Ice Bucket Challenge: Equality Factor

Have you been challenged with ice bucket?

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple Inc. accepting ice bucket challenge 

One of my friends enquired whether I have been challenged to ice bucket? Until then, I had not idea what is ice bucket challenge which was apparently going viral online. I was intrigued at this recent online campaign of celebrities pouring a bucket of ice water on themselves and screaming at the cold-water shower. It is an interesting concept but most of the people have misunderstood the significance of this newly invented challenge. According to my friend I would have been doing it challenging someone online. Now I am not too much fanatic about the new online campaigns despite its popularity among the people. I was supposed to have doing it because I am a priest and it is an opportunity to humble myself and showcase my equality with the ordinary people of the land.

By now you would have guessed what is the significance of ice bucket challenge. It is a sign to show that everyone is equal and everyone has a same feeling, rich or poor. According to the Forbes magazine online, the leaders of the world to show that they are also humans with similar feelings like any others do ice bucket challenge. It is to show all are equal in our corporate world. These are people who lead some of the largest organizations in the world.  They’re always proper and “on-script”, yet for the few seconds as they cringe from the shock of the ice water, you can actually see their humbleness and vulnerability. For those few moments, you see them as equal, you see them as “human”; as much a part of the team as anyone else (Forbes Magazine online).

As it is mentioned in the Forbes Website, the corporate people showing empathy, compassion, service to the people below them ‘off-script’. Most often corporate world has been criticized because of the widening gap between rich and poor or perpetual inequality of distribution of wealth. It is said rich are getting richer and poor poorer. Therefore, this is an opportunity for the leaders and corporate people who employ people to treat them with love, compassion, empathy and care not just throwing a bucket of ice water on oneself. We are all passing through this world, hence whilst the short time here on earth, we are asked to play different roles as Shakespeare would say, this world is stage and we are actors on the stage. Whilst playing our role, let us try to act with everyone with one unison, hence making a beautiful drama of love, compassion, care and empathy.

I told my fried, it is not fair to throw ice water on myself in a tropical country like Guyana, where in fact I would feel wonderful not the shock of the ice water hence defeating its purpose. May be I must throw some hot one on myself. Let us continue to strive for unity of everyone irrespective of who we are.