Build an Observation Post!

By Dr. Synesio Lyra, Jr.

Apart from being nosy, and meddling into other persons’ business, I suggest that every thinking and advancing individual should consider establishing an observation post. The idea is to live more aware of what is happening in the world, which sooner or later can and will affect us in an adverse or beneficial fashion!

I know that it’s very depressing to watch local, national, and world news on television, or even just read the daily newspapers. Yet, only informed people can know when and how to act in the midst of rapidly changing conditions worldwide.

People need to know of changing trends in a variety of fields; one cannot operate unaware of maladies affecting certain populations of the world because it’s just a matter of time until that becomes a local problem as well. The same is true of devastating storms of various types which sooner or later may reach your geographical region after having brought much damage elsewhere.

Humans cannot live in isolation from other humans regardless of the distances which separate them. In many ways the world has become much smaller on account of speedy travel and the good or bad things one can transport from one place to another, which bring either blessing or curse, upon one’s return!

Such “observation post” entails continual awareness of trends and new realities affecting large segments of the world’s population. We observe these things through meaningful conversations, watching the news on radio and television, reading pertinent articles in magazines and newspapers, absorbing in some manner the content of significant new books which can inform us well in some vital sector of our operation in the world.

From your “observation post” you can be among the first to become cognizant of calamities affecting other parts of the globe, and how you can respond to those left in desperate need on account of those conditions.

Being part of the human family, we cannot ignore the adverse conditions created by wars, discrimination, slavery and racial hatred, religious persecution, and countless more evils being inflicted on fellow humans, both near and quite far. Keep your eyes open, maintain your mind in good functioning order, and let your hands and feet help produce and provide what can contribute to the alleviation of poverty, and other threats to the very survival of the human race!