WINDHOEK – The year is coming close to an end with only three months left before we say, ‘woza, woza, December my darling’.
Some made radical changes in their lives during this year and could look back with pride on their achievements.
I commend those who wanted to reach for the moon and missed it, but at least landed among the stars. I know I am becoming a little too poetic and have to make myself clear before some balooka misinterpret what I am saying.
Don’t go tell blunder stories in the kasie that Air Namibia added new routes to the stars and the moon and then gwazza someone for questioning you and kama checking you dom because “It was written in the newspaper.”
Let me make it categorically clear that no Namibian has been to the moon or the stars and we are not going there anytime soon.
I made sure to google – just that I also don’t make a mampara of myself and find out that the only ‘moon’ we have reached is the Moon Landscape – some laanie activity on a barren rocky desert in Swakkies where people go imagine themselves they are on the actual moon.
I really don’t know what is it with humans and the obsession with the moon and it actually doesn’t make sense why anyone would want to spend so much money and time there just to go float in the air, if there is no food, water, oxygen or a cure for Ebola and infectious diseases like AIDS.
But back to the phrase itself; ‘reach for the moon and land among the stars’ means in kasie terms:
If you were sleeping in your parents’ kitchen last year and promised yourself that you would buy a house of your own, but ended up with a kaya at Silver Town (Sewende Laan), then you have at least grown as far as you could and should pat yourself on the shoulder.
If you were using your NW2s (walking) for the past year and the ncinas have been hard on your moola and juvis, but then you got yourself a Dankie Botswana – even though you aimed for a Golf GTI, then you have landed among the stars.
If you stopped suffocating the English Language with grammar such as, “Can I pass away?” when you actually meant, “Can I pass by?” and also made an effort to learn proper usage of the language without excuses like, ‘English is not my mother tongue’ or ‘it’s Namlish’, then you have made strides in your life that you need to be proud of.
No one should have the time to listen to your every conceivable excuse in the book about why the bus leaves you every time or why you didn’t fill in that application for a bursary or job.
Then you wonder, “eto hina, am I just bad luck?
What I am saying is no matter how bumpy the road may be, never give up or surrender your dreams. It may take long, but as long you as you continue to reach for the moon, you may land on a star.
Sorry Ngo!
mnunuhe@newera.com.na