@my_azania If you encourage a lawless, eye-for-an-eye culture at home, don't act shocked when your own people get an eye poked out abroad. You can't export hostility and expect to import hospitality.
i actually think "surface level" friendships are very healthy. not everyone in your life has to be your ride or die. some friends are for the gym. some are for going out. some are just for complaining about work or bureaucracy. when you stop expecting everyone to be your everything, the disappointment disappears. those deep convos and connections are for the 2-3 people closest to you
I'm driving past this little shop in rural Zambia in a small town called Isoka and I'm reminded how far and wide Africa supported South Africa in its struggle. And here we go...
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.