Are you holding something that you need to let go?

Are you holding something that you need to let go?  

  I think most of us struggle with letting go of something at some point in our lives. Whether it’s an unresolved hurt or unrequited love, holding onto something too tightly for years is bad for your health.

Sure we remain angry at someone for hurting us (physically or emotionally) few hours or a day or two, but thereafter one has to move. However it’s the long term baggage that one drags along like hate or pent up anger that it is the poisonous stuff.  You’re not doing yourself any favors by harboring emotions when the other person probably doesn’t even know that you’re angry at them; after all there’s little point in drinking the poison and waiting in anticipation for the other person to die. Get a grip and move on..

Thursday, 18 October 2012What irks me most about the modern day South African striker?

 

Where will it end?



  Post apartheid South Africa has a long history of service sector strikes, largely as a result of wage disputes, impoverished working conditions etc. Like myself there are many South Africans that sympathise with those workers, especially when they go on strike for a better wage or improved working conditions.

HOWEVER, when those very same strikers embark on a hostile pursuit for better wages and working conditions, endangering civilian lives in the process, then I lose any sympathy for their plight. In fact my blood boils, and sympathy turns into riotous support for the police and their use of force to subdue the hostile strikers. Who has given these strikers the right to harm (or kill) anyone in their pursuit for a better way of life? In my mind, they’re no better than the gangster on the Cape Flats who robs and kills for his own selfish purpose. This abhorrent mentality cannot be blamed on the age old scapegoat, apartheid. I personally blame the greedy unions and the blasé attitudes of the bigwigs who own the mines (politicians included) who have allowed this mob mentality to spiral out of control. I actually shudder at the thought of what they’ll do the next time they go on strike.