Chronicles of Fly

I don ’t make New Year’s resolutions, it’s not because I’m a pessimist, nope! I just know from life experience that they are vague and unrealistic. I have objectives instead, mostly because:   1) They sound more serious, 2) they’re measurable, and 3) did I already say that they sound more serious? So at the end of each year, I do a review; I take a deep introspective look at my life and find areas that need improvement. I then make a list of 3 objectives. That’s what I did at the end of a shambolic 2016. One of my 3 objectives for 2017 was to read 50 books. I know what you’re thinking, if most people can’t even read the weekend newspaper front to back, how would I read 50 books? I had a plan: 1) I would take a year off from any academic pursuits (more free time), 2) I already had half of the 50 books I needed in paperback (the rest I’d get as e-books), and 3) I don’t own a TV (less distractions). It looked like a solid plan.  We’re halfway through 2017, and I ...

Home is where the heart is. What if your heart is in a violent prone war zone? Home is home right? Home is where you feel welcome. Imagine not being able to live where you feel most welcome? Sometimes, home can be between the arms of the one you love. But, what happens, when their heart stops beating for you, And another takes residence in that place you call home? Home, what? Where? Home is in your own heart.

The year is 2017, Donald Trump is president of United States of America, and North Korea has the western world scared shitless. You are not dreaming. But this has nothing to do with the aforementioned, not in the slightest, this concerns cars and death.  In Namibia you’re more likely to die in a car collision than from cancer, 53% more likely says the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute. Every single time you get in a car could be the last time anyone sees you alive, every road trip is a dice with death and travelling by motor vehicle has become Russian roulette.   In 2014 Namibia was ranked 1st in the world for fatal car accidents per 100 000 inhabitants by the World Health Organisation (WHO) . I know it’s hard to believe. Namibia is known more for amazing landscapes that belong on a computer desktop, plentiful sunshine, and that one mammoth episode of The Grand Tour that had Jeremy Clarkson professing his love for the Namib Desert. However,...