Come and Lets Rehabilitate Our Social Relationship, with Time it is Fading Out.....

Hello Steemians, it is time for us to revisit the cohesion which existed some years past, the love we had for one another in the family and the community at large, the social gathering to take a common decision during certain crucial moments, the unity and the Spirit of togetherness, which portrayed that when one is affected, every one is also affected of the same trouble.

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I remember in my village in Ghana, during those days when that community affection existed, we did everything in common, we ate together, played together when the moon's light appeared; all kinds of traditional games were played till twelve 0'clock mid-night. In all nobody dreamt something bad about someone. Good social characters were taught in those days. Because of that there were not enough deviant behaviours and other social vices. One of the things which I cherished most in those days is how we helped each individuals and the community. During communal labour in the community, members in the community come together and tide the community, it could be weeding around the community, picking up the rubbish or litters around, distilling choke gutters, building school, erecting electricity poles, digging pits for toilet, clearing path and many others. On the eve of communal labour, the "Odukro"(sub-chief), inform the gong-gong beater to make announcement to the whole community by beating the gong. A defaulter may be funded with some amount of money that has been there as fixed price. This helped the community in diverse ways since apart from making the community clean and beauty, it make individual members to be law abiding, and also helped the community to raise capital to support the community financially. Coming to individuals in the community, during the preparation farming seasons in some where January to April, individual members put themselves together forming association that come together as group to help each other in their individual farms. These group go to each and every one's farm to help till all their farm work become exhausted. Since they used to start early, everybidy's farm is attended to. The group work supported the individual members in the community, and also eliminated the Spirit of laziness from the community.

Doing everything in common among the individual members in the community helped to maintain unity, love and peace. The individual members were seen as family not as isolation, during harvesting of produce and conveying of harvested produce, members used the same method, they called members and fix a date for the harvest, they come and harvest everything, the owner of the farm prepare food and all members eat together. When there was dispute among individuals, the chiefs and elders call those people and settle the case amicably. Justice and loyalty were their halmark, because of good human relation they tried to pursue. They strived to minimize shifting blames to other people, since they loved each other.

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Today that Spirit of togetherness is trying to fade out gradually. One would say that due to modernisation, those cultural practices have become outmoded. But, I must say that today, some of the things are needed in this modern era. Something like family and community gathering to resolve issues are of great important, but today, because of individualism, some of these things are fading out. Some of our valued customs are no longer cherished. We can rehabilitate the good ones to help our community to move forward.Communal labour is no longer effective in our communities, so our environment are full of rubbish and weedy, with lots of sting and choked gutters. As we speak now our societies have been dismantled with no love and oneness, everybody sees his/her colleague as rival, since that association of unity that existed in some years past is fading our. Today many people have tend every thing to be Spiritual; they see their neighbours as witches or demons who could ruin their lives. One man told me that today because of that perceptions of people thinking that others possess demons and witches, he has stopped given out gift to other people, since some people believe that through gifts, witch and demons could be acquired. Today, eating in group as was seen in some years past, have ceased to exist, because many people have that believe that through food, many people acquire witches and demons. So, through all these perceptions by individuals, how can we build togetherness or unity in our families, societies and communities? We need to do away with this mindset, and rehabilitate our good social relationship that existed in our communities in some years past.

My regards to @chbartist who has been very instrumental in the blog of community, it is true him that I became optimistic about this blog. I aslo greet all leaders and members who have been active in commenting, resteeming and upvoting in this community. Thanks all for your precious time you will spend on this post.