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AFRIKAN ARTS

WEIGHTLESSNESS

LIVING LIGHT IN A WORLD OF MUCH HEAVINESS

Samuel Phillips

ometimes I try to make my complex world system that we have people, the weight of drug abuse,
articles very "deep" and created and which is choking us by and the chase after the ever elusive
full of new thoughts and the day. happiness, the quest for someone to
Sinsights, but somehow also, love and appreciate us. The weights
I realized that reiterating what has Lots of people get carried away of running around like batteries
been said or written before also with the issue of wanting to lose powering this world system of
goes a long way to keep ideas and body weight, to the point where futility and the chase after the wind
thoughts fresh in the mind. Msingi they get even weightier because of of vanity. These are deadlier weights
Afrika Magazine is not just about the emotional madness that they that we don’t often pay attention to,
trying to create and share concepts, end up getting into. Don’t get me but which are the very foundation
solutions, ideas, innovations and wrong, it’s good to pound the metal of why we are never satisfied, why
thoughts from various authors, in the gym, do your morning runs we get fat and then need the gym to
but about simply giving people, and all to maintain a healthy body get healthy. It's a world of heaviness
especially Afrikans mirrors of their that is both sleek, admired and most that we have created and it's getting
own minds to look at so that, just importantly, healthy. But like every heavier except we learn how to cast
maybe they can see that almost all other thing that man keeps missing, our burdens from off our shoulders,
that they cry and wail for has always the real weights that we all deal with see life from a simpler perspective,
been within their reach. And to help are often left unresolved. They are learn to love a little more and also
them see that they don't get, either the weights that no one else sees. accept love a little more.
because they have not paid attention They are the weights of emotional
to, or noticed it, or their minds instability, sexually abusive rela- It’s no longer news that the global
are too complex to appreciate the tionships, the weight called debt, pandemic has forced each one of us
power of simplicity, especially in this the weight of wanting to please out of our comfort zones, thrown

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