Soek vir daai oomblikke waar jy weer die vreugde in jou siel kan terugsit. Skep die tye waar jy weer uit jou maag kan skaterlag en veg vir jou daaglikse porsie vrede. Ek weet nie van jou nie, maar ek het nodig om dit deesdae al meer in aksie te stel en dit \u2019n daaglikse ingesteldheid en roetine te maak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Noem dit doepa vir die siel, ankertjies vir die onweersdae of sommer net wat jy wil. Solank daai lekker ding wat jy doen of ervaar net weer die vreugdestenkie volmaak, want wraggies \u2013 doen \u2019n mens dit nie, gaan Eskom en die lot daai laaste bietjie lewenslus, vrede en vreugde uit jou wurg. My tenkie (nee, nie my petroltenk nie) het juis so \u2019n paar weke gelede daai behoorlike opvul ontvang. My kuier saam met twee goeie vriende, wat ek baie lanklaas gesien het, het die truuk behoorlik gedoen. Die kuier was kort, maar kragtig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van daai kuiers waar geen tekort aan skaterlag was nie, al het julle mekaar lanklaas gesien, laat dit voel asof julle nie \u2019n dag van mekaar geskei was nie. Die inhaal van die draaie wat die lewe met ons almal loop, word met lus gedeel; dan nog \u2019n onthou- en lag-oomblik dat jy amper \u2019n tekort aan asem ervaar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
En met elke staaltjie, elke porsie wysheid wat gedeel word en lesse geleer uit toe en nou, het ek amper gewens ons het \u2019n volle naweek gehad om langer te mag vashou aan daardie sielshelende spasie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nog \u2019n lekkerkry- en lekkervoel-oomblik is toe ek met groot genoegdoening vir \u201coom-gee-my-krag\u201d sommer so \u2019n lekker dwarsklap kon gee op een van daai dae toe die kragwoorde net die tong en mond wou verlaat. Toe my stopteken . . . haal diep asem . . . tel stadig tot by twintig . . . neem jou mag terug. Vir die volgende paar ure gaan daar nie krag wees nie, maar jy het in jouself die krag om beheer oor die situasie uit te oefen. My voete het koers gekry na die jeugsentrum so \u2019n ent weg van waar ek woon. Dis vakansietyd vir die skoolkinders. \u2019n Vakansieprogram is op die spyskaart vir die dag. En glo my, niks is vir my so lekker as om die vrolike, spontane uitdrukkings van kindergesiggies in aksie te sien nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek kon weer saamspeel en lag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Te oordeel na die skaterlag van die kinders, wil ek glo dat my danspassies tydens die ysbreker-deel nie sleg was nie. Die inheemse speletjies op die landjie het die adrenalien verder laat pomp. En in daai oomblik verdwyn die sorge van \u2019n spertyd wat gehaal moet word; word my dag heerlik anders ingekleur as wat ek verwag het. En my vrede- en vreugdesbekertjie loop oor. Ek het \u2019n huppel in my stap terug huis toe, en teen daardie tyd is die krag en die lig terug en pak ek my dag verder met vreugde aan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van die goeters wat deesdae soos \u2019n klippie in die skoen krap, is my dissipline rakende lees. Ek praat nie van daai vinnig-deur-die-dag-se-sosiale-platform-inskrywings lees nie; nee, ek praat hier van \u2019n goeie boek in die taal van jou keuse neem en lees, of daai tydskrif of koerant van voor tot agter lees. En was dit nie \u2019n lekker gevoel om weer daai gewoonte af te stof en deel van my daaglikse doenlysie te maak nie. Horisonne verbreed. Nuwe kennis word bygebring en die siel is gevoed. As \u2019n bonus kry ek nuwe inspirasie by, want my eie potlood is weer skerp. Vir my is die harde les geleer dat ons so vasgevang kan raak in ons eie pas voor die skootrekenaar, in die kantoor, by die huis met al die verskillende dinge en pligte wat nagekom moet word, dat ons soms die ander ewe lekker doen-goed afskeep \u2013 soos om te lees vir die lekkerte daarvan. Hoop jy tel sommer gou weer daai boek op wat jy nou al vir \u2019n paar maande wik en weeg om klaar te lees (soos ek . . .). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My groenvingers is hier in die hartjie van die winter ook weer aan die woel. Die groenertjies hou mooi belofte in en dan het ek sommer vir die mooigeit daarvan \u2019n klompie sonneblomsade geplant. Ek\u2019s seker dit sal iemand se hart bly kan maak as dit uiteindelik sy goudgeel blom in volle prag begin deel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daar is die dae dat die gemoedsbollie vir sommer alles en almal die oorhand wil kry. Nee wat, dan karaoke ek sommer in \u2019n japtrap daai onweerswolkies weg, gooi \u2019n stukkie vleis oor die kole, skink \u2019n glasie port en die lewe is weer \u2019n fees. Vir my is dit die gees van Suid-Afrikaners \u2013 ons laat ons nie sommer deur enige dwarswindjie van koers af kry nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nog minder laat ons toe dat mense of omstandighede ons vreugde en vrede steel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nee wat, ons draai die volumeknoppie harder en \u201ckappityt\u201d saam met Bok van Blerk se \u201cwys my jou lemoene en jou boerpampoene\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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