We are afraid of the wrong things

Today, South Africa has the highest crime rate, teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDS pandemic reports. We watch television every day, where we are told how crime can ruin one’s life and the rest of their future, YET , the rate continues soar. South African criminals fill local prisons and you tell me that they have been afraid? Hell no! If they were afraid of the things that they do, our prisons would be empty.

Time and time again, we see Lovelife billboards and TV ads, informing us about the dangers of having unprotected sex leading to teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS, YET, the teenage pregnancies  and HIV/AIDS cases of our country, remain one of the highest in the world, and you tell me that we have been afraid? Hell no! If this was the case, our elders would not be faced with the trauma of having to bury our countries youth themselves.

Many of us believe that apartheid has played a huge role in engraving inferiority in our day to day lives. We are afraid to spread our wings and succeed because we fear that someone else will be better than us. We are afraid to voice valuable opinions to the things we believe because we are afraid that we will not be heard or taken seriously. South Africans should start fearing things that should be feared, like landing up in prison for criminal actions, contracting HIV/AIDS and falling pregnant at tender ages because of irresponsible behaviour or to land up not providing for your family due to unemployment because we took the easy way and refused to go get ourselves education. We should start to be afraid of the things that are not of benefit to our live – things that bring nothing but trouble to our lives.