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After Taking A Few Pods Off To Work On Some Professional Creative Projects, We Return With A Rather Early (For Dezember) Reflection On 2020, From A Rather Poetic Standpoint... One Of The Quotes That Have Always Stuck Out To Me From My Early Years As A Burgeoning Mediologist, Was Taken From A Flick That Dropped Decades Before I Was Even Conceived, "When The Legend Becomes Fact, Print The Legend."", That Bar From "The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance" Is The Central Basis For My Approach To Reflecting Back On What 2020 Has Taught Me, In Order For Me To Have The Correct Perspective When Looking Forward Into 2021 & Beyond, Into The Rest Of The Decade.
Taking A More Philosophical Approach To The Matters At Hand, We Highlight The Legend As I Choose To Remember & Document It, While Remaining Conscious Of The Cautionary Tale / Consequential Damages That Go Hand-In-Hand With Any Potential Opportunity Cost That We Are Fighting To Inherit Now & In The Future. I Pray That This Young Reflection Piece Comes In Handy, When You're Looking To Dala Your Own End Of Year Realignment Shalas, Now As This Rather Trying Year Begins To Draw Near An End.
May Peace Be With You & Yours!
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For The Past 7 Odd Years, I’ve Been Diametrically Opposed To Celebrating My Date Of Birth, As A By-Product Of How Unsuccessfully I Felt My Life Was Panning Out - The Reality Is, I May Have Not Been Where I Wanted To Be, At Those Moments In My Life, Yet I Also Can’t Overlook How Those Experiences Helped To Pave The Way For The Life That I Live Now - These Past Two Years Have Been A Little Bit Different, Partly Due To Me Now Being In My Late 20’s, And Mainly Due To My Own Growth Process Having Been Continued, The Point Where I Can Fully Appreciate All That I Am, While Also Having A More Vivid Understanding Of All That I May Be. One Of The Keys To My Growth, Of Late, Has Been The Mending Of Ties Between My Father, And I; Something That I Yearned For, For So Long, That I Had Moments When I’d Give Up On Things Ever Changing, Because It Seemed To Be Taking Too Long; I Guess That's The Beauty Of Faith, Even If You Have It, And Battle Moments Of Unbelief / Distrust In The Process, Your Ounce Of Faith Will Be Rewarded, To The Point Where You Are Incentivised To Practice A Higher Degree Of Faith; My Pops Used To Be Rather Prone To Missing My Born Date By A Few Days, As I Was Born A Full 7 Days Before Him, I’d Find It Easy To Understand How, But Harder To Understand Why, When I Could’ve Used That Welcome Reminder Of What My Life My Mean To The Person That Helped Bring Me Into This World.
There Are Times, Places, Situations, And People, That Lead Us To Reflect Upon How We Have Grown From Seeing The Problem From The Outside, To Being Part Of The Problem, When We Now Have The Power To Be A Part Of The Solution... On This Episode, I Reflect On Some Of The Downsides Of Our Come-Up As Young People, In Relation To How We Choose To Spend / Invest The Fruits Of Our Labour. #Pray4Black Is A Personal Reminder Of How I Ought To Comport Myself, In My Personal, Spiritual & Professional Lives; I Once Found Myself On The Block With Djouri & Toko, Chewing The Fat, Watching Young Black Folks Go About Their Daily Lives; When You've Grown To Realize The Pressures Of Being Black In Today's South Africa, You Begin To Look At A Lot Of Your Expenditure / Investments Very Differently, Due To Your Knowledge Of What An Ounce Of Opportunity Cost Can Do, When We Invest / Spend Our Money Wisely.
October 24th, 2018, A Legendary African Icon Ascended To The Heavenly Realms, In A Moment That Left Many Of Us In Disbelief - How Do We Lose Someone Who Gave Our Generation Hope, In A Time Where Hope Is Hard To Come By, For So Many Of Us - Jabba Was A Superstar, Who Allowed Me To See Who I May Be, While Resolving Issues I Had With Who I Was, Which All Facilitated The Platform I Needed To Be Who I Truly Am. It's Because Of Great Africans Like HHP, Who Lived Fully In Their Time, That I Too Get To Live Fully In My Time, Understanding That My Right To Life Fully, Comes With A Responsibility To Love Fully, And Fully Serve My Purpose. With All That Has Been Happening Around The Globe, And In Our Country Over The Past Few Months / Year's, It's High Time We Begun To Look Within Ourselves For The Answers That We So Desperately Seek, For We Have Learnt That The Power To Impact Our Destiny, Truly Lies Within Ourselves.
You Can Grow Oblivious To The State Of Deprivation In The World That We Live In, As A Result Of Us Being So Caught Up In What We Are Trying To Do In Order To Better Ourselves, Resulting In Us Not Always Having A Clear View Of The Entire Narrative - When Life Feels Like It Keeps Happening To You, There Will Eventually Come A Time When You Have To Make Something Happen, For You To Change The Trajectory Of The Path You’re On - It’s Much Like Watching The Game On A Regular Shmegular TV, Until Somebody Shows You A Full-HD Television Set, That Is Actually Attainable, And Within Your Means... You’d Do What You Can, To Get That Full HD Experience, I Know I Did.
As We Celebrate The Rerelease Of My Brother C.J.’s Book, Journey, I Felt It Right To Speak Upon The Journey That One Undergoes, When Creating... It Took Me A While To Fully Grasp The Concept Of Documenting Journeys, From Start To Finish, Especially As The Journeys Pertain To End-Products That Bring Value To The End-Consumer, And Fellow Stakeholders Alike. When I Reflect On How I Got To Where I Am Today, As A Professional Creative, I Can’t Help But Draw Inspiration From What I’ve Had To Overcome. It’s The Nights Where I Slept With Nothing More Than Two Slices Of Bread In My Belly, That Fuel Me To Create Today, Because I Learned How To Fight Through The Obstacles, And Create Back Then. That Rather Personal Reminder, Of My Driving Forces, Was Called Back To Mind Earlier This Week; In Conversation With Someone Rather Dear To My Heart; I Was Reminded Of My Own Hard-Fought Battles With Mental Wellness... I Guess I’d Grown To See My Battles With Anxiety & Depression, As So Much Of A Superpower, That I’d Begun To Neglect How I Initially Battled To Come To Terms With My “Condition”.
I Suffer From An Acute Form Of Social Anxiety Disorder, I Tell My Shrink That It Emanates From My 'Rentals Leaving Me Free To Roam Around Shops Before I Could Barely Walk, But I Know It’s Deeply Rooted In My Innate Desire To Be A Care Bear... I’m So Preoccupied With Fixing People, Places & Things, That I Get Thrown Off By Chaos In Certain Spaces, Or People... It’s This Very Same Anxiety, That Fuels Me To Create Content That Speaks To Often Taboo, Or Underrepresented Topics Within Our Society. With That Contrasting View On My Mental Health Issues, I’m Now Able To Draw Inspiration From My Moments Of Anxiety, And Use Them To Create A Better Reality, Which Also Serves To Heal Me A Lot More Effectively, As I Relearn The True Importance Of All That I Am, Good, Bad, Or Indifferent. It’s Much The Same With My Depression - Which Often Originates From A Feeling Of Helplessness, As It Pertains To Me Fully Serving My Purpose, As A Contributing Member Of Society - When I’m Down On Myself, It’s Because Of The Actions That I’m NOT Undertaking, To Correct The Wrongs That Held / Hold Us Back As A Generation, Because I Know That I CAN Always Do Something, To Help Better Any Situation. I Take Heart From My Battles With Mental Health; From My Self-Harm, To My Depression, Anxiety, And Substance Abuse; I’m Now Able To See My Mental Health Struggles As Something Of A Superpower, One That Allows Me To Tap Into The Highest Possible Me, Affording Me The Opportunities I Need To Delve Deeper Into My Being, And Fully Unlock Who I May Be.
To Win The Fight Within, We've Often Had To Fight Against Countless External Factors, Factors That We Couldn't Control - Part Of The Journey Is Documenting The Process, To Remind Yourself Of What You Overcame, And Hopefully Inspire Others Along Their Journeys As Well - What Separates Me Today, From The Person I Used To Be, Is My Ability To Fight Till The Death, For The Right Cause... There Was A Time When It Seemed Like All I’d Do Was Fight; Fighting To Be Understood As Selflessly I Understand, Fighting To Be Loved As Intensely As I Love, Fighting To Be Respected As Humbly As I Respect, Fighting To Be Believed In As Purely As I Believe In Others; I Still Fight Everyday, But Now It’s A Different Fight, Because I Fight To Be The Best Possible Version Of Myself, Every Waking Moment, Of Everyday, Knowing That The Best, Truest Version Of Me, Is Far Greater Than The Morbid Shell Of Myself, Who I Allowed To Be Hollowed Out By Anxiety’s, Depression, Insecurities, And Self-Doubt.
Dear African Child, Please Keep Fighting The Good Fight, I Know It Ain’t Easy, And We Battle With A Shit-Load Of Kak, As A Generation, Mara There Is No Other Way But Up, When You’ve Been Kicked Down, The Way We Children Of Africa Have Moered Since Before Our Birth.
Keep On Journeying...
Peace Unto You All!
Lesedi, Kganya!
Every Superhero Has An Origin Story, One That Explains Their Superpowers, While Also Underpinning Their Physiological Make-Up, As Active Combatants For A Worthwhile Cause. Creativity Is No Different For Me, As I View Our Ability To Create, In The Same Manner That We Grew Up Seeing Our Beloved Crime Fighter's. As I Prepare For A Busy 4th Quarter, I've Been Placed In Situations Where I'm Being Reminded More, And More Of My 2ru Origin Story...
Overcoming Trap Life, Took More Than Just Wanting To Live A Better Existence - I Spent Years Having To Deprogramme Myself, Holistically, Of The Countless Wrong Principles, Values, Ethics, Beliefs, And Constructs, That I Had Grown Up Being Taught - When You Unlearn Who You Aren’t, By Actively Working Towards Learning Who Believe Yourself To Be, You Quickly Learn That You’ve Always Had The Propensity To Become All You May Be... Sounds Trippy Right, How Can Years Of Substance Abuse, Sexual Immorality, Corruption, And Downright Skullduggery Be Used To Craft New Leaders Of The Free World? If You Believe, Anything Is Possible, That’s One Lesson I Know To Has Always Rung True.
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Dear Young African Creative,
Dedicated To Those Who Aspire To Play This Beautiful Game, The Way It Was Designed To Be Played, Beautifully...
The Last Trequartista.
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