Believe it or not, but there are some people who enjoy
living in a place that has no hope.
There are a few people in South Africa that actually enjoy
living in prison. It is unfortunate that there are some people who are born in
prison and thus they have to endure the unpleasant life of hopelessness, until
they realise, if they ever, that there is a way out.
I speak from a point
of view that has some sort of insight when it comes to escaping prison. I
myself have not really been in prison but my family has. And everyday I am
reminded about where we as the Zondi family come from, what we went through and
where we see ourselves in the near future.
In South Africa some of us see prison as a nostalgic
achievements, that we wear with pride. For example, all of our presidents (post
1994) have escaped prison, either they inherited this freedom or they themselves
had to escape. Prison is something that is synonymous with the concept of an
eternal emptiness. This concept was created by mankind. and because human beings are a collective creature being
ostracised is hell for anybody.
Can you imagine having to wake up in the morning not knowing
where your breakfast will come from, or during the winter you ask
yourself this question: Will I survive this time? Everyday you have to beg
people for money so that you can feed your little sister back home who is forever
picked on by the bullies at school because she is too skinny and her clothes are always dirty. Can you image being abandoned by your only parent who left when you
were still young because things were too hard for him or her, and you at the
age of seven had to take care of everybody and you needed to be taken care of
as well.
If you can't imagine this happening to you, then take a closer look at your beautiful country, then you don't have to imagine.
I'm sure a lot of people reading this blog are familiar with
the American series "Prison break", where a younger brother puts
himself into prison to go and break out his older brother, who was framed and
thus ended up in prison. Well for me I wish life was that easy, I wish there
had always been someone to rescue the innocent who are trapped in prison and
it's not even their fault being there in the first place.
Nobody deserves to be imprisoned by their circumstances, especially when they did not not have a choice in the matter.
For all of those readers who are a bit confused and may have
already started making assumptions about South Africa or the person who is
writing this blog, let me put your mind at ease. I am referring to the unfortunate and man made
prison called Poverty, and because it is man made it can be eradicated by man alone.
It is not that hard to help some one escape this eternal emptiness called prison, all you
have to do is give someone an opportunity to better themselves and encourage
him/her to do the same for the next person. At least that's one way of doing it, what
are your suggestions?
