It nauseates the children of the rich to see us taking Bonga and Hiace buses for transport. For them, they say they delay to take off but they fail to realize that our destination and activity to do in where they are rushing to are the same. A few of them whose mothers are unfaithful, resulting in their children being indirectly punished to study here, are sharing classes with us and they be like they are hurrying to catch up on lessons when our timetable for lectures is the same.
They take boda-bodas and Noah buses not because they are their equivalents but because they are only VIP means of transport, should it happen that there were jets for transport they would be happier to use them easily. Their allergy is not confined only to Bonga buses and Hiace buses but also are allergic to restaurants we take lunch in, tea places we refresh in, narrow roads we use, and the dirty bank notes we carry, combined. Initially, we had wanted to walk together, but we later suffered from being left uninformed, which resulted to an unintended grouping of those who left without informing and those being left uninformed. Now, the children of the rich walk together and so do the children of the poor, this is how the grouping came about.
We have been citing long time riddles and stories so as to remind and make them learn that mixing with the products of the poor is an “uncontagious” disease that does not infect but rather it is a disease that adds flavors to their histories. Indeed, they have never heard of how heavier, odd and colorful the histories of the rich who stay mixed with the poor, simply because, as the poor get aided along, they pay back nothing other than asking God, the Almighty, to unease blessing the rich to prosper for life.
Apart from us wanting to share the things they have, we also have a concern that most of them have become accident-prone because they comply not with the traffic rule “don’t rush, you will crush”. Every time they rush, two or three of them get accident and it is our collective concern to talk to them in order to minimize using bodabodas and Noah buses because injuries they encounter deprive us of the little money, we lap up from them as they use it for medications.
As sourceless as our today’s wealth, the children of the rich should be generous for only one thing; to neutralize the curses that follow their fathers’ or mothers’ ill-gotten wealth. That blessing that comes from their generosity overwhelms the curse of their fathers coming from the owners of the resources they grasp by force. It should be noted with a belief that, curses are blind because they do not differentiate the ones who invite them from their products, that is why a father’s curse is also the children’s.
Because of that, the children of the rich must leave their pockets unsewn at the bottom so that some money falls down for the poor to survive on, and as it happens so, they can be branded to have arrested their fathers’ curses from transiting to them. If they think I am lying, then let them wait and see the tragedy. People say the world is rotational, but they do not actually mean the real world, they mean wealth or power. Wealth is movable and as it is, both the rich and the poor should work in synergy in that if wealth escapes from the rich to the poor, the rich can always find a place for refuge.
The author is a medical student, University of Juba.