the first place? If they are, they must acknowledge it themselves and declare their willingness to heal. What would you achieve without co-operation?
God helps those who help themselves, proclaimed a poster in one of the shelters. This advice is not to be sneezed at. (It’s going better with my mom now; she’s on the right track, I think. One that works for her – and that’s all that’s important.)
Hillbrow made me both streetwise and spiritually aware. It made me increasingly aware of how stupid and ignorant I in fact was. I understood very little about life. I would discover why people sell their bodies for sex only later when I tried it myself, and then I would also understand why someone does drugs with so much conviction.
Maybe it’s about a deeper yearning for the knowledge of good and evil; the knowledge to distinguish properly between your own light and darkness. Should we even try? Is it not perhaps mortally dangerous to dig too deep in our search for such knowledge?
I was a spectator in Hillbrow; I saw all the things that I would later do myself. Why did the time I spent there, and the incidents I saw being played out before me like scenes in a horror movie, not serve as a warning? Each of us follows our own particular path to reach ourselves. Hillbrow was the preparation for the road I had to travel to reach myself.
And don’t for one minute think I recommend it.
It is mortally dangerous.
I know it’s easy for me to mouth off. I survived. Let’s face it: I should have been dead already.
But I’m not.
And there is a reason why.
2
FOUR GUYS GET OFF TOGETHER
(A job interview in four acts)
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