A LETTER TO A FRIEND; P3
Dear Zaki,
I was thinking how to start this letter, suddenly a friend phoned me who started with the words “ Shake my hand with all your ten fingers” so I thought I could ask you to unbend the ‘bakitoh’ fingers and shake your hands with people using your ten fingers. In my mind, I could hear the echoes furiously “Wipe it off! Wipe it off!”-I mean the dust.
Now Zaki, you will agree that your silence since your departure is just a minus to the many contributions to the ‘tesitos.’ Therefore, I call you back with a spirit of brotherhood. I know it might look hard, if not impossible to accept responsibility for those sharp cuts on peoples’ blood veins and throats, but remember it is still your utterance, no matter how Maxwell, Kenneth and Robert provoked you. I understand your frustration, though quick to caution you that the future holds more and better. It is therefore your temper that you should learn to cool down when dealing with temperamental friends whom you very well know are inciting harshness to get your true colors-and you vindicated them by your explosion. Now that you are either exiled or choose to self-exile, I thought I should not be a Judah, rather to still climb that tree to see you walking far with your dreams of being a practitioner at judgments. I once informed you, I will be at the farm then, and will never stop looking after the cows in the meadows.
Here is to you Zaki what you can do:
Learn to take time-offs when your friends criticize you
Don’t use any insolent language except if one uses it on you.
Make your points heard over and over, and don’t personalize things that far.
Everyone with a different opinion from you is not your enemy.
Finally, I look forward to your reconciliation with people of the city when we shall continue on the assignment of ‘togetherness.’ Sorry for my delayed letter, I just thought I could drop you these few lines from my heart. Even Troy, critic of grammar misses you now. With my smile, I say good night.
Yours Ever,
Aba.
A LETTER TO A FRIEND; P4
Hi Robert,
I enjoyed your companionship over the years gone. I truly understand your rage and frustration time and again, especially when actions of different people belonging to tribes comes into play. But your slogan “tribe this, tribe that” is truly boring. It only helps to reveal your admiration jealousy for these tribes, not withstanding any superior fantasy that might have been exercised by individuals’ stocked on tribal fantasies. It even becomes more complex from you that your only life-long philosophy is just that-‘tribalism.’ Your microscope is too petty with it. Too complex!
Now to you Robert, please take a note of the following:
We all belong to tribes, and are proud to associate with them, nonetheless recognize the values of co-existence.
Your differences with certain heads doesn’t interpret “tribalism”, rather it is your mind-planted notion.
In your provocations of Zaki or Troy, I appreciate you playing the ball next time, and not fouling them with tribal shots.
I hope you don’t mind me sharing my feelings? Meanwhile, accept my appreciation for your renowned patriotism in practical efforts over the time past. I write to you because you are worth my salt.
Yours Ever,
Aba.
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