I spent an hour walking merrily around Uppsala this evening, not because i wanted to but because i got to church one hour early due to my failure to turn my watch back one hour.
While walking and playing Jay Sean on my ipod i thought to myself how free i was to be able to dance in the street and sing alone at 6.15 or rather 5.15. In South Africa as soon as the sun starts setting you start running. You attain the gift of moving your head round 360 degrees in search of any predators while your bag is clutched tightly beneath your arm. So this evening as i walked along the river dancing i felt what real freedom was and wanted to feel it in all aspects of my life. Freedom comes in various forms and i think freedom of expression tops them all. However we tend to limit ourselves before the world does and stop ourselves from doing what we want, from doing what makes us happy, from living because we fear what the world may think and conceive about us. I have a lot to say so i can't talk about one thing so i'll talk about everything, everything i am which is encapsulated in my being Black and in my being African. My thoughts, experiences and my journey in attempting to fulfil my life with a deeper and greater sense of negritude, with the values of Ubuntu.
