Playing for change

WE ARE living in a world that is, at this moment, in the harbourless, neverresiding river of time, in dire straits.

People suffer widely, are disillusioned, depressed, angry and they don’t know how to aptly direct their emotions, as the overriding problems are complex beyond easy conceptualisation and verbalisation. We visualise easy scapegoats, turn morals over to amnesia, and societal mistrust accumulates from day to day.

With the accumulation of irrational responses to lower existential angst, human suffering will consequentially, and increasingly, follow this or that way. Sadness. Sadness.

Some people turn instinctively to a variety of “drugs” to lessen their anxiety, trying to dull their soul: alcohol, weed, cool speeches by politicians, rugby, soccer or the way that the rand is heading. But I, being an incredibly responsible citizen of this country in turmoil, tend to turn my shakiness to the medium of YouTube on the internet. And there I found my cure.

People gathered under the name of Playing for Change. I will not spoil for you the experience by trying to explain my emotional catharsis. All I will say is that they will leave you with hope for humanity and the potential of a blooming future.

If they don’t, please put on your slippers and go back to feeding the cat or the little fishes.