Plat Voet
"This too shall pass"
I don't know whose quote this is, but it changed my life in my last few years in High School. My English teacher taught it to me in a time where I could not think of anything but to get out of my current situation back then and it stuck with me. (Hopefully my English isn't too bad now)
I'm currently sitting in my resident room in Stellenbosch one exam away from half way through my fourth year in Theology (Obviously I'm not focusing on the Theology now seeing as I just created my own blog...). I recently went on a trip to Egypt to some new found friends and with it came an amazing experience. An experience which I think has adjusted my whole thought paradigm of life and love.
The image I added to this post is significant to me. It was taken in a town with a name that I do not want to mention due to security reasons, but it's not that fact that makes it significant to me. There I met with many people, some wanted to talk English to me without them knowing what they were saying and some just wanted to touch me, I felt like Jesus. Humbled.
The one I didn't meet.
Out of the corner of my eye (cliché') I saw a man. He did not know that I was from a different country, only that I was different. He stared at me. And me at him. He could not control his spit running from his mouth or the small motoric movements of his hands or feet. He had a dull grey robe on, common in Egypt, and stood there looking. Just looking. He was disabled in some way I could not specifically identify, but somehow I was the strange one? He was still and I was awkward.
We stared...and stared...(it became awkward)...stared some more...and then he smiled.
This man does not know anything of Shakira's hips that do not lie, Calvin Harris' Summer, Oscars trail on channel 199 or the crime rate in Stellenbosch. He doesn't care that Britney Spears' Baby one more time has 102 705 728 hits on Youtube or if Justin Biebers tattoo is Satanistic.
But he smiled.
This smile is my reason for my blog. The idea with the blog is still growing so give it some time people. Plat Voet is Afrikaans for "flat feet" or "feet on the ground" which refers to trying to stay humble. Hopefully this blog will chase me in my arrogance straight into humbleness. If you like it, it shall pass. If you don't like it, don't worry, this too shall pass.
I've got so much to write about. Give me time.
Love and Hope
