Sour Grapes...

Greetings to everyone who believes in love, and expects to find or be found by love. It has been a very interesting season in my neck of the woods... I stay in Ghana, and I have had quite a lot of issues going on in my head. I didn't have the inspiration to put those thoughts together on paper, so I waited. Finally, this morning it hit me, so I am breaking my silence on the issue of the "accident of birth" and the price people pay sometimes for being born to a certain family belonging to a certain ethnic group, nationality,  faith or political ideology.

This morning, a young man called me and informed of his decision to divorce his wife because they belonged to different political parties... By the way, in Ghana, you have two leading political parties, namely; the NDC (National Democratic Convention, which is the present ruling party and the party which was declared as winner of the 2012 presidential elections by the Ghana Electoral Commission); and the NPP (New Patriotic Party, which for now is not satisfied with the declaration of the EC, believing that there were irregularities in some quarters and is desirous of going to court to context the declaration of the NDC as winner).

So this young man from the NDC calls me to say that the misunderstanding he had with his wife who is of the NPP has reached a point where their relationship as far as he is concerned has broken down irretrievably, and he desires to move on with his life, without her... Without her? Is it worth it? Is throwing love away out of loyalty to an ideology worth it?

Much worse, is when people quarrel, tear themselves apart and ultimately make decisions which will have generational consequences, because they disagreed over an opinion or an ideology.

People have been denied the opportunity to love and be together forever, because their parents or relations had issues way back before they were born. Why should anyone make someone else suffer for issues he/she didn't have to play a role in.

Hatred and bitterness expressed through stereotypes become the new theories we propound, just in order to impose our interest and hardheadedness on innocent young people whose heart have bonded together in love. They suffer for a sin they didn't commit, and carry a burden they didn't create, all because they were born in a certain home, to a certain couple who had certain viewpoints about life and living...

I ask again, is it worth it? The thing we destroy in order to have our way especially in the lives of other people, who we claim that we love... Is it worth it? Why should the teeth of the children be set on edge, when it wasn't they that ate the sour grapes?

Tell a friend to tell a friend, that living for love and in love, is a better way of living...

Blessings and more

SHALOM