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Zimbini Jidana

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

With this beautiful short story the author captures our minds and takes our breaths with her characters as we also live through them. 

Jidana Zimbini identifies as An African Creative, thats her brand. As  creative in a tech space she finds her world in literature. She is a System Engineer and a Business Analyst  but refuses to be contianed by codes and numbers, she lives through words, through paintings, sketches and poetry.

In the creative space she is a an Artist, a Photographer and a Free Lance writer.

For her: reading and understanding is not enough, she wants her readers to experience literature,to live through the pages just as she does.

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Zimbini Jidana

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....Finding me

This short story is first dedicated to myself. It is important to me that I celebrate the little achievements I have in my life. This book will always be part of my biggest achievements and highlights for 2019/2020. It gives me joy to see it finished and ready to be seen by the world. Secondly, it is dedicated to my dearest parents , Nompiliso F Batisi & Bonisile E Jidana , to my wonderful sister Anelisa Jidana and my dear cousin Thumeka Mntwaphe. My family and friends have always supported my creative works, encouraged me to be more and to do more. I believe this is why I have been able to write and apply myself in other fields with confidence and faith in myself. With such a wonderful support, one is bound to fly high up in the sky.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

One

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I’m up!

When I look outside my small window, I can see the sun is smiling down on us today; she is in a good mood, blessing nature with all her warmth; the birds and crickets are all grateful, they are singing their hearts out. It really must be a beautiful morning.

It would really be a beautiful day if I was going to experience it and not go through it just like I do with all other days. Instead today is one of those mornings where I just want to lay in my bed wondering all day if life is worth living. I wouldn’t consider killing myself though; maybe I could just give up and be a nobody. Only if I had a choice, but I don’t have a choice because my life doesn’t really belong to me, it belongs to all these other people that love me. So each day no matter how hard it is to wake up and show up, I have to.

I lay there on my bed for 20 more minutes trying to think about what I want to wear; it shouldn’t be too bright or too dark either. I should look like how I look on the other days even though I really want to look like how I feel. I really envy those people who are brave enough to dress like they feel. It’s not that I am not brave too, I just don’t want to be asked questions; “Ohw what’s with the dark clothes, are you okay”. Yes I am okay and I am not in mourning!

I decide on blue jeans, a white t-shirt, a cap and my favorite white converse. I can never go wrong by being simple.

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Good, I get up and tune in my ‘Get-up’ playlist, I have a lot of playlists for every mood and I think I am one of the few people who still create playlists on their phones.

My phone rings just as I finish my breakfast, “Hey, how are you feeling today?”- Leah.

I force a smile as if she can see me “Hey Leah, I’m good, just getting ready for class, and you, how are you?”

“Mel! What is wrong? Last night you didn’t look okay and you just left without saying anything to us. Kera and I were worried about you”- Leah.

“I am fine, I was just feeling sick, see you soon I have to go now”, I hang up before she can say anything, the truth is that I just got overwhelmed and I had to get out of there, I have a lot on my mind and I don’t feel like talking to them about it.

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On most afternoons after class we all meet up for afternoon walks to study, actually studying with your friends is the worst; you spend 70% of the time fooling around. I say this all the time but it changes nothing because we get things done, it just takes longer.

Things are not going to be the same from next week since we are starting Paleoanthropology practicals which is the study of human origins and evolution, students typically take this course near or at the beginning of an Archaeology program, we are taking it in our second year and they are divided into morning and afternoon sessions.

Kera and I, the lazy ones in the group actually chose afternoon sessions because there is just no way I am waking up early in the morning for anything when I have a choice; my life is not that boring. Leah and Jay take the morning session because they are morning people of course, the kind that actually mean it when they say “Good morning”.

“Did you know that they found the ancient scribes that were lost in the dark ages or is it during the Exodus? I am not sure if that’s not the same thing” – Jay says this out of the blue just as we approach our spot on campus, it’s like he had been thinking for long and then got the urge to finally say it.

“I heard, but they can’t do anything with them anyway now because Christians would never stand for it”, I say.