Abdullah Sweileh
In a time when the pace of development is accelerating and there are many means and capabilities, there is no longer a justification for negligence or negligence in performing tasks and responsibilities. The excuses have become part of our daily language, and we use it as shields that we hide behind to avoid blame or justify unnecessary default. Although some compulsive positions may justify absence or delay, most of our excuses today are only an easy way to evade commitment. If we compare our present to the past, we find a wonderful paradox. In the previous centuries, there was no comfort, technology and facilities today. However, people were more committed and serious in performing their duties, whether socially or professional. They were aware of the value of time and responsibility, and they performed their work sincerely, without looking for justifications for inaction or delay, unless the matter was completely out of their will.
Today, we live in an era that allows us to reach everything we need with a button. With this tremendous progress, we fabricated excuses in the simplest situations. We do not say that everyone is, but the largest percentage of people has preferred to justify the initiative and apologize for the achievement. The excuse became present before the action, as if we were preparing it in advance for any default that might come out of us.
Social relations is another example of this decline. In the past, despite the difficulty of transportation and lack of means, the ties were stronger, and communication is more true. Today, with the ease of communication and the multiplicity of means, communication has become weak, and the relationships are fragile, absent from commitment and care, and the endless excuses are covered, and even at the level of individual achievements, we find a painful paradox. Despite the availability of all the tools, knowledge and techniques needed by the individual, the results of the effort are sometimes much less than what individuals who lived in an environment lacking all of this, but they compensated for the lack of will and hard work.
What we need today is not more excuses, but more seriousness and responsibility. We have to benefit from the developments of our time, not to make it an excuse for our retreat. Technology and the abundance of capabilities are not a substitute for commitment, but rather are auxiliary factors for those who have intention and determination. The wisdom that we should be well is: no excuse in our modern era. We no longer have an argument for the lack of completion or default in the performance of duty. We must have responsibility, and wipe excuses from our dictionary, except in compulsive cases that go beyond human energy, with this only, we can rise with our society and be worthy of an era that allowed us everything, and we only have to use it.
