When is honesty too much?
Tsaying that the truth shall set you free is one of my favourite lines when I want someone to be honest with me. It’s usually when I’m snooping and I’m not getting a straight answer.
The sad reality is we’re broken as a community, we idolise being famous and live fake lives on social media to gain more likes and comments.
We spend more time trying to impress people we’ve never actually met on social media by portraying how we live it up to the envy of many. We have become more economical with the truth where are our lives are concerned, because we fear we will lose fake friends if we post what’s really going on in our lives.
I was very impressed when I read an article about of South African musician artist Sjava. Before I come across as someone who has something against the talented artist as it’s not my first time writing about him; wait I can explain. I can safely say the man is brilliant on stage, he’s a great performer; I saw him once in Durban at Black Coffee show, I was truly impressed.
He once declared that he uses muti. The comments came in thick and fast as people were shocked about the confession. From the little I gathered from the news clips and interviews is that he’s a very traditional man, even his music is in vernacular.
When a brave fan enquired what he uses the muti for; he replied that he drinks it for certain reasons.
Nami when I saw the clip at first glance I thought the worst, I just jumped the gun into thinking that’s why he has sold out shows. That’s why he’s very successful in his career kani cha it’s for his health hhayi kutsi uyatsakatsa or stuff like that.
I wish we all could be like Sjava and be honest at least most of the time.
But here’s my big question when is the truth a bit too much to chew on. When we are told that we have gained weight we turn red and cut that person off as they are mean.