AI tog, doesn’t a new year just make you feel all new? I know some of you went and had yourself bathed in big ballies by prophets to kamma wash off all the dirt and sins from last year.
It’s understandable that 2013 was not an easy year at all, given that we also believe that the number 13 is associated with bad luck since we watched that spooky movie Freddy Kruger’s Friday The 13th.
Someone said it’s never too late to turn your world around. I know by now it might be a cliché but I agree; even the house kakerlakke and mice know by now not to chao the poison that you carefully set out for them.
I don’t wanna start the year off sounding holier than thou, but some people just refuse to make meaningful changes to their lives, oshiri. I mean, how do you go by, year in and year out, hanging around at the shops and outere a dollar? Are you hoping that the dollars will eventually add up to a million dollars po?
It’s normal that all families fight. People will always have disagreements because we can’t all think the same, but atata, some familias take it to the other level. How do you bash your own sister with a stone to the head because she ate up the last eggs in the pan? I know it sounds unbelievable but these things really do happen in our society where neighbouring cousins don’t speak to each other for years over the ka-little meat you cooked one night when you had guests over and didn’t ou them some.
Then there are some who are so holy. Vakuetu, they will preach God and quote all the best verses in the Bible, but kanti, they are the Devil wrapped in white cloth. Even the notorious Tant Mina who knows anything and everything about everybody in her lokasie doesn’t hold the cake to these type of skinderbekke.
Etoo, as soon as you turn your back, you are the next victim, but little do they know the nature of other gossipers.
They will skinder about you with their fellow friends with a big gossiping appetite but then turn around and bring to you what they gossiped about you, while pretending to be innocent in the whole gemors.
Not to forget those who became tycoons overnight and think everyone else is an idiot for not being as skelm and well off as them. Well, maybe they may have been ‘lucky’ but not any wiser – only just to find them a few years later creeping like mice looking for breadcrumbs.
I know I sound a lot serious this year, but remember it’s not just about the moola; it’s also about your spiritual and social well-being. Sorry Ngo!
Magreth Nunuhe