Count to Ten

Just spent some time with my daughter at a small cafe in JHB and was struck by the fact that most South Africans are just happy to be out and about and enjoy what an amazing cultural experience our country offers.  I saw so many different people and it reminds me that we waste so much time with criticism, negative thoughts and comments about how bad our country is.  It is time to choose a path of positive comments and love for the country and to reduce the criticism to that which may actually be beneficial and to try and improve the areas, which are clearly wrong.  Things like corruption and poor service delivery and obvious injustices relating to BEE and racism, should never be tolerated, but what about the beauty and lifestyle and warmth of our people and the ability to worship freely and generally make a decent living.  We need to express excessively the positives and surely this will eventually have an impact on what happens around us.  Hurtful things we say and do now could end up being with us in years to come so the ten seconds we take to make critical comments should be reserved for positive and uplifting ideas.