Work hard at school, go to university, get married, buy a house, have 2,5 children, get a puppy, decorate with a Live-Laugh-Love poster and live happily ever after, all while making small talk about the weather with friends and neighbours living identical lives.
Why is the pull of this cookie-cutter picture so strong, when life teaches us that it hardly ever works out that way? Yes, it is a comforting picture, but just look around you: How many people do you really know who live that life? Kismet is always dishing out challenges, smashing our illusion of being in control. On the dark side of the path there is illness, divorce, fertility issues, death, crime, financial woes (also Eskom), and on the light side love, support, good fortune, health, success,…
