Mowabites Worldwide

Sometimes, local, national or global events can drive us nuts as we look on while a clown concocts motives for an injustifiable evil carried out against the vulnerable.

Doctors are exploiting patients, extorting monies and charging exorbitant fees for services to patients in critical conditions that have no alternatives. Allowances due national service personnel, and sometimes salaries of workers are withheld for months with no tangible explanations given, and nobody questions or holds the negligent accountable.

On our roads, accidents are claiming many innocent lives while the police officers that are supposed to check roadworthiness of vehicles take bribes from drivers and allow offenders to put many lives at risk, allowing carnage.

Investigative journalists show exposés of corrupt judges accepting bribes and freeing culprits while the innocent are imprisoned. Illegal mining is polluting and destroying our beautiful forests and water bodies, poisoning our rivers with mercury and other deadly chemicals, and yet nobody rises to demand complete halting of operations and offenders heavily fined or imprisoned, simply because it is these illegal mining activities that finance election campaigns of presidential candidates and members of parliament.

The list of global and local ills go on and on…and if you decide to ingest what the media feed us everyday, your stomach won’t be able to digest the far too many cold horrors plaguing our world.

On one hand you don’t  want to be part of the masses whose silence and inactions have encouraged a lot of injustice, corruption and murder. On the other hand, you notice that none of your screams has changed anything, or will ever change anything. The world keeps decaying into more madness, and you don’t want to be dragged into depression with it, your world coming to a standstill.

Even while one part of the world is locked in mortal combat with another, there are still parts of the world where milk and honey flow in serene environments, where people are busying about their daily activities, where life seems good. The people there are aware of the chaos in the world, but to them life must go on.

We are torn between two stark opposites, of ranting and complaining about the evils of this world, or of simply minding our business.

Humans have always complained about bad things happening locally and globally. What has all our talks produced?

Revolutions have come and gone. But how far have they taken us?

It is true that we must rise and and fight for justice, and be there for one another, and to do the little we can in our little spaces for the good of humanity.

At the same time, we must learn to find the balance, where we do not let the sorrows of this world drown us. For if we die sooner than we should, the world will always continue. Even when we die a natural death, the world continues…with its partying and fighting, with its fireworks and fire fights.