Aphiwe Nquevu
For years I have sat on the sidelines of South Africa listening to my fellow countrymen and countrywomen from all walks of life angry at one another, accusing one another, hating one another. I grew up in a small village and later moved around some of the townships of my country, but wherever I went, I found the cry to be the same: blame the other, blame the other, blame the other. So unrelenting was it that at times that I found myself swept up by it: blaming others for everything that is wrong in my beautiful land. .
Our government likes to talk of unity in diversity, but the only thing I’ve known to be true in all my experiences here is ethnic hatred. I became conflicted with such hypocrisy, a hypocrisy that at times I was I was part of. I’ve always been conscious of my underprivileged upbringing and cognizant of the presence of those who had different experiences than I did. Peace, unity, and LOVE have always been far more attractive ideals to me.
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Sample Copy. For years I have sat on the sidelines of South Africa listening to my fellow countrymen and countrywomen from all walks of life angry at one another, accusing one another, hating one another. I grew up in a small village and later moved around some of the townships of my country, but wherever I went, I found the cry to be the same: blame the other, blame the other, blame the other. So unrelenting was it that at times that I found myself swept up by it: blaming others for everything that is wrong in my beautiful land.
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Copy here. These forces leave their scars passed down through generations, along cultural, gender, religious or national lines. We bear scars from the experiences of others: the experiences of our ancestors, the experiences of our peers. While most of these scars are not ours, we still bear them.
And so we build walls to help protect ourselves from being scarred again by those things that were suffered by those others.
But is it really our nature to live in this way: in fear and separation? Is it really our nature to survive behind these invisible walls? Or is it our nature to seek how we can live in openness, in connection, in love and in compassion?
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Copy here. Our mission is to help people engage in a new form of communication, one rooted in a genuine connection to one’s own vulnerable yet heartfelt feelings.
From such a space, an openness flows. There is no defensiveness, there is no blame, there is only what is: the genuine feelings that are deep deep inside.This shifts the speaker’s relationship to these feelings, to their truth, to themselves, which ultimately allows them to shift their relationship to the world.