Do not overstay our welcome

No matter how noble our cause or reason, do not ever overstay our welcome. This is indeed very true in every sense, be it in the political arena, a corporate position or even in a family. Time changes, we thought we might have gathered enough experience, expertise and knowledge, respect or even wisdom that we perceive that we are always wanted. This is not true because people needs changes and get tired of our ways no matter how useful or how effective we were the way we did things before. There comes a time, there would be  more resourceful ideas of solving problems, better and more talented sucessors to take over the helm and leadership of an organization or a nation.

Tun Mahatir was good and his NEP policy had shown great results for the nation and helped many to become well-to-do but the major portion of it now is becoming obsolescence. Even some of the beneficiaries of his policy had scorned at his ideas. A policy is good and applicable only for a certain time frame taking into consideration the citizen's sentiment, the prevailing background and overall ambient setting at that particular time period; it is not going to be a life-long panacea that could solve every problem that a nation faces. Time, with the advent of internet and ever changing external enviroment surrounding us compel us to adopt new changes whether we like it or not and we all have to accept this as a fact of life. We need to constantly formulate our national policies to face up the new challenges of the world. So even a national policy had overstayed its welcome!

It came out recently in the newspaper implying MIC president Samy Vellu has overstayed his welcome too. He should have realized this long time ago when his contemporaries Mahatir, Ling Liong Sik, and Lim Keng Yik etc all had stepped down and exited politics leaving behind trails of legacies for us to remember them while their influence gradually lapses into oblivion. The wisdom of a leader is to know exactly when it is time for him or her to pull out, from a not too late but already perceivable deteriorating situation and be gracefully retired to retain his face and honor!

As parents, we would like very much  to stay with our children even when they had grown up and have their own families. One fine day, they will have their own lives with their spouses that our long accustomed to each other life style will not find a place for us to fit in. If we insist to stay with them, trouble them when we are old and sick, thinking that they will respect and honor us as their elderly, we are probably again overstaying our welcome!

That is what life is all about and we have to seek God more as we grow wiser each day! For we know only God will never forsake us and make us feel overstay our welcome. Seek Him and find Him for one day we all have to return to Him and the Lord is always our shelter and refuge.