Many people are suffering all over the world. People are losing their jobs and their businesses have collapsed. They have fallen ill. They have fallen on hard times. They are being victimised. They are the victims of crime, the rapists, the murderers, the killings and shootings.
How do people find the strength and courage to carry on, to rebuild their lives —- to take small steps and grow again?
We all know the reasons:
People all over the world know about this revengeful, hatred run country. They know why the bravest of the brave (the most courageous of all) are seeking refugee status. The hateful leaders whose Rorschach tests would be elucidatory.
They allow this:
If you peel the gossamer thin veneer off society in this country, there are millions of people who are suffering from poverty, from lack of opportunity, having family members killed. Women are raped, family members killed in cold blood. Crime where possessions are stolen, where the cars, household affects, government property—things are destroyed. Vandalism prevails. Poverty where people in townships have to commute from the early hours in the morning to the late hours at night. Poor workers are actually subsidising their own jobs while a system of government that has failed them.
It’s ugly. It’s post-modern decay and collapse.
Onwards:
With this, how do you solve your own personal crisis when no one cares? Even as a voter your wishes for a better future are fragrantly ignored.
Some advice from the Internet: If you Google it or use one of the new AI tools, you’ll find advice to pull yourself out of your misery — it includes being connected to your family and friends. Well there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s sound advice. But it doesn’t help you. Not in your personal circumstances. Where are you going to get money for your next loaf of bread, your next meal?
A quick aside:
I was reading a biography of Jack London, the famous author, and because of his unstable mother, his family landed in poverty in the meanest part of town in a hovel with filth and dirt and no food. He had to go out at 13 years old and do all sorts of jobs. It’s a story all over this country.
Back to the present:
Whatever your circumstances, the worst thing you can do is give up. Find a way—whether it is speaking to your church leader, NGOs, community health and welfare, good Samaritans, do-gooders—anyone who can give you a helping hand. Your government is not going to help you in any way.
Find advice on how to make income, because without money you’ve basically had it. People on the streets because they didn’t have the savvy, the wherewithal, the contacts, the just plain sense to find ways to make money. (This is not for those who are rolling in money; this is for those—if this ever reaches them—who need a helping hand.) They say if you want a helping hand, you’ll find it at the end of your arm. Well, that means also finding the right people who can help you. It’s not about fluffy do-gooder stuff — it’s about survival of the fittest; it’s Darwin basics: mutate, migrate (the bravest of the bravest option where the greatest courage is required), or die. The fittest means you have to be strong.
