I CRY

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This poem is one of my favourite poems by Tupac Shakur. It just speaks to me and I listen with both ears.

The poem: I CRY
Sometimes when I'm alone
I cry,
cause I am on am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and warm.
They flow with life but take no form.
I cry because my heart is torn.
I find it difficult to carry on.
If I had an ear to confiding,
I would cry among my treasured friend,
But who do you know that stops that long,
To help another carry on.
The world moves fast and it would rather pass by,
Then to stop and see what makes one cry,
No painful and sad,
And sometimes...............
I cry
And no one cares about why.

How do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole?

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Stepping off a 100-feet pole will definitely have different meanings to different people. It can even have different meaning to one person at different stages of his life, there are 2 things for certain: you go up, and then you go down.

For me Stepping off a 100-feet pole means to take a risk. This is when you have to consider about doing something carefully, procrastinating, thinking and deciding and rethinking your options. Stepping off the 100-feet pole means that you finally say GO! to yourself. You do not know the outcome and you might fail or fall and hit the ground hard, but you take that step with courage in your heart.It also means starting over

You literally need to start climbing from the pavement again, step by step.

Youth and HIV/AIDS

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In communication science last week there was a discussion about HIV/AIDS and the lovelife campaign. This topic got me thinking about the youth in my community. They are only concerned about pregnancy and not about contracting the HIV/AIDS virus. The youth uses contraceptives to protect themselves from being pregnant but they forget that those contraceptives only protects them from pregnancy and not from the virus. They don't use condoms and some believe that sleeping with one partner is safe and they won't get the virus.
A girl from my community once said to me, she has one boyfriend and what is the use of being on the contraception pills if she still has to use a condom. I asked her if she and her boyfriend have tested and she replied by saying there's no need because we trust each other. This goes to show that some young people don't think about the HIV/AIDS virus and don't care about knowing their status.

I wish I could help my community by educating the youngsters both girls and boys about the seriousness of the HIV/AIDS virus, but knowing them they would say they are taught enough at school about the virus and there is no need for me to lecture them.

we are what we do

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When I saw this topic we are what we do, I automatically thought of actors, don't know why but it just crossed my mind. Actors are what they do because their audience or the public think they are the characters they play on screen and not the real person.

I once read in a magazine, a few years ago about an actress on Generations who was slapped in a grocery store by a woman who watches the show. The reason the woman slapped the actress was because she played a vicious character and the woman wanted to teach her a lesson, not to treat other people badly.

This shows that some people don't understand that characters and the person playing that character might be totally different in real life. Even today actors still have to explain to people that they are only doing their job which is to act and that is not who they are personally.

LIFE.............

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To me life is all about taking chances, about doing something everyone said you could not do. It is about acting goofy, not caring what other people think and it is also about learning to loving what you have.

My life has never been smooth sailing, I have hit the bumpy roads more than enough. I did not live the perfect life but I had always got what I needed to survive in this world. I had two mothers in this world but unfortunately God took one away from me, he took my biological mother. I do not regret his decision because at least he took her pains away but left us with the biggest pain.

Life has taught me many things, it has taught me to be thankful for all the things that I have and do not have. Some people do not have anything except for the breath they breathe everyday. It has also taught me to be independent because one day I might be all alone in this cruel world with nobody to hold my hand.

Life is precious and one should not take advantage of it...........

we are afraid of the wrong things

I believe that we are afraid of the wrong things. I am certainly afraid of doing something wrong because all things have consequences in the end. For some of us we are so afraid of being ourselves that we are all living in this pretend world, we are all great we should start believing that.

We all do wrong things at some point in our lives, we afraid of doing them but instead we still continue doing them. For example having sex at a young age, we know from the bible that it is a sin to have sex before marriage and our parents do not approve of such but we still go behind their backs and have sex with our partners. We do things just to impress other people and sometimes we are just bold to face our fears heads on.

I have a fear of rats and to some people that is the wrong thing to be afarid of, becuase rats have no harm. If my fear is wrong, what should I be afraid of in life?

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Do I look like a foreigner?

Do I look like a foreigner? because the weirdest thing happened to me yesterday. A foreign guy from Nigeria came up to me and spoke his language and it was not the first time this kind of thing happened to me, the last time was in 2008.

The Nigerian guy first greeted in English and I responded back,but then he started speaking his language which is unknown to me. I did not respond back but he kept on speaking without stopping to let me answer him back, after he had finished speaking I told him, I did not understand a word he had said. He was so shocked because he was so sure that I was also a Nigerian and did not want to believe that I was a South African.

He even said I have to find out my real roots because I have all the features of a Nigerian. I could not believe it this guy telling me that my parents lied to me and I was not fully a South African. I told my mother about the incident and all she did was laugh at me.When I was young people used to make fun of me saying that I was foreign, but never thought someone would actually believe that I am a foreigner.

fish falling from the sky

I used to believe that there is no such thing as fish falling from the sky, but the other day when I was busy searching the net, I saw an article about fish falling from the sky in Ethiopia. This happened in 2000 but I still don't believe that it happened, how do fish fall from the sky because all my life I was told that only rain, thunder storms and hurricanes fall from the sky and not creatures.

The article stated: :"the unusual rain of fish, which dropped in the millions from the air-some dead others struggling created panic among the mostly religious farmers." This is just one countless case studies of rains of fish, frogs, periwinkles and even alligators that have been cataloged over the centuries, many by famed paranormal researcher Charles Fort.

Such rains of creatures have been , in fact, come to be known as Fortean activity. It's believed that strong winds pick up the fish or frogs from bodies of water such as ponds,lakes and streams, carry them aloft- sometimes for miles and miles and then drop them over land. I wish I could experience this so that I can believe that fish do fall from the sky sometimes during severe storms

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Do Tokoloshe's exist or what?

I would really like to know if Tokoloshe's are real or what? It has been bugging me this whole week if they do exist or not. I was told that they do exist in the black world or community, they come with witchcraft and are very dangerous creatures.
This week something strange happened to me, my hair had been cut while I was sleeping. I only figured this out when I combed my hair in the morning, I had a bald patch on my head. I couldn't believe my eyes, I thought to myself are they doing what they did to my mom.She had to go bald becuase her hair was not growing all thanks to the things that were cutting her hair while she was asleep.

If I was sleeping with someone else than I would think it's that person but I sleep alone and I lock the door when I go to bed. This experince has made me to think that they acually do exist and they are out to get me, don't know why but they are after me.

what is the colour of the wind

Wow, I never thought I'll see the day where I have to write about the colour of the wind. What is the colour of the wind? this is a difficult question to answer and I have never thought about the colour of the wind...but I have random thoughts about the colour of the wind

The wind has no colour, it has all colours. The wind transforms into the colours it touches. Every season the wind changes its colour. In summer it is hot so it transforms to the colour red, and in autumn it transform to brown because all things turn to brown in autumn. In the winter season it changes to the colour blue, because of all the rain the season has and then in spring the wind transforms to the colour green, spring is associated with cool breeze and the colour green is also cool.

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