We try to smile and greet our
neighbours when we encounter them. We make chit chat and
even befriend some of them.
Mostly however, we keep to ourselves and
act in a way that will not offend or disturb the neighbours.
But there are those amongst us who act like
we own the entire complex. We play our music very loudly
whenever we choose to, we have drunken parties where we
scream and shout, whether in joy or anger, at all hours
of the day and night, and we don’t care about littering
the complex.
We turn doing the laundry into a drinking session and we
leave our litter there too.
The pool is just another one of the party venues that we
own and the gym is our private facility to be enjoyed by
our huge circle of friends and associates.
Needless to say, because of the behaviour
of the last group, this complex is fast developing a reputation
as being undesirable.
Most us work during the day, and we try
our best to arrange supervision for our children when they
are home and we are not, by making use of the in-house crèche
and day care facilities.
But others feel that this is just another
way for the body corporate to milk them, and that their
kids are quite capable of looking after themselves.
It is unavoidable that the kids mix during
the day and over weekends, and in the process the next generation
is developing amid conflicting influences.
This complex is a perfect mini replica of
the world we live in.
In order to develop a better nation we need
an education system in one language that we all understand
or learn.
Then, we need to introduce a compulsory subject as part
of the curriculum, from grade one to grade twelve.
This subject is called humanity, and it covers areas such
as mutual respect, humility, compassion, love, self-esteem
and interaction and relationships with fellow human beings.
If we introduce this system
in grade one, and, annually and consecutively in each grade
as this class progresses, in twelve years time, we will
have the foundation for a better nation.
A foundation of young, intelligent, compassionate,
confident, humble, respectful, loving and powerful individuals.
