Create a Future Which Has Light

I love to discover the creative side of people- especially when I find them using it to motivate others and to help guide their own lives in positive ways. Last month, I met a new friend at the local vegetable market named Mike. He has taught me a lot about life for people in Tanzania, and I have always been impressed with the way his conversations manage to be founded upon such a hopeful vision for the future. He decided to share a rap with you about success in life. He even wore white clothing that day because he said it would reflect all light.

Mike reminds us that we are in control of creating a positive future for ourselves. It is the simple things, such as a smile, that count toward success. Click the arrow below to hear his rap under the backdrop of stunning Mt. Meru.

Create a Future Which Has Light
By Michael Emanuel Sarakikya (Arusha, Tanzania)

In the Life, you have to recognize

10 Steps of Success

Speak and Act

Be helpful

Be thoughtful

Smile

Be considerate

Be friendly

Be generous

Respect everyone

Call people by name and

Speak to the people in order to succeed

Also, you have to arrange your life

‘Cause life is like a bloom,

so don’t blame,

Because some of the people,

they don’t feel about the future,

When they fall in life, they blame,

Also when they fall in love, they blame,

So I don’t know what to do and I don’t know where to go,

I work hard in order to avoid the folly that follows me in life,

You have to arrange your life in order to

Create a future which has light.