Why freedom day is celebrated

Our country celebrates Freedom Day to mark the liberation of our country and its people from a long period of colonialism and white minority domination - which means that we no longer have the situation in which political power is enjoyed and exercised by a minority of our population, to the exclusion of the majority. Freedom Day is not an African National Congress day, but a day for all South Africans. When South Africa was liberated both the oppressor and oppressed were liberated.

On Freedom Day we celebrate the relentless efforts of those who fought for liberation, of the many men and women who took up arms and courted imprisonment, banning and torture on behalf of the oppressed masses.

On this day we commit ourselves to ensuring the defense of the sacred freedoms that we had won as a result of a long, difficult and costly struggle. We remind ourselves that the guarantee of these freedoms requires permanent vigilance. It is our pledge to devote ourselves to continue to work to wipe out the legacy of racism in our country. We need to ensure that all our people enjoy these freedoms not merely as theoretical rights but they must form the daily life experience of all South Africans.

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Don't lie to yourself

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Don’t lie to yourself, because lying to yourself will not get you anywhere. You will not progress in life because you are always fooling yourself thinking that you might achieve something about lying. 

An example would be a person that portrays himself or herself as a wealthy person but in actual fact is not wealthy but has a stable salary. That person will buy all sorts of expensive stuff so that he or she can be known as a rich person, but the real fact is that he or she can’t afford it, and ends up being in high debt just because of impressing other people. 

So for me lying to yourself is not a good idea, you might think that you are lying to other people but forgetting that the only person you’re actually lying to is yourself. 

Don't lie to yourself...be true and be who you are because you're unique in your own way.

laughing to good health

Studies say that laughing is good to health. I have found eight health benefits of what laughter can do to the body.

What can laughter do?:

• Lower blood pressure
• Increase vascular blood flow and oxygenation of the blood
• Give a workout to the diaphragm and abdominal, respiratory,facial,leg, and back muscles
• Reduce certain stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline
• Increase the response of tumour and disease killing cells such as Gamma-interferon and T-cells
• defend against respiratory infections even reducing the frequency of colds by immunoglobulon in saliva
• Increase memory and learning;in a study at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, humour during instruction led to increase test scores
• Improve alertness,creativity, and memory

So people please laugh a lot so that you can improve your health.

        

       

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the sound of one hand clapping

There is no such thing as a sound of one hand clapping. Only two hands can make a sound when clapping them, but to really think about it ,one hand can make a sound. It can only make a sound if you slap a person in the face.

You can hear the sound only if you slap the person very hard. Its a small sound but in the end it is a sound and a sound that catches attention very fast.

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Importance of family

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Remember the saying that says you can choose your friends but not your family; it’s true because you can’t pick and choose which family you want. And that sometimes can be the sad part, because there are times when you wish you can trade your family for another family, when things are not running smooth in the household.

Family is important because it builds up a person’s personality and how you behave, and what you become in life is very much dependent on your family life. Psychologists believe that a child learns the most from his or her family life. The way your family members deal with you has a lifelong effect on your personality. Keeping in view all these facts the importance of your family life cannot be denied. Family happens to be the most important part of your life till you grow up.

The life with your family is very important it plays a major role in your development into the person you become. The goals you set for yourself in your life are very much dependent on the life you have with your family. Family life is also important in the sense that it gives you your basic strength as a person. The people who have a smooth and well settled family life are generally less scared of life. Those who are a part of a broken family are generally less confident. These people always expect the worst in life. This is a general state of mind which results in building up of a negative personality. Family life is also important to people as it is the part of our life which has more effect on us compared to any other part of our life. The way a mother treats her kids is actually the deciding factor of what those kids will be like as human beings when they grow up.

not all who wander are lost

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Not all those who wander are lost, but more importantly most who are lost don’t wander. This is a frightening thought but it’s true when one thinks of it. I suspect that life has come to be, through its various manipulations, more like gilded cage than a well worn path. More like a cozy trap than an adventure. Far from the cry that nature is raw in tooth and claw, it seems that human nature is soft in stomach and bum. Sadly most people don’t die by seeking meaning, they die by comfort.

Ok, but some who wander are indeed lost (speaking of bums) and lost wanders are, to many, the scariest kinds of people. These are the utterly unpredictable people who wander across our paths occasionally. Now if we are not wanderers we only cross paths by their adventure, and if we both are lost at least these wanders have the courage to admit it, if not the strength to change it!

In fact they are not quite as unpredictable as we think at first. Certainly from the point of view it’s us, ‘settled’ people, who are unpredictable. We are set in our strange individual ways and we don’t just criticize these wanders but reject them.