Sharing culture but…

Sir,

The truth is that life is tough, it has its own ups and downs and highs and lows, but it’s up to each and everyone to choose which life she/he wants to live. Everything you do either bad or good affects your life one way or the other; that’s why it is much safer for an individual to lay her own rules and regulations which will guide her and not lead her astray.

I know there’s no better feeling than the one of acceptance, knowing that people around you love and acknowledge you is a nice feeling everyone wants to feel, but that can only happen if you are also ready to change and be what some people want you to be because not everyone will like your behaviour and style. So that means you will have to change in order to have space in their lives.

It’s sad how, as a group of people sharing the same culture and country, we don’t reach out to each other and try to understand that we are all different in our own ways. Each and everyone was created with a different specialty to the next person, so that when an opportunity comes where we have to work together in order to perform a specific task we apply our different skills.

There cannot be any uniqueness if we all have the same body structure and complexion. It is important that each and every person gives himself time to think or self-introspect to understand yourself fully and not have doubts because other people see something off with you. It is also significant to accept the way God created us and how marvelous he did it so that when people start saying negative things about us we do not hide because we know we were born for greatness. Do not judge and label yourself as a failure due to your relative’s downfall or weaknesses without giving yourself a fair chance. Life can be less stressful if more people could be concerned about their future achievements than focusing on what other people think or say about them.

Phumla Dlamini