JCI (Junior Chamber International) is an organisation for young persons between the age 18 to 40. Last year JCI India started SMA (Senior Members Association) to reconnect older members. At a recently held SMA Conclave, Ashraf Ali Nizari was addressing the valedictory ceremony as Chief Guest.
He informed that the term ‘valedictory’
was drawn from a Latin origin ‘valedicere’ which means ‘to say farewell’. When
conclaves conclude, the delegates disperse while bidding farewell to each
other. Ashraf pointed out that it would be pertinent to bid farewell to all
that was preventing us from moving ahead.
He asked the delegates to bid
farewell to the smug situation of stagnation… to the plateauing of aspirations…
to the unwillingness to adapt… to the reluctance to learn new knowledge and
skills… he urged the audience to find new meaning and purpose to life by
‘saying farewell’ to all that was preventing full-on living.
We
restrict ourselves when we do not let go of the fetters that are forged due to
a slow-down in mid-life. The chains are in the mind and it is there that we
have to break the shackles. But before
we say farewell to the fetters, we must first know of their existence.
We
must identify what restrains us from our passion, potential and possibilities.
We must own up to the yokes that burden our progress. When we say farewell to friends
and colleagues, it is with an intention to meet again… but with fetters, it
should be a final farewell!
To all the fetters that frustrate your feet
Say farewell to those and do new feats!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
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