Pleasure-seeking

What brings you pleasure or rather what should bring you pleasure?

Many vibrant youths of mostly urbanized areas like Jo'burg City have what I call the disillusioned desire for pleasure. They call it hedonism but I refer to it as ignorance.

Sure, happiness and euphoria, that mostly comes from the drugs and alcohol, and money are everything everyone so passionately seek but what about the bigger things in life? What about the economic freedom and mental liberation? What about the glory of success that comes with education? What about emancipation, the sweet sweet emancipation that Marley spoke about decades ago?

Remember the days?

Remember the days
when life was an exiting anecdote
and not a feared reality;
the days when people were just people
and not demons in life forms;
the days when love was natural and
a beautiful element not a strategic game or
a sold misconception.

Remember the days
when people weren't just in love with love,
but actually in love with each other;