whats happening with the world???
Tuesday, 9. October 2007, 03:29:28
My new-found friend and I were talking yesterday (it is strange how when we try and take ourselves back to the day we were born or rather we take our way of thinking back to the day we were born - like playing the 'fool'... forget about everything we've heard and about everything we've ever been told or taught, forget about everything we've seen or felt, what society has planted in our minds and see things and people with an 'untarnished' mind ... we make the most valuable friendships and meet the most remarkable people, people whom we would never have met otherwise... like the friend I speak of now - Mnamata).
He is/was a security guard at the complex I live, I approached him with a job offer as my fiance had recently lost 2 employees and needed help - I thought Mnamata would be perfect for the position and yesterday was his first day at his new job.
Anyway back to what we were talking about.... whats happening to the world?
Something that has been botehring me a great deal lately, maybe bcause my eldest had recently celebrated her 13th birthday and 'become a lady', time was moving on and now that she was a lady I think I was beginning to think about the fact that she would have her own family, etc and things like teenage pregnancy were on my mind and I was wondering and hoping that I had been able to instil a sense of values, morals and integrity in her and taught her enough about the 'birds and the bees' and the difference between right and wrong.... Mnamata also made me start thinking about the role money plays in so far as these values are concerned - Mnamate, only 22 years old, from a rural community here in Cape Town, took care of his 4 sisters and one brother all on his own (his girlfriend having sadly passed away a few weeks ago), of which all except one were still of schoolgoing age! This I might add is no easy task, I know as a mother of 3, that there are days when you really are at the end of your tether! How this young man does it is truly remarkable! Aside from that, he is wise way beyond his years and while on the subject of love and marriage and children of his own, his response was 'I have always dreamed to have a family, to have children of my own, but my dream for that has to wait until I am married and we have to go for counselling before marrying because I do not ever want to get divorced, I want my children to have the best, I want them to have a father that I never had'.... on the topic of divorce, we came to decide that the main cause of the high rate of divorce today is the fact that man and woman who are now equal, no longer have predefined roles in the relationship, they are both equal in the workplace therefore both equal in the home... how big a role did our (woman) desire to be equal to men, play in the sudden rise in divorce rates, the rise in the number of child abuse victims (or is it just a matter of 'its now easier to talk about it and therefore more cases are being reported'?), the rise in crime - after all when both parents are at the pub on a Friday after work having had a long week, who is at home with the children, teaching them the all important lessons in life, lessons which will make them valuable members of society?
He is/was a security guard at the complex I live, I approached him with a job offer as my fiance had recently lost 2 employees and needed help - I thought Mnamata would be perfect for the position and yesterday was his first day at his new job.
Anyway back to what we were talking about.... whats happening to the world?
Something that has been botehring me a great deal lately, maybe bcause my eldest had recently celebrated her 13th birthday and 'become a lady', time was moving on and now that she was a lady I think I was beginning to think about the fact that she would have her own family, etc and things like teenage pregnancy were on my mind and I was wondering and hoping that I had been able to instil a sense of values, morals and integrity in her and taught her enough about the 'birds and the bees' and the difference between right and wrong.... Mnamata also made me start thinking about the role money plays in so far as these values are concerned - Mnamate, only 22 years old, from a rural community here in Cape Town, took care of his 4 sisters and one brother all on his own (his girlfriend having sadly passed away a few weeks ago), of which all except one were still of schoolgoing age! This I might add is no easy task, I know as a mother of 3, that there are days when you really are at the end of your tether! How this young man does it is truly remarkable! Aside from that, he is wise way beyond his years and while on the subject of love and marriage and children of his own, his response was 'I have always dreamed to have a family, to have children of my own, but my dream for that has to wait until I am married and we have to go for counselling before marrying because I do not ever want to get divorced, I want my children to have the best, I want them to have a father that I never had'.... on the topic of divorce, we came to decide that the main cause of the high rate of divorce today is the fact that man and woman who are now equal, no longer have predefined roles in the relationship, they are both equal in the workplace therefore both equal in the home... how big a role did our (woman) desire to be equal to men, play in the sudden rise in divorce rates, the rise in the number of child abuse victims (or is it just a matter of 'its now easier to talk about it and therefore more cases are being reported'?), the rise in crime - after all when both parents are at the pub on a Friday after work having had a long week, who is at home with the children, teaching them the all important lessons in life, lessons which will make them valuable members of society?
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