lest we forget

Hello world...

So much is happening and yet so little is being shown. There's an outcry still about Gaddafi's Libyan rule in our mists and rightly so, some people are starting their own political parties in SA on social networking sites, perhaps to take a jibe at one that's just been formed and has backing. There's a group that reckons that Cape Town should become independent of SA, well it partly is... Cape Town has it's own feel to it... Then I noticed someone start their own party called DAD on twitter... Utterly hilarious yes and no... There's a need for South Africans to stand up for themselves...


But I wonder how if our education system's so atrocious, the underprivileged child still battles to get a half decent education amidst their circumstance. Our standards have dropped and value systems keep shattering, and the rise of violence steepens, once good communities now suffer from a surge of thuggery and violent acts... A weekend does not end without a shooting or death... You kinda have to worry or be uneasy if a stray bullet will not hit you... This past sunday as many were mourning the death of a friend, a girl got shot by a stray bullet and died... How ominous, A Death at a Funeral. That girl left home to pay last respects to a friend and now she is no more, may her soul Rest In Peace. May her family find solitude in that she is now at peace despite the timing or unseemlyness of it all.

It's the little things we have chosen to forget as society, the how to dress at a funeral, the value of self amongst a crowd. I once got to a popular spot to find someone had been executed and life was going about it's merry way, some were still drinking and others discussin' their own business, we can attribute it to a form of shock perhaps. But the biggest shocker was this: when we had arrived it had been a while since the incident had taken place and when we left the body was still lying there, I have no idea when it was picked up... But it disturbs me that the value of a life is not as precious as it used to be...