Water Babies

Bathing little babies is fun for them and adults. Happiness overload until you lift them up to wrap them in a towel. War. They holler and flay their arms. Too bad! They must realize very early in life that all good things come to an end.

They meet water again when they grow up and walk back home from school with their friends. They meet nature on the way and it rains. You won’t believe the jumping and rain dancing. Not all kids are this lucky. Teenagers in countries that determine the price of tea, when they don’t have a single tea plantation, demand cars from parents as soon as they get the driver’s licence.

Their precious feet seldom touched the ground. They are used to motorized walking. Parents took them out for fresh air in their strollers or prams in the case of British upper class kids. When they were older, parents pulled them around in wagons. The best part was the shopping mall, where parents rented little wagons that look like frogs.

Time for school and they board the school bus or parents drop them off. The next logical motorized walking, is their first car. This seals their fate. They’ll never know the joy of being caught in the rain, like those ‘poor’ kids that walk to school and auntie’s place.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.