Why can things not stay the same?

29 October 2008

Why can things not stay the same for as long as we need it to be?

Here at the tip of Africa life changes far too quickly. Nothing is secure. Nothing is guaranteed for life. Not even our own lives. Chances are great that even our diamonds only last until it is stolen.

Life contracts and guarantees often run out before we do.

My Internet provider decided to focus on something else so this year I have to change our e-mail addresses. What a bother.

Our life long family membership at the gym was very short lived when "Health and Racket" stuffed up big time.

My Old Mutual pension turned out to be not even enough to cover my monthly birdseed expenses.

People adopt animals, just to dump them onto someone else when they emigrate or change residence. Companies go bankrupt daily and people become unemployed. Governments are unstable and that can change everything. Our computer and recording equipment become outdated before we do.

Why can't things remain the same so we can get on with living instead of replacing perfectly viable things or situations.

How can anyone plan for the future if global-warming experts and Bible-bashers keep on telling us that the end is near?

It seems that the only time we can expect any sense of permanence is when we are dead; or can we?

Nowadays our organs are transplanted after death. Even our cells may be cloned.

Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Yes, it is probably St Peter showing us to our next temp job in the heavenly worlds.

Who is the fastest - A flower or a Springbok?

21-October 2008

The question is not whether the Springboks play under an emblem of an animal or a flower; it is the recognition that it was patriotism that kept the Springbok alive this long, and racism that is changing it to that of a flower.

Is it wise to change an emblem that brought fame to both the new and old South African governments?

It was unity that incorporated "Die Stem" into the national anthem. It will be cold racism that may seek to remove it.

If a few vomiting rugby players want to play under the banner of the flower, the proud Springbok emblem must be up for grabs.

Who wants a famous emblem for their team?

Daar kom die bokke, Daar kom die bokke ........

Daar groei die blomme. daar groei die blomme.

Bokke! Bokke! Bokke! Blomme! Blomme! Blomme!

Which team sounds the most impressive:

The Lions,

The All Blacks,

The Wallabies or

the Flowers?

Then again, we used to call the Hippies "flower children" and they were forever using the peace slogan.

Perhaps the South African rugby players can use the flower (peace emblem) as long as they do not play like a bunch of hippies.

What an morale destroyer!!!

Rotten apples no food for a nation Sunday

2008 October 19

My eyes caught the television screen. The sound was off so I noticed the imagery rather than listen to the words behind the film.

I watch the wedding preparations of a wealthy African couple. The glamour and glitz is something like from a fairy tail. It must have cost millions.

I do not know who got married, on this day, and I do not want to know.

A message came clear to me. Here is an African couple that can spend the amount of money, in a few hours, which could have been housing and feeding a whole township of homeless for more than a month. There must be rot in the apple of African society if the gap between rich and poor is so great.

Does the money that is being poured into Africa, to make poverty history, reaching the poor, or making them even poorer.

Does BEE empower the unemployed, or just creating a different, even bigger group of unemployed?

If I were that couple, whoever they are, I would not be proud of spending that much money, even for the biggest day of my life. One can go overboard if one considers the suffering of other.

Then again, if I turned the sound of the television set on, I may have felt different. However - the argument stands.