Maintenance culture

Amanda Soke
Sep 2, 2018 · 2 min read

We live in an environment where we don’t even understand what it means to maintain anything. We only do something if we are gaining something, well that’s the rule of life. However, sometimes, can’t we just gain a little piece of goodness?

Politicians repairs road when election is round the corner, you repair your house when one of your kids are getting married etc. Do we still wonder why we do not progress as a country? Let’s ignore the role that religion has to play let’s look at ourselves.

Sometimes, I think we were not taught to maintain anything. It quite similar to how people are very comfortable littering the environment. I remember in primary school, we were made to pick litter on the school grounds every morning especially those that were late. If you do that for 9 years of your formative period, I’m sure it will make you uncomfortable littering the environment.

Sometimes at Ise, the idea is to put an expensive and solid fixture somewhere but the staff, oh those staff!, will destroy it in less than a week and you won’t understand how.

When Ise has new employees the destruction rate rises by 75%. You can imagine anyone will be mad replacing a lot of machine parts.

I recollect a friend telling me about some guys that were in his area asking people for money everyday to repair the road. And guess what! they did repair the road which was an eyesore previously. The best part of this story is that these guys do not live anywhere close to that area and they did not wait for the government.

Just a little bit of goodness. Their names never made it to the paper but the people in that area will never forget them.

We need to do a better job reflecting on ourselves and reflecting on what we want to see in our country.

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