Saturday, January 27, 2007

dem days

Back in the days when we used to wear back cloth, some nothing and others leaves....
when there was no blogging, only collecting firewood, fetching water(....ok i for one i wouldn't have done this because of my royal blood), wrestling...listening to poems i bet they clould beat www.africansunrise.blogspot.com .......
and of course parents used to choose their daughters' husbands for them. Qualities they wanted in a man were simple. only the strong were choosen and i mean strong in all ways possible. They knew externals played a minor role — if any — in creating a healthy family.
I’m not suggesting a return to those days (and am not saying its a bad idea) — they had problems of their own — but we can borrow a principle from them: if a woman is paired with an upstanding man, love will have a chance to grow. Why should women look for men of outstanding integrity and pray for God to make the soil fertile for love to grow? And why cant women stop the "Oh, we're just friends; we've never thought of dating; we're not romantic.” Why do they often overlook us in the “just friends” category?
If this should remain the case, then am suggesting we borrow a leaf from dem days.

4 comments:

Iwaya said...

this is one of the shortest posts of coming back i have ever read. i'm not happy or satisfied. i want more!

~ScotchBiscuits~ said...

hmmmm....

Rae said...

True...

crys said...

wel, it's better than the parents wanting u as just a friend, that way there's no chance of winning her heart in dem days. sometimes, u ARE just friends. sometimes, God can actually do miracles better than parents can match-make. but then again sometimes, the love never grew, dem days. sometimes dem days it was a form of female enslavement, using them to get dowry, n get rich, etc. but then again sometimes, the love actually did grow! hmmm...
any way, so who's giving u that vibe of you're just friends, no romance? who's putting u down like that? (i wish blogs had smileys).