I logged into my Facebook account where I had about 100 acquaintances and friends from Saipan. I highly desired for them to see what I had just seen.
I created a group and invited them all. How excited I was to see just a day later more than 100 young and young at heart adults from my invited friends’ social networks stepping out in faith to believe what I was believing in Someone posted “Could this be a grass root to something big? Let’s hope so.”
I hope so too!
So why am I writing here? I have to be honest that as much a I desire to be the change I want to see in the world, I am not the most experienced, the most intelligent nor the most gifted. I am highly inclined to believe that I am uncommon though. I believe in a cause. I believe that Saipan can be different. I believe that it can be as prosperous as it once was, giving others the same prosperity it brought to my family and I. I believe it starts with the individual unit. I am a just a small element — a piece of a greater and bigger better picture. You are a building block individual gifts, talents, experiences and education combined is potential for a dynamic and kinetic explosion of change to occur all over the islands eventually the world.
How we each value ourselves is what others will see and value. How we see and value our island is what will drive others to return to Saipan. If we undervalue ourselves and talents divinely given to us, surely that will be what others will see. Saipan is a diamond in the rough, awaiting its gemstone cutter to harness the power that will allow it to be seen as the multifaceted brilliant gem that is really is. Do you see what I see?
I want to see the metamorphosis of Saipan. I have stepped out in faith to bring my thoughts out loud. Faith brings hope and hope brings the greatest of them all! I have set my mind to go back in 2010, if not sooner. I’m not going to let the circumstances hinder me from being the change I want to see.
I charge you all to be the change you want to see in the CNMI and beyond!
JEANIFFER HIPONIA
CUBANGBANG
Honolulu, HI
