I was in my early twenties when a man made me quit my job and life in London to live in Trinidad with him (we knew each other and had dated for a while when we both lived in Florida, USA). At the time South Africans needed visas for Trinidad (we no longer do) and he organized all that, so I thought this is real and I trusted him.
So I spent the weekend binge watching Lovecraft Country...and I love it.
The one thing I notice in that show is how White people are fearless about the use of magic and Black people are scared of it and think it's evil, that is basically my experience of things.
Some men will say they are bewitched and go and slaughter a village of cows asking for help from their ancestors, meanwhile it's because of how they have treated their kids.
There is no shame in being poor and finding yourself spending money on crazy things
Listen!
Poverty is freaking draining. Not having money for months is depressing AF!
I recently told a friend that in addition to spending most of the pandemic catching sunsets and sitting on my balcony eating or sipping peppermint tea, I now spend a lot of my evenings watching birds and observing their behavior and letting my mind wander.
I'm sometimes asked a puzzling question by the South African media - how can people know that they have an issue with money?
The assumption is that people don't know they’re struggling financially.
