2016 was a great year especially for me. I
had so many things to figure out and to decide on. There was so much of
wondering and a bit of what ifs here and there. One message I got from last
year which transformed my thinking was “Don`t just go through life, but grow
through life, for Growth is Joy.”
I know my birthday is a bit far but I need all
of you my beloved friends to know that I am growing through life and I don`t
need past years negativity and witchcraft surrounding me. I don`t understand why
you people act like you are history books, and where do you get the memory to
keep such archives. The way I take selfies everyday my phone wouldn`t allow me
to keep any photo I took yesterday. But you people have photos from 5 years
back, my cousin has a photo taken in 1987 in her phone, I mean shouldn`t that
photo be at a museum at least or maybe a monument like “Dikgosi tse tharo”, that
would make sense.
You wait until they get a Facebook
notification saying “Its Tsaone`s birthday today”, Yo! Yo! Yo! You will swear
they just got out of witchcraft initiation, strong and ready to take down the
world. Before you know it your timeline is full of people you don`t even recognize and they are using these ugly people to wish you a happy birthday.
Why don`t you type “HBD” if you have nothing good to say. You peep through the
photos and you see three people, “the witch”, you and a guy beside you, when
you look closer, “Your Ex”! uhu... You don`t have any picture of you and this
guy/girl, don`t know how he/she might look like now, you don`t even know whether
he/she is in Botswana or relocated to Francistown and someone have the audacity to surprise you. Well I am surprised, very much surprised.
As if that is not enough, another one posts a
picture of you back then, before real phones and makeup, you know those photos
when you had acne problem and your face looked really bad. Hehehehe! 10 minutes
later you have 45 inboxes and 73 friend requests of people asking you what you
used on your face, sad stories of people telling you how long they have been
struggling with pimples and you should help them. Do you know how hard it is to
start replying to those people saying “ My sister I know what you are talking
about, surrender yourself God and you will find your healing. Let him cleanse
you, you will see miracles” when you know your skin is still the same but you
have grown to accept it and bought your makeup kit and a real phone. You know
better not to take that negativity to Facebook.
If you don`t have any good picture of me say it
now so I send you my perfect selfies. And delete all those photos you have of
me. Just delete all of them, I know they bad, you didn`t take me from my good
side and beauty was not activated, and that was not me. Do unto others what you
would like done unto you. Some phones are better left to do what they are good
at, calling and sending messages. Motho a te a leke go ntsaya senepe ka Nokia,
o tlaa utwa hela ka mpama ha gare ga matho. Less talking, more action.
