30/10/2025
What Have We Become?
What a careless and silently evil people we have become.
We come to social media not to learn, not to grow, but to see who is suffering more than us — and then make sure they suffer even more through our comments and reactions, as if that could ease our own pain.
We wait for a brother or sister to fall, so we can be comforted that our pain is better.
We secretly share other people’s wounds, laugh in inboxes, and offer foolish opinions about how their situation “could have been avoided.”
We have gone so low that we now ridicule pain.
We have become so political that if someone belongs to another camp, they cease to be human.
I’ve seen church members mock grieving families because of differing beliefs.
I’ve seen young people insult the dead — calling an old man “iwe ka father” — forgetting that the same road awaits us all.
Fellow youth, God cannot be mocked.
Ala teti tushenteke Lesa bane... tabepwa.
We wonder why sudden misfortunes come upon us, why darkness seems to follow us — yet the answers lie right here, in our behaviour.
The Bible says, “Honour your father and mother so that your days may be long.”
That’s not just a command — it’s a divine insurance policy.
And yet, we keep seeing youths taking their own lives, trapped under invisible curses brought by the insults and dishonour we’ve sown.
Yes, our elders may have failed us, made grave mistakes, even corrupted the land...
But still — honour them, so that your days may be long.
Tevine
