Greetings fellow Earthlings
Thanks for dropping in.
I will try my utmost to make a blog post on a weekly basis. Posts will be relevant to South Africa but just ramblings and thoughts off a nonconformist,crazy, brown, South African. I hope that my blog posts will provide enough entertainment to warrant a weekly visit from you. Oh, I should mention from the onset...if you are a grammar Nazi or super sensitive emotional basket case then best you leave now. Don't bother complaining in the comments because I really couldn't give a Zuma's @ss. (We all know how large those can get....just ask Khulubuse)
Okay so back to the point here, this load shedding debacle and how we can turn it to our advantage?
Over the past few weeks I have been flooking Eskom with colorful superlatives at just about any chance I got and on various mediums. (Facebook, Twitter, watsapp, email...etc..) It seems when someone merely mentioned Eskom in my presence, it evoked a response akin to walking in on my best friend humping my girlfriend. I should have listened to the vet and neutered the bastard.
I decided that I need to re-program my thinking about #load-shedding and Eskom. After trying my ABSOLUTE BEST, there was nothing that would make me feel warm fuzzy feelings about #Eskom, they are and always will be a bunch of dumb@sses. So I decided to deal with the symptom instead of the root of the problem. For those of you who are a bit on the intellectually challenged side (people who will still vote ANC in the next elections) the root of the problem being Eskom and the symptom being load shedding.
Load shedding: The term itself is rather ambiguous especially for someone like myself. It could be used in so many variations, for example: A visit to the gents/ladies could be considered load shedding, Holding up an SBV cash truck and relieving them of their load could be considered load shedding as well. Dumping your spouse, could also be load shedding. Even a romantic encounter in the bedroom could be load shedding (from the guys perspective) okay okay you get the picture best I stop now before I go off on a tangent. Load shedding to South Africans pretty much has a general blanket meaning often evoking the OH FCK NOT AGAIN!!! response.
The thing we need to understand and accept is that load shedding is very likely going to be with us for a long time and the sooner we come to terms with that the better. Complaining about it does nothing to change the situation, it's just a waste of energy. Let the DA & EFF complain, they seem to do that rather well. As with everything in life we have a choice in how we deal with any given situation. You are where you are in your life currently because of the choices you have made. You are a result of YOUR OWN choices, it's nothing to do with parents, spouses, ex spouses or anyone else for that matter. Some will say OH BUT I became a doctor/lawyer.accountant because my parents forced me too, NOPE, BS! You chose to listen to your parents because it was the path of less resistance. You chose NOT to stand up to them and pursue a path that you wanted to pursue. There is always a choice!
Having said that, how we choose to deal with load shedding is entirely up to us. Let me explain, So we know that at least 2-3 times per week, we will have power outages for 2 hours at a time. In some weeks it could even be 6-7 times per week. One of the biggest health risks we have today is stress, caused from constantly being on the go and not having any time to relax or switch off. If you work in a corporate environment then you know how hectic it can get when you are constantly bombarded with phone calls, emails, meetings etc.. If load shedding happens during working hours then there is the perfect opportunity to use this time to switch off. Do whatever you want, go sit outside with that book you haven't had time to read yet, learn that new hobby you have not had the time to learn yet, clean up your office, even better shag a co-worker or be a little safer and find a shag buddy from a different company in the same office block. The possibilities here are endless, the important thing is that we change the mindset and see load shedding as an opportunity to do those things we normally don't have the time for.
If load shedding happens outside of working hours then it's even better, when last have you been to the park or the beach? How often do you complain that you never have time to spend with your kids? What about all those friends and family that you never have time to visit? Load shedding pretty much creates the opportunity for you to do all of these things.
So essentially what I'm saying is that we have we have a choice on how we want to perceive the situation. If you choose to see it as a problem then that's what it will be, if you choose to see it as an opportunity then that's exactly what it will be.
Some people will continue to complain about it because they are serial complainers, that's their choice. Don't get sucked into that, you can choose not too.
Okay thats my blah blah blah for this week. Let see what I can conjure up next week.
Thanks for reading, if I have offended anyone in anyway then please accept my sincere apologies, I'm sorry that I somehow gave you the impression that I give a cr@p.
Hamba Gahle,Totsiens, Lekker ouens, 100's, meet up next week.
