melancholic sadists.

They wish ill on others and only open their mouths when something negative happens.

Negativity turns people into tribalists, racists and xenophobic elements.

They sneered at the news that Chinese billionaire Jack Ma Yun, the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group, one of the world’s largest e-commerce websites in the world, was in Mfuwe, Mambwe District of Eastern Province.

As far as they are concerned, he belongs to the wrong race.

Negativity has potholed reasoning: the same negative elements that say “Zambians can’t eat roads” and on a daily basis moaned and belly ached about the previously bad state of the Mazabuka-Kafue road, have turned a blind eye and suddenly lost their tongues now that the same road has been rehabilitated.

As world renowned Psychologist Dr. Hendrie Weisinger, who is also a New York Times Bestselling author and a leading authority in the application of Emotional intelligence once said:

“People who project negativity typically have low self-esteem. They feel badly about themselves, and their negativity is simply a reflection of those feelings.”

Finally, as the songwriter exhorted: "count your blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the LORD has done".

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