I had a quiet day today, reflecting on this animal called HUMAN …I find us quite interesting. I thought about wolves, Lions, elephants, baboons- at first my hypothesis was that as HUMANS we are the only animal species that kill, maim, steal and manipulate each other. And I began to do a little bit of … Continue reading
You see relating to someone is a process, it may be conscious or unconscious, but it’s a process. Continue reading
DearParents I KNOW it’s not easy (I’ve been there) but when you send your child to university, especially if they are very far away from home, please make sure they have all the basic necessities to keep their dignity. I know many of us that come from an old school want to also teach the … Continue reading
When Mandela died I became worried. Not because Mandela had died- after all he was an old man whose passing I had mourned many months before, as we tend to do with really old people (I cannot imagine what it would feel like to be 93!). What worried me was watching an uncontained, unmanaged public … Continue reading
Blinded by our own anger, blind fundamentalism and unconscious insecurity it’s so easy for people to miss a joke on Social networks. So quick to respond without any kind of understanding, because a pause will lose one their race to the podium of likes. We are so quick to then spew our rhetoric on someone … Continue reading
Once you discover your purpose, you stop being afraid – because joy overwhelms you. It doesn’t make sense to do silly things anymore- and the things you do, you do because you realise you can never lose. You can only learn, but you can never lose. So you don’t fear. Continue reading
I was sitting with one of my clients last week and also with one of my Nigerian friends yesterday , speaking global politics and of course local ones as well. The subject of Xenophobia came up, and almost invariably the “South Africans are lazy”(SAAL) line came up. I was quick to point out the fallacy … Continue reading
One of the more interesting phenomenon I experience whenever I introduce myself is the question “Where are you from?” or more accurately “Where is home?” Many times I struggle to answer that because my origin identity orientation is rather warped. I never really learned to answer that question simply. So inevitably I would precision my … Continue reading