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SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c
Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair?
Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform.
SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam
Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r
Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p
SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha
Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in
Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a
SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for
Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont
Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf

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HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS - | 2013-07-30

Intellectual Conversation

There are days I crave for intellectual conversation.

Where my mind manufactures lengthy words,

in the hope that somebody understands it.

I get this powerful sensation,

an adrenalin rush to my brain.

As I interpret lengthy words, I start to feel sane.

I don’t have a gifted IQ,

nor a dictionary engraved in my grey matter,

I too am almost like you.

The basic words, the basic understanding,

but my mind is a little more demanding.

Words like belligerent and narcissist

give my grey matter so much happiness.

I want to speak with someone with no hesitation,

not thinking to myself, ‘do they even understand this?’

My mind likes to decipher the complex

and disregard the simple.

When it comes to intellectual conversations,

my mouth is the portal

through which my brain emits words with many syllables.

The days I lack intellectual conversation, are the worst.

I feel like a drug addict having withdrawal symptoms.

Helpless, robbed, craving,

my mind, it is starving.

Staring at a dictionary, reciting the words,

‘Please speak to me!’

Would you talk to me?

Would you fear you’re not being intellectually capable of conversing with me?

You probably regard this as utter insanity!

Well, I’m sorry.

Notice the empathy I carry in my last three lines.

I can be sympathetic with the human race a couple of times!

I may allow poor grammar and bad sentence structure to slide,

but I sometimes wish all human beings could adapt to me.

For this is something I take pride in.

Intellectual conversation is vitally important to me.

It’s somewhat of a treatment against insanity.

It’s the type of medicine I need to take daily.

Tanya Namases is 17 years old and is a pupil at Oranjemund Private School. She hopes to become a top notch, well recognised lawyer as well as an advocate for women and against child abuse. She enjoys creative writing. Her dream is to make the world a better place, but her goal is to start in Namibia by alleviating poverty, racial discrimination and abuse.