Chronicles of Fly

Before all you hopeless romantics panic and go into cardiac arrest, you should note that Valentines is not really cancelled, even if I wanted to cancel it I just would not be able to; because the chocolate and wine makers, restaurants and flower shops would go out of business. The headline was just to catch your attention and get you to read this. In Namibia it seems as though the concept of Valentine’s Day is mostly embraced by married couples spicing things up and love struck teenagers in high school. Most of the gentleman I know have broken up with their girlfriends to avoid paying for flowers that die in two days, chocolates that go straight to a woman’s hips and expensive restaurants that serve you steaks smaller than the slices at Kapana. Yep! Namibian guys are that cheap. We just don’t care about such things, romance is a foreign concept and lucky for me I don’t have a girlfriend to temporarily break up with, hence my conscience is clean come the 14 th of February. Normally I w...

It has just occured to me that I haven't posted anything in quite a long time, I can't blame unemployment for that (I've had enough time to deal with that). As much as not having a particular reason to get up in the morning depresses me, the problem lies with things I refuse to let go, things I held on to instead of severing ties. things that my heart refuses to confine to the past, issues that stalk me at night and disturb my sleep. Do not panic and start to worry, then conclude that I'm crazy; I just deal with the challenges of life this way.   Enough about my problems (i have the whole of 2012 to blog about them), I would like to share a few things that occured to me during one of my philosophical moments. Perserverance ~: steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement In situations of great distress there are two natural instincts/When you’re up to your forehead in shit then y...