Toe ons in matriek was, het die Wes-Kaapse Onderwysdepartement dit goedgedink om George Louw se boek \u2019n Skip is ons beloof as dramateks voor te skryf.<\/p>\n
Dit is die verhaal oor \u2019n bandietskip, die Neptune, wat in Tafelbaai anker gooi met die doel om die gevangenes af te laai en die Kaap \u2019n strafkolonie te maak. Maar weens allerlei teenstand van mense op land word die skip verhoed om sy ongewenste vrag af te laai. Later begin die bandiete honger ly, want niemand wil hulle hier h\u00ea \u00f3f aan hulle voorraad verskaf nie. Maar uiteindelik stem \u2019n boer tog in om hulle kos te gee, maar dan weier die gemeenskap om sy kind enige mediese sorg te bied.<\/p>\n
Ons Afrikaans-onderwyser het toe gemeen die skip kan ook simbolies wees van die dood wat vir elkeen van ons bestem is. So is \u2019n skip dan onvermydelik vir elke mens beloof.<\/p>\n
En in Afrikaans het ons die idioom \u201cdie dag as my skip inkom\u201d, menende wanneer onverwagte geluk my skielik tref.<\/p>\n
Dit het alles by my opgekom toe ek onlangs \u2019n roudiens bygewoon het. Die skip kan vir elkeen simbolies iets anders beteken.<\/p>\n
Hier was ons in die ouetehuis se saaltjie byeen om van my vriend en kollega se ma afskeid te neem. Onvermydelik het die trane gevloei, want ons sal haar mis, al gun ons haar die rus. Maar wat my aan die hart gegryp het, was toe \u2019n vrolike singery meteens uit die saaltjie reg langsaan opgeklink het waar \u2019n oom sy 95ste verjaardag gevier het. Ek meen, hier het ons bedroefdes gesing \u201cBly by my Heer terwyl die skadu\u2019s daal\u201d, en hier langsaan hoor ons \u201cLank sal hy lewe\u201d en \u201cVeels geluk liewe maatjie\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ja, die ironie van die lewe darem. Wat my weer laat dink het aan die fliek The unbearable lightness of being van 1988. Hoe sou \u2019n mens dit in Afrikaans vertaal? Die ondraaglike vlugtigheid van die lewe, dalk? Of die onbeduidendheid daarvan? <\/p>\n
Want ons almal weet \u2013 vandag is jy hier en hou jy dalk nog partytjie, maar m\u00f4re het jou skip jou kom haal na streke wat vir die mens nog ongekaart is. En dit is die las wat ons dra: dat hierdie lewe juis so vlugtig, so vlietend is, en enige tyd kan eindig.<\/p>\n
Om te lewe, is lig, soos \u2019n kersie wat enige tyd deur die wind uitgeblaas kan word. Maar terwyl ons nou nog hier is, moet ons die beste daarvan maak. Sonder om soetsappig of pedanties te klink, lyk dit my daar is maar \u2019n baie fyn lyn tussen lewe of dood.<\/p>\n
Maar ons kan kies hoe ons wil h\u00ea mense moet ons onthou \u2013 goed, of dalk nie so goed nie. Van tannie Susan wat ons gegroet het onthou ek net goeie dinge. Regdeur haar pyn was sy altyd vriendelik. <\/p>\n
Eintlik, as \u2019n mens mooi daaraan dink, kan ons wel van \u2019n mens afskeid neem, maar hulle lewe in ons gedagtes voort, en s\u00f3 beskou is hulle nie dood nie, miskien net effens ver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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