By George Stanley Nsamba
Dear brothers and sisters, not to be rude, allow me congratulate you upon your most recent achievement as not many hit that milestone and not many of us had the patience to wait 19 to 23 years in school to put on that gown and get crowned so congratulations. You made us proud.
Now I know many of you can’t wait to just dive in and be the responsible citizens of the country and help contribute to the system that kept you confined in the classroom and wall fences for nearly 20 years, congratulations you just completed your mental prison sentence so now allow me reintroduce reality to you.
Wake up as you read this. You were told to be successful in school you had to graduate from a higher institution of learning and its only then that your education will get you a good job, university to be specific. Allow me dispute that because in my short lifetime I have come to realize that education has nothing to do with school and thus the most uneducated people are those that graduated from school.
Now in your ideal world you will be looking forward to end of month with a perfect job and have your face looking down on your phone like mine in this picture with a wide smile at the mobile wallet message for your salary or bank alert that your salary just came in time… harsh reality is you may grow wrinkles all up in your face waiting on that perfect job, that perfect opportunity,that perfect moment, that perfect place for you to explore all you were taught in school… and just then that you will realize it wasn’t about finding the value of X but rather U (you) in that equation because when school becomes your EX, its you left to pay the price for not paying attention to yourself while chasing the dream school set you.
Your biology teacher was my biology teacher 12 years ago but also happens to have been the biology teacher that taught our school nurse 16 years prior! Do you realize that in literary 28 years, as we all progressed, the teacher remained in the same spot? Why did he show us the path he never got to take?
Was it the comfort-zone for having a salary and fearing to fail ahead? Or probably they prepare us for the future they are sure is blick? You spent sleepless nights memorizing dates and fractions, personalities and eventualities ,events and moments all that its so sad you will never ever get to use…. But you passed with good marks and grades right? Truth is,in the real world in the 21st century, no one cares.
There is one thing though the world cares about…… “Do you have a skill?”
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Ediu George Stanley Nsamba, 28, is a Ugandan film producer, director, screenwriter, editor, spokenword artist and human rights activist. Nsamba, who saw her single mother diagnosed with HIV, grew up in the slums of Naguru, dropped out of college, but broke through the film industry internationally with his debut short film Crafts: The Value Of Life which was produced under his charity organization ‘The Ghetto Film Project.’
He has received 6 Film festival nominations, over 15 Film festival selections and was recently applauded by the Hon. Minister Ram Ashray Vishwakarma from India for his short film tackling HIV/AIDS protection and reckless behavior, ‘Time Irreversible’
