Let me critique the Malaika story of last week, nje just for the fun of it.lol Last week I read a very touching story. The story was of a boy who was going to a job interview, and boarded a taxi, running short of the taxi fare, this Taxi driver upon hearing this boys story was moved with compassion and said that he need not pay, infact to top it the taxi driver gave the boy R10. As touching as this story is, i felt that what transpired afterwards was more of a dramatisation of what should be normal, but rather this Taxi driver was treated more like a hero. This amongst others is what is usually referred to as a media hype over a non issue. The problem is that for this story to be seen as a superman intervention, a very dim picture regarding the state of society must be painted, a picture of an utterly hopeless and cruel and inhumane society, that the man who gives a hungry child half a slice of bread is hailed as a hero, even if that slice of bread comes from a loaf of bread. But in reality there was no act of heroism here, just another random act of goodwill which is prevalent in the society we live in. We may not be perfect society, but we have not yet been reduced to the level where a country must stop because of R10. Infact the moment we make good deeds an event, we are reducing ourselves to a society where people will start doing good so that they can be popstars. The reality is that each and everyday there is a lot of people sacrificing far more than R10 to assist people, and even those job hunting, there is people sacrificing a huge portion of their incomes to send orphans to school, to buy school uniforms, to buy groceries for the poor etc. I know of a man just few days back who assisted about 10 young people to attend a training with transport money that was more than just R10. Thus we cant be a nation that overly celebrate such mediocre good deed, that we must appear on the media, Radio Interviews, TV Interviews, Newspaper articles. The whole country discussing a Taxi driver giving a jobseeker R10. This driver infact took R10 probably out of R500, and just the nxt corner was able to recover it. Maybe the celebration can be understandeable because Taxi drivers are ruthless, i have been in Taxis where the driver would simply stop the taxi in the middle of nowhere because one person had not paid. I too had paid a number of times to ensure that the taxi moves, i mean we cant stop in the middle of nowhere for R7. So when one Taxi driver gives freely a R10 (which is nothing to him by the way), we jump up and down. But really now have we gone down to such levels? The answer is no, society doesnt lack heroes in that regard, in the regard of selflessness, sacrifice, goodwill, giving and philantrophy. Thus i fail to understand why we must then be subjected to a week of R10 Taxi driver, when there is more things to discuss. You can clarify me.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:22:18 +0000
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