TEBOHO PIETERSEN

  Why do we need a message and a messenger? Can we not figure things out for ourselves? We rely on someone else to guide us and to show us the way. There has to be someone who knows better than me and that can highlight the path ahead for me. We are vulnerable, insecure and a messenger who has the attributes can lead us in some direction. Someone who does not seem to follow, someone who does not seem to fall within the structure. Someone who has something to say. Someone who can answer the how.   We give up our curiosity to find out for ourselves when we follow and are lead. We are so ready to be lead. It is so ingrained in us to follow someone. We have always followed and believed. There has always been a parent, a teacher, a preacher, a president. They seem to be leading but are they really? Are we so gullible to think one man can lead the whole country?  I saw when I was older that my parents were very much doing their best but there were no extraordinary humans. ...

You’ve been on top of the world when you bought a new car  You’ve struggled along when the car had its breakdowns  You’ve taken it to a guy at the taxi rank  He’s fixed it fixed it fixed it and you are taken it back to him to fix it again These are the facts of how you lived your life  Trading trading trading each minute is worth some coins  Each hour is rewarded in money  Your entire life taking money for your time  You’ve had no time to see anything beautiful and and probably you never will  Your world exist within these four corners of your car  Like a caged animal that’s never been free  You’ve known nothing better  The four walls give you comfort and security  These four walls are your sanctuary  You had some moments of creativity  Took a camera to decorate your cage  Let the world live here with you  Let them see what you’ve reduced your entire existence to  I know you dream of more  But the ...

How we force happy endings at  the cost of our own peace   Like forgiveness    Happy ever after   While you are stuck with a monster  Happy ever after  As dark as the pits of hell  Happy ever after  Has never been this painful  Happy ever after cost us our lives   What she would do now to really sort things out and not brush them away with the invisible cloth of forgiveness   What she would do now to use a different instrument  What she would do now to smash the whole thing with a hard tool  But she forgave you know like how she was taught  Over and over every Sunday  She didn’t stand a chance she would live with forgiveness  As a forgiver It only meant she would be abused  The teaching was so deep that she would die before it was wiped clean off his consciences before he could ever see the danger of it  It killed him  They all said forgive  Give him another chance  What sheer r...

When you have resolved a conflict with another person whether romantic or otherwise, and when things are ok between the two of you, are you not at point completely resolved never to face that situation again? However you say that there will be another fight, as you say relationships always have ups and downs etc. if you therefore see that there will be another fight then you are never really fully relieved or content even after you resolve one fight. Even though you have resolved the one fight it’s inevitable that there will be another.  A child is nervous for example at the parent not only because of the present aggression but because of a history of aggression where they know that yes this is a good moment but soon it will erupt into some aggression. So you see this that our conditioning is that of conflict within relationships. We have accepted this is a way of relating and it’s absurd. Conflict must be ended for good and furthermore we can open up to the possibly that our relat...