Given SHINGANGE

for the swimmers and those who watch the swimmers, those who would go under water only to emerge on the other side of the pool.

This for me is the same as meeting people and having a positive impact on their lives only to disappear and emerge later. The thing about this emergence is whether you are better than how you were when you went under, whether in your disappearance you learned what was supposed to be learned.

will those that saw you go under be proud to tell those that will only see you when you emerge from down under stories of how you once changed their lives. Or will it be a first for everyone. You don’t need to be the one telling your story, let others tell people about you.

Continue reading “the dive”

the journey, what journey?……..the journey of life, the entrepreneurship journey, and all the other journeys we are on. But wait, how are you on a journey if the destination is not clear. I actually think when one talks of the journey of life, the destination can only be the inevitable death, after all thats where we are all going. Down there.

So, lets not be too extreme and maybe entertain the journey narrative for what it has been made to mean. I think it has meant that since we are not that equipped in goal setting whether it be by design or choice, we are ok with the definition of journey as meaning that we are here, just here, and while we are alive we are on a journey.

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In the morning when i wake up i do the normal thing of reaching for my phone. Sometimes after taking it i realise that maybe i should not have done that since whatever i may come across may determine my whole day. So i did the same yesterday, this time i ended up playing the brother while lying on my back. Meaning i decided to offer brotherly advice to my sisters and brothers, sending them SMSs.

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Straight to the point, the people who stay in town and in the suburbs are the most unhappy people i tell you. They are actually not free. Everything about them is about security and permanence.

You see, like that bird that walks on top of leaves that have fallen on top of the water, i don’t know the name of the bird, we should all try to be like that. Realise that you can only stay on a leaf long enough before it sinks into the water and then move on to the next one. We just need to understand that nothing is forever, we should be masters of this, after all we all know we are going to die, and the most interesting thing about it is that, it can happen anytime. Today even. Blablablabla. Actually i read a book, a small one which i am still searching for about this bird.

Continue reading “two separate worlds but the ones in the seemingly good places are the most unhappy”

You know sometimes you must just sit back and think of where you come from. Especially if you find that you are struggling to break through somehow. In many cases this process helps you to see how much you have not changed maybe in that you are repeating what you did many years ago. If you write or keep a journal like myself you will obviously just get those old journals or even diaries to go through the entries. Well this is what I did recently and it really opened up my eyes to some shocking reality. In short I realized that I needed change, I am working on it.

Continue reading “The Hustle Continues”

Apparently I have some motivational traits, when I speak people get inspired….apparently. I have found myself avoiding to call myself a motivational speaker partly because the biggest targets for this motivational business are the christians because every motivational talk has to have that God line or two. The atheist in me will never say that. I might be wrong of course, but being wrong is ok sometimes.

Continue reading “where are these motivational speakers when you need them……fuck it, come out now”

i have never been very active or at least i have never been a card carrying member of any political party. I have never been too loyal I suppose given the default ANC vote that is expected from most black people in our country. I have voted for three political parties, of course i started with the ANC, lets say i was young and blind, the ANC was the party i was supposed to vote for, this was in 1999 when i could vote. In the next elections of 2004 i could not vote for the ANC, had to vote for a party and at that time, COPE was the new kid on the block and it made sense to vote for them mainly because the ANC was on a path i was not happy with and that they seemed to be representing the view that i was comfortable with. 2014, another new kid on the block the EFF, i voted for them and i am relatively happy with my vote and would do it again given the chance. I must say though that in my head i have seriously considered the DA. It is just that there is that thing that has kept me away from voting for the DA, but given my record i might just vote for the DA in the next elections, unless if there is a new kid on the block again.

Continue reading “its a bad idea to be politically inactive”

I have been referred to as being pessimistic and many other things that suggest I am incapable of seeing the positives in our country. I think the accusers have unfortunately not taken the time and the effort to appreciate the situation we are in as a country.
This time and effort refers to trying to understand really what we are headed for as a country. I can tell you now, that you only have to look to some countries on the continent and what you will find is that the script is the same, we are just a different cast. Not even the Generations and New Generations story.
Now, given all this, I really think we cannot just carry on as usual, we cannot carry on with the business of the day while our country is sinking. This is not a joke. It does not have to take guns and bombs for us to start realizing that we all have to fight, after all most of the fights we see everyday in other countries started this way.
I say we stand up and fight for our country, if not very soon we shall not have a country to call it OURS.

G

Well my daughters go to a private school (I am bragging). But I must also mention that every year there is this office that I visit at the school. The office is located behind the reception. I call it the promise office. This is where I go after I have received the letters from the school with the red stickers urging me to pay, this happens every year. I go in the office and look at the lady straight in her eyes and say, I will pay this amount by this date I promise you, and then I sign somewhere.

Continue reading “The Withdrawal”