paradoxes

the day has come for a re-entry into this blog. it has been long over due and much has happened in the meanwhile but as usual there is always that one thought that has been chugging around the brain, that will lead one back to the blog.

i have been lucky enough to have made many zimbabwean friends, through my days at rhodes. 2 in particular have become sisters to me. we have lived and laughed together and i miss them now. zimbabweans have always had this undying positiveness about their country and the situation there-no matter how bad it got, that was home at the end of the day and somewhere they all want to return to. i've learnt a lot from them and been able to reflect on my own country and what i think about sa. and you know, inspite of everything we have going on; the horror of the xenophobia of late and the ever rising petrol price, this is an amazing place. so many things in life has shown me that the little things are what makes the difference and that is no more evident than right here at home. so instead of going on and on about the petrol rises-i'm focusing on the fact that we can actually fill out cars-instead of complaining about the cold-i know durban doesn't really even have a winter if we are honest, 99% of the time we have beautiful sunshine filled days. i drink water from my tap and not a bottle. i can still drive with far reaching green valleys rolling out in front of me, further than i can imagine what lies beyond them. i can buy an independant newspaper written by independant and free journalists.

if just for today i can stop complaining, i'll be the better off. we have so much!

today i like: looking at the glass half full
today i dislike: ... (i'll save that for tomorrow's post)