Sudden Realization

Photograph by: Zandile Mcinziba

As I was home during the Easter holidays, I decided to venture out and see the developments that were said to be taking place in Colesberg. I went straight to town, and was welcomed by a strike and burning of tyres right in the middle of the road; and also noticed the deteriorating state of our roads that were full of pot holes that were majorly an effect of huge trucks coming inside our town instead of using the N1.

With great relief, I was excited that finally they were finally striking about the poor service delivery, roads full of potholes, and including the dirty water we drink from our taps. Sudden realization came in mind as I gathered the reasons, and was so disappointed to find that the strike was actually about a few people who were not even more than two; who didn’t want to accept that their contracts with the municipality had expired, and saw that they should bring in the poor people by telling them many different stories about the reason of the strike.

It has really come to such a disgust and insult on how those in power take advantage of our communities all in the benefit of their personal and selfish reasons.

Not All Who Wonder Are Lost

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One may be confused about what they want to become in life, may lose hope about all else and feel lost and alone; but there comes a time whereby you just realise that you have wasted so much time not knowing what to do.

There are times that you find wondering was all one needed to do in order to find themselves along the way, and has helped one to becoming more of a better person. It might have taken one years to decide on what their purpose is, where they want to go; but all that matters is that the destination will finally be reached.

Crossroads

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We meet people in our daily lives, and it is never guaranteed that the people we meet and those we become friends with will forever be in our lives; but still we let them be part of our lives for the time being they are still in our lives and we are happy to have them as friends, and or family.

A friend of mine once said “we meet and part with people, so rather treasure every moment you have with them for you don’t know whether they are there to stay or just for a while”.

That made me think about all the people I have met and parted with along the way, some were worth it and some were rather painful and emotional. Appreciation goes a long way; it is just for us to acknowledge all the good we have.

How do you step down from the top of a 100-foot pole?

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I am thinking to myself, if one has difficulty climbing down a 100 foot pole; how the hell did they get up there anyway?!

There are so many easy ways for people to get what they want at the time they want it; and it all gets down to the point of making good and bad decision for oneself.

When the tough gets going, there are only two ways I can think of to get yourself out a difficult situation. It’s either you slowly slide down the pole, or you just give up and hit rock bottom; which is not what I’d expect people to do because only a coward would give up without putting up a fight.

Bid For A Brighter Future

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Always wondered why so many communities make so much progress, whereas in other parts of the country they seem to be in standstill? I’ve always had the same question myself until I saw what happens when communities stand together and share their ideas and voices for the right cause.

It all started as a dream that everybody had, with everyone living in their fantasy world about what they would like to see happening in their community and town. Then, it may have seemed like a dream that will never come true; but today the community of Colesberg is nearer to having their dream become a reality.

It only took the people of this community unity and one voice to their dream nearer to reality, and the leaders listening to them and being their voices to those superior in order for them to be heard.

When people stand together with the same values and sentiments, a lot is highly going to be achieved. It may take years for dreams to become reality, for they will bring about change that will benefit those against them.

We Are What We Do

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You wake up in the morning and you don’t greet your neighbours when you see them, you keep starting fights with your colleagues at work and you are constantly aggressive towards the other drivers in traffic; but still you keep portraying yourself as the person you are not, you live a lie.

We wonder what we keep doing everyday that makes people see who we actually are, and what is it that makes them come to the conclusions they have come to about us as individuals.

We tend to live pretentious lives, because we want to impress the next person; not knowing there comes a time that these people will see the real deal of who we are. The schemes we do for the innocent people who did nothing wrong to us, truly show how greedy one is.

Many say “actions speak louder than words”, and it’s in this case where you find what you say always contradicts what you do. It would be wiser if people chose their words carefully before they spoke, but then again no one would know the right from wrong if that was the case.

The Book called LIFE

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Everyday we wake up and venture into the journey of life, and whatever we do will forever be written in the book we write everyday; called LIFE. As we walk on we create memories, some we would like to forget and some we would like to live on them forever and those are the greatest moments.

We meet people from all walks of life, and some we part from knowing that they once featured in the pages we continue writing for as long as we are alive. We cherish times, moments and adventures we take with our loved ones; and we do our best to make each and every second of it count.

We are all writers and publishers of our own lives, what we want people to know about us we let them know; and it is the same people we give a chance to feature in our pages that give us meaningful thoughts and events to write about.