Opportunity

It disheartens me somewhat when people of obvious ability and the maturity to couple that aptitude with due diligence and humility fail to get what they so clearly deserve, and their merit is unaccountably unseen and passed over. Globalisation has thrown the gates of opportunity wide open, and it is the responsibility of those gatekeepers to cast a percipient eye over the hopeful multitude that waves anxiously and shouts ambitiously at each opening of opportunity, and pick out the hand that holds a qualification which speaks of real quality, amidst a sea of certificates.

True meritocracy—the culture of fostering an elite without the taint of elitism—must be regarded not only as the key to individual betterment, but also the cornerstone of societal advancement, and a fertile intellect not afforded the best conditions to flourish and heighten inevitably impedes the overall growth of the social establishment. What was missing in the archaic and anachronistic aristocratic ages was opportunity; what globalisation makes possible today is also opportunity; and what we owe the aspirants of tomorrow is again—opportunity.