Three remaining personal goals in life for Gonsalves

Using the launching ceremony of this country’s new driver’s licences to do some introspection, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves reflected on life as he celebrated his 62nd birthday.{{more}}

The Prime Minister, who was featured speaker at the ceremony which took place at the Inland Revenue Department last Friday August 8th, revealed to those present that he had three remaining personal goals in life.

Gonsalves said that the internal reflection was in response to a question asked by his daughter Isis concerning his remaining ambitions.

“I’m not talking about the ambition for the young people of this country and the poor and the nation as a whole and for the region, but personal ones.”

“I don’t wear my beliefs on my sleeve, but at times like these, I can speak a little about it. I was reflecting on it this morning after I read the Psalms.”

“The first one is at the moment of my death I must have no more sins to confess; that is to say I confess them on an ongoing basis.”

“The second: that at the moment of my death I must have no enemies whatsoever; other persons can have me as their enemy, but I will have none; so I go to meet St. Peter with a pure and friendly heart.”

“And the third one: at the moment of my death I must own nothing!”

“I will put my affairs in such a way that at the moment of my death somebody will have to bury me. I mustn’t own anything at all and I am putting my affairs in such a way that you don’t have to administer anything for me, that you don’t have to probate no will.”

The Prime Minister acknowledged that after death, the souls of all men will be judged in the same way, regardless of their status in life.

He indicated that he hoped to live long enough to have his personal goals realized.

“I’m not yet in my autumnal years. I have gone past my spring and I think I am still in my summer. I hope to live to 100. I don’t know whether that is hope over expectation.”(JJ)