The Circle

Heels as thick as bricks. Are they back?

What does the proverb, what goes around comes around mean? It  means life is a circle. Examples? Fashion and phones.

Recently, I saw one of @mkbhd product reviews on YouTube. It was about phones that fold and phones that flip. We are like kids, once we see a new shiny toy, we throw the old one away. Did you have a flip phone? What happened to it? Most of them ended up in a box in the attic or basement. Maybe you donated it to second hand stores like Salvation Army or Goodwill. No, you can’t go back and search for it because they probably melted all flip phones, when the world went android.

What was old school is now new school, and doesn’t come cheap. Old flip phones were a director’s delight. Movies had men of power flipping that phone in a half second, issue some warning then close like that. Like how? Very theatrical, talk about drama. It was like a calling card. Phone equals power,  because few people had phones back then.

What goes around comes around is basically a circle like the sun and moon. That’s why development is not new. It is along nature’s path. A child is born, grows up, gets old and dies. Even lions cannot stop the music. Development does not manufacture anything exclusive. It mines platinum, gold, diamonds etc. to rehash and recycle the circle. Development replaced brown paper bags with plastic bags. Plastic messed up the environment. Birds and sharks swallowed it. We are back to square one, using paper bags for groceries.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.