They say sharing is caring. I say, sharing is more than caring, especially if you share my blog with your friends. Sharing is educating, coz that’s what I aim to do through my writing. Writing is useless when it doesn’t teach, that’s what TJ Dema (a Motswana poet from Botswana you should definitely check out) says in one of her poems.

So, I don’t want my writing to be useless. Who wants to write useless stuff? Do you know how it feels to have your inventions deemed useless? I mean what do people even do with things that they find useless for their intended purpose?

Let’s take books, for instance, what do people do with books when they find them useless. I know of a guy in my Grade 10 class whose father used to roll a tobacco ‘zol’ with pages from his school exercise books. Some people even start fires using books. And here’s what you might find hard to believe, I’ll tell you anyways, there are people out there who tear pages from their books to go to the bathroom. Yes, it’s a sad reality.

When I was in secondary school, our Social Sciences teacher was a very strict teacher, who seemed to find pleasure in drilling whoever she could lay her hands on. For instance, if you wanted to go to the girls’ room, you had to ask for a toilet paper from her, and she’d ask you what you’re going to do with it. Can you imagine that, right in front of the class, you have to explain what you are going to do with it? Isn’t that, obvious?

To escape this embarrassment, one of our classmates, John, used to tear pages from his books and go relieve himself. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the fate of useless things.

I’m thinking right now of the person who dedicated his time and energy and created the book with the purpose that it should be written on or it should, at least, be read. I’m thinking of his disappointment when he sees that his initial purpose for the product has been deemed useless. I pity him even, but I don’t want to be him. (That’s the thing with pity, when people pity you, they won’t offer you to trade places).

I don’t want my writings to be useless. I don’t want my blog to be useless. So SHARE me. SHARE me with your friends. SHARE me with your colleagues. SHARE me with your family. Just SHARE me…

I mean, just what is a writer if there are no readers?

ZZ xxx

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