Knowledge is evaporable, but its evaporability differs from one person to another. It can also be measured by what comes out of one’s mouth and how one decides. As a young knowledge receiver, you are like a child who asks, talks and interferes in issues that do not concern him/her to make sure when you get settled, I mean to get enough knowledge, you talk as if you have pursued all the courses in education.
To me and my co-opinion writers, we always suffer from being told to write on specific topics, and any failure to do that, our security is in our own hands. Am I being secured? If yes, as the statement justifies, why was I robbed by Toronto boys and no personnel appeared to help me? This is a total confinement of our knowledge on educating the public on different topics of great importance to South Sudanese.
We risk ourselves to write more when told like that, not because we want to die but because if one person, amongst millions of South Sudanese, calls to direct us on what to do, then what we are doing is not wrong. If 1% out of 100% is unhappy for nothing other than jealousy, then almost 100% is happy, which to us, is not a big thing to worry about.
Furthermore, if you are called for directives once or twice a year, then we are almost perfect in our practice, but to omit the word ‘almost’ so that we are completely perfect in our writing, we need to be left alone so that it is us to feel shy why we always write touching articles and are not responded to with threats. There is what triggers our leaping from one topic to another, sometimes it abruptly comes in the middle of an almost finishing article and forces us to write it first before we finish the one it finds us in.
This is a situation! A situation forces one to do what he/she swore by God not to do, and because God knows something forces you to do it, He forgives you on spot. It is also in football, when a ball is forcefully kicked to your hand, the referee considers it not intentionally touched, but conditionally touched.
When you open your tower window and look down to see how South Sudanese are struggling to earn a living, you get that roughly 35% await official passers-by to ask them for money and another 35% doing donkey work just to buy 2 sandwiches for children. These 3 communities, beggars, official passers-by being begged and donkey workers, need consolation so that beggars do not rely on begging alone or lose hope and think about suicidal thoughts, official passers-by take God’s heart to share that little thing they have and do not fade up, and donkey-workers continue working knowing that one day, their stars would shine brightly more than they expect them to shine.
Who consoles these communities? It is us. We write on different topics expecting that one, two, or three topics will match with the situation of somebody down there and will get healed. Sometimes we fictionalize things and provide solutions just to make sure they match with the situation of our suffering citizens to persevere. We use to tell them that however long the night is, there is always the dawn, so that everybody goes out to look for survival. I beg, confine our knowledge not. Allow us to nourish South Sudanese with words.
The author is a medical student, University of Juba.