You give and give and hope things will change. But sometimes, it just doesn’t, no matter how hard you want it to.
We all struggle with some sort of addiction in our lives but this particular addiction I’m referring to is not the demons we face in our lives; it’s the addiction we keep alive every day, it’s the addiction of our very own government.
One Sunday my pastor and I were having a conversation about changing cell phone networks to Telkom and he started speaking to me about not wanting to supply the government with their daily ‘fix’ in the form of our money being wasted. Then I realised that in our everyday we supply the government with funds for their reckless expenditure and we have no choice. See if you have a relative or friend with issues of addiction, you keep giving them love and money hoping they’ll change and sometimes they do but when they don’t, you start to realise that they will only be helped if they want it.
With all that’s been happening in our country, we have to ask ourselves do they really want help? Or is it just more deceit and lies in order to put us mostly at ease? Will things change or will we end up having to show tough love? That’s what I can’t answer because every day I feed this addiction. Fill up with fuel? Road accident fund takes a cut. Switch on a light? Eskom gives to the government. Make a phone call? Every single operator has government stakeholders.
We will keep on feeding this addict until we decide not to, but for now we just have to be understanding and show love and support, probably, I suppose.
