Letter of the Day - Being prepared

THE EDITOR, Sir:

WHILE I don't want to step on any corns or ride the "we saw it coming bandwagon", I must comment on the failure of the Reggae Boyz to qualify for World Cup 2002. This is a reflection of our society generally; waiting for the last minute and not being prepared.

We relocate the Passport Office which is a good thing but we don't prepare for the crowds we know will come. We allow vendors to get comfortable in no-vending areas for a long time before trying to relocate them the week before Christmas every year.

Every athlete knows that camp is Camp; change of activity, serious focusing, no sex, no liquor, no nothing that doesn't relate to the task at hand. And all those thousands of people who live on a certain beach and live on a certain highway which will soon be expanded, are we waiting for the last minute to go in at 3 a.m. to bulldoze them? I think not!

It is time for us as a nation to start focusing on the fact that we need to prepare for the successes we hope to achieve.

We need to demonstrate this in our everyday lives and arrest any thinking that does not send us in a positive direction. It is time we stop learning from our mistakes especially when we have made the same mistake many times before.

I am etc.,

GARFIELD ROBINSON

grobinson@jamaica-gleaner.com

Via Go-Jamaica

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