WHEN the HEART GROWS QUIET (Understanding and Overcoming Indifference)

This book was born out of the pursuit for a better and meaningful existence. This is still a part of the quest for a world where interdependence would be emboldened over everything else. In my observation of the different spheres of life, I continue to notice that the challenges for living were more pronounced than living meaningfully. The drive for independence can lead to indifference. It calms the heart. Within the family setting, indifference robs the members of meaningful existence. In the government, the leaders are oblivious to the citizens that she is expected to cater for. Indifference denies the citizens of good governance. In the organizational settings indifference causes the rat race where people walk over people in pursuit of promotion and pay increase. Indifference has led them to prioritize promotion over building relationships, forgetting that it is the connections they form-not their titles-that are ultimately remembered. At the end of it all, it is the relationships that one builds that last, but position and promotion will be forgotten the very second that you depart from that job. The church is not exempted from this pandemic of indifference. The religious settings that should be an example of love and unity have also joined the epidemic of indifference that contributes to the denial of meaningful existence. Leaders are consumed with making themselves good at the expense of the people that they lead. It turns the work environment into a field of blame-game. The way some people are treated in the marketplace makes one wonder if they are seen as invisible or faceless. Even in the healthcare industry, indifference has led to the cry for health equity and health security now more than ever.