Dear 2022,
Your entire timeline has been a watershed moment for this family, both literally and
figuratively. It is certainly due to the former that we could grasp and appreciate the latter.
As a family we had just come out of our “teething phase” experienced in the early months of your
predecessor. Having three young ones in this family we “knew” that it would be smooth sailing for a
while, barring the extreme unexpected moments. Guess what you did, you were like: “here are
some terrible twos with an extra serving of unexpected in the extreme.”
So, what was a man to do? What was the proverbial sheep to do? Nku e llile on your timeline and
the sky did not fall. At the time it did not seem so, in that moment the sky was falling, the tunnel was
closing in and thus the light at the end was having an Eskom moment.
If you are a proud man/woman, husband/wife and father/mother who knows only to “support” and
not how to “lean on”, this moment becomes unbearable. That excruciating but liberating pain of
letting go and learning to lean on the ones meant to lean on you became our watershed moment.
The moment when you can trust your young children with mature content that says your parent is not all that strong.
So, morning came and the sky was in place and it was stage 0 and the light was flickering but was
there. So, you have opened our eyes to the fact that Nku e ka lla and that the sky will still be there.
Nku e ka lla and we will still be a family. Nku e ka lla and we’ll still respect each other.
In conclusion 2022, you have taught us that we need to learn to “lean on” as much as we support
those that are nearest and dearest to us.
Khotso!
Litloholo tsa Bataung ba Ramokhele!
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