It has been announced that billionaire couple in Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are set to divorce. What has worried me further is an analysis done on the wealthiest people on the globe and also in other countries have had the highest divorce rates. The Gates are not your ordinary couple because they have given lots to charity work across the world including making other billionaires to commit to the giving billionaires pledge. They have separately and together devised and came up with many solutions to the global problems that are more complex than family issues, though the latter may seem more complicated but are things that can only be addressed mutually by couples. Before cracking some of the problems that they have handled, they must have thought about the problem and later came up with the conception of what was and can be done to address the problem. It was the philosopher Napoleon Hill who observed that “what the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”. It’s possible for the billionaire couple to conceive and come up with ways to address many challenges including this one of not living together as they are contemplating doing. It must be noted that we hold them with high regards and wouldn’t like a situation where they are parting ways if it is something that as we say in Africa, can be resolved.
The billionaire couple have handled many problems and can also crack the current cause of tensions in their lives. It is on this line that Anthony Robbins would later say that “Every problem is a gift – without problems, we would not grow”. Who knows that this situation for the billionaire couple is a new way through which they could crack the issue of broken marriages among the super-rich and successful? The major lesson that we can decipher from the ongoing case is the need for the successful and all of us to practice a life of balance between life-work-spirituality and socio-life nexus. Man is a creature of habit as noted by Aristotle and as such, human beings can create the good habits of balancing all aspects of life. It is possible to live a life that doesn’t leave one aspect of life being in an individual and as such the individual becomes all rounded being