The rat race! :: Mmegi Online

We are sitting at the Nitty Gritty, as is our wont, in our favourable haunt, drinking our drinkables. Generally minding our own business, except for Walkie, whose general business it is to mind everybody’s business, but her own. She has just started her favourite topic lamenting, (but secretly relishing, I think) the state of marriages in Gaborone. She says: “The idea of a good marriage based on love and trust died with our grandparents.”

“It’s the rat races, that is why marriages don’t last anymore. Every rat wants to get married because every other rat is in the race. So you get all these rats running in one direction and nobody knows, least of all themselves, where they are going and when they are going to get there,” explains Nikita in his usual graphic and forthright manner. “In the end everyone is just a rat waiting for another race.”

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