Student life

November 27, 2008 by imakando musho ·
Filed under: How Zimbabwe can be better, Inspire & motivate, Zimbabwean diaries

The sun sets so beautifully into the horizon. The ordinary person marvels at the wonder of the glory of God, yet to the student who is at a university that is about to close its doors, who slept on an empty stomach yesterday, the setting of the sun does not signify anything. All he askes is a simple innocent question, ‘Is God mverled at my pain?’

This year I am certainly praising God for making me able to pay US$2500 for my college tuition which with current situation that our country is in is a fortune. As I praise God I know there is someone who is cursing the blessing of the burning syndrome that made his poor parents afford to send him to one of Zimbabwe’s most expensive universities. Why shouldn’t he, when his school fees drained everything from their coofers that all they could manage to give their son for school was a little forex which today seems to be also affected by the sporadic runaway inflation that has brougth our country down?

Surely what then does the beautiful setting of the sun signify?

The university trying to keep up with international standards, givesfree internet access to its students and he tries to take advantage of such a situation by emailing home and the ’satisfactory’ answer that he gets is that those that are at home are also suffering from the same situation. Oh my God, tell that to a hungry student!

I will tell you about Jabes(not his real name) who in the few months that I have known him he has turned into a dreaded thief, a drug addict, violent and withdrawn. Deep inside him I know there is a cultured young man whose morals and zeal for life have been eroded by poverty.

Then there is Theresa (not her real name) who has bedded a lot of guys on and off campus to so that she can afford some Batswana groceries. Ask her and she will carelessly tell you that she is better than other girls at state universities who bed people for a mere packet of maputi. You wonder where all this came from when only yesterday she was jealously guarding her faith.

Tell me, what is our world turning into? What has become of our young men and women who instead of going to university to be cultured into responsible citizens are actually going in the opposite direction? If this poverty was only destroying the economy then it would have been acceptable but because it is killing off the morals of the future, it is highly unacceptable.

Zimbabweans where are you? Stand up! Do something abuot your country. Arise! wherever you are let prayer resound in your heart and your actions because prayer is the only way we can begin to see change. Unity of purpose as the bible advises in 1John is what our dear good country desperately needs.

When everything is done and fine and foward we are moving, then can you comfortably send your children to college to produce young powerful executives instead of AIDS ridden drug addicts that our universities seem to be producing these days.

As the student looks deeply at the sun he sees a beauty that he hadn’t seen before. He realises the hope that is there for him. It has a new significance. God is telling him to be still and know that he is God but before his blessing can come, he has to endure some excrutiating pain. True that, his friends shake him out of his dream state and tell him ‘devastating’ news; the school wants a topup on his school fees so that it can continue to run. How bad can it get?

Tell the world: