Someone once told me that wherever you see mango trees in their numbers in a straight line on a piece of land, it means someone planted them. Chaos is the natural seedling of nature and wherever you see order, you’ve seen footprints of a superior being.

The basic message of this long parable is that good things require planning and efforts and success doesn’t just spring up like wild shoots. Someone puts careful planning, thoughts, sweat, and perhaps their last penny into the results we see today.

Think of a nation, an institution, a family, an individual’s life, some people have made diverse contributions to making it what it is today.

It is the reason we need to remain humble. We are never self-made. From birth, we had to depend on others in diverse ways to get to where we are today.

Academically, various teachers have made inputs in us. Books we’ve read were written by various authors. Songs that kept us going during our down moments were written and sung by various individuals. To travel from one place to another, we had to depend on the expertise of a driver or pilot. Even in the means of transport like cars or airplanes are various equipment and parts designed and invented and modified by diverse engineers.

There are times our lives are positively impacted by the selfless prayers of someone somewhere in their closets or in some isolated mountain.

It is the reason why despite our struggles and hurts we need to take time and be grateful to God first and foremost. And also express our gratitude to the various people who have contributed directly or indirectly to what our nation is today, to what our institutions are today, to what our family is today, to what we are today.

In some people’s lives, their fathers, mothers, or both parents have played instrumental roles. There are others whose parents have abandoned them and yet some kind persons have taken them in like their own blood and raised champions out of broken hearts.

It’s time we took some moments to celebrate all the visible and invisible hands that have built us and our environments.

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