HOPE IS THE RESPITE OF LIFE. Hoping the HOPE into 2025

By Prof. Dr. Halimu Shauri

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This is the time of the year to slow down, reflect, and plan for the coming year.

When you slow down, you realise that some speed for some issues doesn’t work, while reflection is the greatest tool to assess success and failure.

All these provide an opportunity to plan to succeed for when you don’t plan, the late Dr Robert Ouko said you are planning to fail.

Already, the diary is bursting with competing activities in 2025.

The challenges of 2024 must not derail us from positive thoughts and plans for the coming year.

Apparently, no one knows what will happen tomorrow or even in the next second.

It is from this angle that hope makes a million sense and keeps us alive and yearning to see tomorrow. Hope has saved billions and continues to save more globally.

If you want to understand hope, then start being hopeful of what you are doing now.

Relaxing and taking an easy and friendly look of wisdom into the future is key as our Christian brothers and sisters celebrate Christmas.

What I see ahead seems promising, and a smile of appreciation is key in inspiring the valves of successful energy to open up and release enough power to concur 2025.

— Writer is Dean and Consultant Sociologist Pwani University