How distant I am from the people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away ~ Khalil Gibran
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Together we are blind!
I started my day early, got a parking slot right in the front. Happy and smiley I was. After a long and tiring day I eventually get to my car and my foot finds its way straight into something. It was dark, I could barely see but..I could smell. I then turn on the flash light and see that my car has human poop all around. I was angry, bugged and just exasperated. Like which human poops around cars? Why do I work in an office where I cannot park my car in peace. Either I get scratches on my car or I am surrounded in the most hygienic of disinfectants. I see myself swearing at those souls that did this. Bugged, I drive back home just furious. I come home to a 3 bed roomed house with 3 washrooms, clean my shoes and continue to be angry. When the splash of water hits my feet, reality strikes me. A reality that I live in a country where more than 40% people do not have a house to live in, a bathroom to shelter their most private moments, a piece of cloth to protect themselves from the stormy rain or a meal to get them past a long laborious day. As a country we have been grappling with poverty, population for decades now. It angers me to see we have failed as a country, we have failed as citizens to do anything about this. I realize I am not angry with the poop, but with a nation that is actually full of folks who just learn to take shit, go back home drive in a luxurious car and cleanse their feet, wake up next morning ignoring the drudgery outside. I dont blame you reader, I dont blame anyone in particular, I just blame the community we form together, the nation that is us, the vision we all see putting our blind eyes together!
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