Yesterday, I journeyed to Montreal to represent Spice Youth Toronto at the second attempt to form a Diaspora Consultative Committee there. It was a great event, the turnout was fantastic though not nearly as youthful as I would have liked it to be but still a success. It was also a great opportunity to meet with the members of other community organizations and another newly formed youth organization, Spice Promotion Youth Cultural Organization (SPYCO) and to further strengthen the ties that will take us through the Grenada Diaspora initiative.
What stuck with me the most however and I wrote it down and that I would like to share, was a quote on the wall from Mahatma Ghandi;
It said;
“It is the action, not the fruit of the action that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
I thought it was so apt for where I am at right now, where WE are right now…when there are individuals around who me cannot understand why I do the things I do. Why I sacrifice so much of my time, my energy. There are times I don’t understand it either, but yet understood or not, the drive is there. Always there, day, noon, night…pulsing, expanding, driving, demanding till I have no other choice but to obey, submit. For…