NewsDay (Zimbabwe)

Hope will never run dry

- Boniface Manjeya

HOPE is what we all live for. Hope for a better tomorrow, hope for better fortunes. The rich and the poor, realists and idealists alike hope is the hinge upon which our lives are anchored, for hope is the driving force behind all that we do.

We invest in the hope of getting returns, pray in the hope that divine interventi­on will come to our rescue and yes we plan in the hope that our plans will one day come to fruition. Taking the only thing away that is core to any human being is the most callous act anyone can do.

In the wake of the global coronaviru­s pandemic, the only thing that is keeping the human species going is hope.

We all hope that sooner rather than later a remedy will be discovered for this pandemic and things will go back to normal.

Hope is indeed key to all, Christians, atheists, rastafaria­ns, muslims, hope is what keeps us going.

Thwarting peoples’ hope brings nothing, but resentment and anger. We now had hope that the exposure of corruption and the ills of the government would bring accountabi­lity and a roadmap to good governance, but alas!

All hope for that freedom of expression and the road to a better tomorrow was dealt a heavy blow.

All hope was crushed, the people’s shining amour turning into a villain when the actual villains are sitting comfortabl­y. But remember history always has a way of repeating itself and yes the time shall come with or without the consent of the oppressors and the oppressed shall be emancipate­d.

The same will that sprung from the pain you endured from the colonial masters is precisely the same will that will also possess those that are being oppressed and history will rewrite itself.

The playfield one day will be levelled. Time always has a way of taking care of things. With or without your interferen­ce, remember time always has a way of resolving everything. This pain and suffering will one day vanish and the will of the people will prevail.

Hope is something we dearly will hold on to. Hope will never run dry. The wheels of life are always turning and trust me, fear is a dangerous applicatio­n to install in any living creature for the blow and retaliatio­n of a fearful creature is extremely fatal.

Always remember the seemingly calm rivers are mostly the deepest. You always taught us growing up that no bad deed goes unpunished. I hope you still concur.

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