Beware of the Ides of January

"Why", you ask? It might be your payday today, and you might just be a victim of crime because that would mean you are one of the most richest people in South Africa, just by having a few thousand rands in your bank account. Are you still confused? You see, every year, during the month of December, South Africans drink and eat their salaries and yearly savings. All in a few days. Come January, everybody is broke. The 15th of January seems like the summit of poverty. It is the mid of the month. The month drags very long. Schools reopen. And children do not have school uniform or shoes. Children are hungry, but they go to school, in case the school offers that free lunch that the government provides. But how will they go. There is no taxi fare. There is no bus fare. When will the people in our country wake up and realise that there is always a January after a December. Maybe we should not teach our children about JF MAM JJASOND. We should teach them circles only. No beginning, no end. That way, we will not think that December is the end, but just another month. Maybe I'm just jealous. Jealous that I spent each day of December, except for the official holidays, slaving away in my office. So I did not get the time to spend. On the 23th and 24th Dec, I took time to drive to the mall at around 7 in the evening...eh...there was no parking, so I rushed home and spent not a cent. If the law allowed me to, I would be a Mashonisa(very expensive microlender). With my mere annual saving of R5000, I would give out 25 loans of R200 each. I would charge 100% interest per 2 weeks. At the end of January, I would have myself R10000. Wow....that would be a lot of money. But then some people might not even pay me back. So I will not take the risk of a heartache. I will continue though, to preach and make noise to all, that we should stop spending too much money on booze and food. It all makes us fat. Then we want to lose it all in January. How simple are we?