What is it all really worth? Why are we constantly hustling and sacrificing and juggling in order to make time in our lives for what it is we claim to love doing...Someone recently told me hat if it was meant to be in wouldn't be so difficult to make time and you wouldn't need to sacrifice or juggle any of the other things in your life that you enjoy.
Over the past few months i have come to realise that i am blessed in the highest degree. My life is much richer and fuller for being part of a community of writers and friends and interlectuals who not only support me but who also constanly challenge my thinking and actions and most inmportantly encourage me to do better.
My mentor is constantly on my case about my irregular writing habits, encouraging me to write more often and at times even blackmailing me to write, by threatening to exclude me from events and excursions that will build my performance profile and at the same time enhance my writing. A case inpoint was a trip to Lesotho at the end of September 2006, an experience of a lifetime for me as well as a chance to spend time with some of the most brilliant, promising writers of our time.
The group included Napo Masheane, Kojo Baffoe, Myesha Jenkins, Kabomo Vilekazi, Lebo Mashile, Estelle Baffoe (Kojo's wife) and myself. I also got to spend time amd interact with Dr. Frank Baffoe (kojo's Dad) who last year at the launch of Kojo's books - Voices In My Head & And They Say Black Men Don't Write Love Poetry... - delivered the keynote address and put on the shoulders of the young writers there, the responsibility of taking up our place in this world and making a positive contribution to our societies.
Last year i was also offered the opportunity to Edit a Hip-Hop website (www.harambeafrica.com) that i couldn't turn down.
This is one of the experiences in my life that has opened me up to so many different realities and ways of living and expression.
Here is something i wrote a while ago,
AFTER MIDNIGHT
in the heart of the night
whilste the world is in repose
and sleep shuns me
i play...
leering through the seams
of this nocturnal occurance
i am witness to a different realm as
i play write...
my soul dances to the
soundtrack of this nightly purgatory
channeling visions to those lost in slumber
i playwrite dreams...
(C) Ayob Vania
18th October 2005
01h07am
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
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About Me
- Ayob Vania
- Who i am is not important in the greater scheme of the U-N-I-Verse. One of the many things that is wrong with the world today, is that we (individuals) take ourselves to seriously and therefore think to much of ourselves (as individuals). Emphasis should be put on the Collective Purpose of our existance and the attainment of the Greater Good. Our individual roles and responsibilities in achiving that Purpose should be our quest and once we know what that is, we should devote ouselves completely to achieving that Purpose and doing that Good.