You cannot be both hopeful and sceptical at the same time.
This country is doomed.
Time has run out. Standards of civilized behaviour will continue to decline. I mean how can a civilized person break a car window for a fukcing phone????!!!! Try and wrap that around your head ! Theft of taxpayers' money will continue on a gargantuan scale with impunity and with no consequences. Crooks and outright thieves are admired for being "smart" and will continue to be voted in time and again. Look around and look who is driving the fancy R4m cars courtesy of the taxpayers.

How naive people were to think that after the end of apartheid "everything will come right".

You must be very naive or very stupid to think that "everything will come right".

I tend to agree with Ben Layden.

I stick to the the Purple World Country. Here i am more than just hopeful.

On 2021-04-02 18:12:54 Ben Layden said:
You cannot be both hopeful and sceptical at the same time.
This country is doomed.
Time has run out. Standards of civilized behaviour will continue to decline. I mean how can a civilized person break a car window for a fukcing phone????!!!! Try and wrap that around your head ! Theft of taxpayers' money will continue on a gargantuan scale with impunity and with no consequences. Crooks and outright thieves are admired for being "smart" and will continue to be voted in time and again. Look around and look who is driving the fancy R4m cars courtesy of the taxpayers.

How naive people were to think that after the end of apartheid "everything will come right".

You must be very naive or very stupid to think that "everything will come right".

I understand your point and agree 100% with you, but like I said I'm a glass half full kinda girl ;)

To have hope is to want an outcome that makes your life better in some way. It not only can help make a tough present situation more bearable but also can eventually improve our lives because envisioning a better future motivates you to take the steps to make it happen.

Whether we think about it or not, hope is a part of everyone's life. Everyone hopes for something. It's an inherent part of being a human being. Hope helps us define what we want in our futures and is part of the self-narrative about our lives we all have running inside our minds.

We all hope for something. People that have loved ones that is alcoholics or drug addicts know the stats of recovery which is bad, but still hopes that one day they will be clean and sober. People still get married even though more than ever it ends up in divorce, but yet hoping that their marriage will be part of the success stories.

I know this country is doomed but without hope, what use is it to get out of bed in the morning? I will always stay hopeful but that is just me being me :) xxx

We always knew it was doomed

Jan Smuts once said that in South Africa, "the best never happens, and the worst never happens". He's been proved right so far. For us, for me, the best is certainly not happening. But the worst isn't happening either (So far).

On 2021-04-02 20:06:57 Galaxy @ Be-sensual said:
On 2021-04-02 18:12:54 Ben Layden said: You cannot be both hopeful and sceptical at the same time.
This country is doomed.
Time has run out. Standards of civilized behaviour will continue to decline. I mean how can a civilized person break a car window for a fukcing phone????!!!! Try and wrap that around your head ! Theft of taxpayers' money will continue on a gargantuan scale with impunity and with no consequences. Crooks and outright thieves are admired for being "smart" and will continue to be voted in time and again. Look around and look who is driving the fancy R4m cars courtesy of the taxpayers.

How naive people were to think that after the end of apartheid "everything will come right".

You must be very naive or very stupid to think that "everything will come right".



I understand your point and agree 100% with you, but like I said I'm a glass half full kinda girl ;)

To have hope is to want an outcome that makes your life better in some way. It not only can help make a tough present situation more bearable but also can eventually improve our lives because envisioning a better future motivates you to take the steps to make it happen.

Whether we think about it or not, hope is a part of everyone's life. Everyone hopes for something. It's an inherent part of being a human being. Hope helps us define what we want in our futures and is part of the self-narrative about our lives we all have running inside our minds.

We all hope for something. People that have loved ones that is alcoholics or drug addicts know the stats of recovery which is bad, but still hopes that one day they will be clean and sober. People still get married even though more than ever it ends up in divorce, but yet hoping that their marriage will be part of the success stories.

I know this country is doomed but without hope, what use is it to get out of bed in the morning? I will always stay hopeful but that is just me being me :) xxx

Great post, Galaxy gal.
The only thing i would change is to substitute "this country" with "this world".
Sad thing is that much of humanity has accepted their "fate" and have stopped living.

On 2021-04-02 21:25:59 Johnny English said:
On 2021-04-02 20:06:57 Galaxy @ Be-sensual said: On 2021-04-02 18:12:54 Ben Layden said: You cannot be both hopeful and sceptical at the same time.
This country is doomed.
Time has run out. Standards of civilized behaviour will continue to decline. I mean how can a civilized person break a car window for a fukcing phone????!!!! Try and wrap that around your head ! Theft of taxpayers' money will continue on a gargantuan scale with impunity and with no consequences. Crooks and outright thieves are admired for being "smart" and will continue to be voted in time and again. Look around and look who is driving the fancy R4m cars courtesy of the taxpayers.

How naive people were to think that after the end of apartheid "everything will come right".

You must be very naive or very stupid to think that "everything will come right".



I understand your point and agree 100% with you, but like I said I'm a glass half full kinda girl ;)

To have hope is to want an outcome that makes your life better in some way. It not only can help make a tough present situation more bearable but also can eventually improve our lives because envisioning a better future motivates you to take the steps to make it happen.

Whether we think about it or not, hope is a part of everyone's life. Everyone hopes for something. It's an inherent part of being a human being. Hope helps us define what we want in our futures and is part of the self-narrative about our lives we all have running inside our minds.

We all hope for something. People that have loved ones that is alcoholics or drug addicts know the stats of recovery which is bad, but still hopes that one day they will be clean and sober. People still get married even though more than ever it ends up in divorce, but yet hoping that their marriage will be part of the success stories.

I know this country is doomed but without hope, what use is it to get out of bed in the morning? I will always stay hopeful but that is just me being me :) xxx

Great post, Galaxy gal.
The only thing i would change is to substitute "this country" with "this world".
Sad thing is that much of humanity has accepted their "fate" and have stopped living.

Thanks :) fortunately we all have a choice to live life to the fullest or to stop living... I definitely live life to the fullest! Only way to go ;) xxx

On 2021-04-03 09:58:19 Galaxy @ Be-sensual said:


Thanks :) fortunately we all have a choice to live life to the fullest or to stop living... I definitely live life to the fullest! Only way to go ;) xxx

Well said Ma'am

On 2021-04-03 16:26:18 AnthonyEdwards said:
On 2021-04-03 09:58:19 Galaxy @ Be-sensual said:

.. fortunately we all have a choice to live life to the fullest or to stop living... I definitely live life to the fullest! Only way to go ;) xxx

Welcome to the "Live Life Club" Galaxy, I also live life to the fullest everyday ;)

Your very warm commendations of Galaxy, laudable in themselves, must not be used to arraign my judgment.

I too live my life to the fullest.