Isn't it such a wonderful day to bask under the warm sun & sip on those cocktails as we take in the scenery or is it just my imagination running wild about the good times. Haaa, if that could be true we would be living merry lives. Right now it is so damn cold that the only meaningful relationship people are having is with their beds. You form such a tight bond with your blankets that you become part of them & you find it had to let go.
Anyway back to the land of my people, Africa! A continent so full of controversy, bad vibes, political mayhem, severe cases of life threatening diseases, financial crunches, war torn & yet with all this I still call it home. Ooooh, you thought that I would renounce my place of origin just like Judas renounced Christ, hell no that is not going to happen any time soon.
Yes this is a place full of all kinds of evils & all sorts of monsters in the closet but it is still where my heritage is from & am not ashamed of it. Am not saying that we live in a perfect world but we need to learn to appreciate where we come from. I have heard stories & talked to people who have left their homeland to venture out and go overseas (either to study, pursue a dream & such like) & most have have vowed never to come back.
Well, if that is what will make you sleep better at night so be it. Life is full of choices that either make us or break us & it is in all that, that you will learn you are the common factor. Where you hail from regardless of how native it is should not be shunned like the black plague. East or west home will always best (unless your people are quite savage & made you an outcast).
For example when you were growing up you wanted to leave your parents house & be on your own. Well here you are, even after all those years on your own you still feel as if something is missing. You yearn to be with your folks, to be cared for, to be guided & advised (even though at times it was not by choice). Likewise, here in our motherland we are in a land of plenty.
The valuable minerals, the scenic routes, the steady weather (yes I know it is chilly but would you have prefered that it be snowing, I didn't think so!), nature at its best, the wildlife & so on. All these are to be appreciated & we may only live once but we better make sure that each moment counts. Never ever forget where you came from, for it is your people who will have your back when you have no where else to go.
"You may move out of the village but you can not take the village out of you".African Proverb
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