ARE YOU IN SOME SORT OF ENTANGLEMENT?

 ARE YOU IN SOME SORT OF ENTANGLEMENT?

Careful with those entangled situationships you Afropeans love binding yourselves into, as you might choke on those lust chords. The last time I got caught up in a web of entanglement, I needed the services of a shaman to free me out of the bind I had put myself into. Turns out that the negro had done a number on me and solidified it with a love spell. Either way, I learnt hard way not to romanticize twisted affairs anymore, for they are snares to keep one emotionally trapped in a hopeless predicament . From then on, I have been on the straight and narrow path, a crusader re-born and equipped with the good news of freedom, the message of peace, but mostly with a heightened common sense.

You see, gone are the days where humanity valued traditional relationships, for they were deemed to be cold and boring. Nowadays, many prefer their relations to be fiery hot, open, and extremely complicated. Infact, the more complex they are, the more salacious they become. People are drawn more to dramatic affairs than to routine relations. Consequently, more therapists, pastors, and priests are needed in our society, if only to engage in damage control. I bet you that even they are almost always caught up in these vile emotional webs, for they are also human and thus prone to such enmeshments.

I tell you that this life is tough though for everyone. Moreover, there is a limit to what your heart can take. Actually, your heart can take any form of entanglement, when in your twenties but after that, you are just fishing for a heart failure. Just because the television has glorified a skewed kind of romance, does not mean that you go out to imbibe it full hundred. Do you not know that media is in business with you? I mean sure, the gold looks shiny and lustrous but it does not make it edible.

Some of us Afropeans are notorious for being copy cats, absorbing anything and everything, whether good or bad. First, we dreamt of being Cinderellas and Prince Charmings, knowing fully well that those characters only exist in fairy tales for which we do not believe in. Today, we want to be lovers of liberty, who embrace the freedom of choice to be scandalous.

Where are those moral values taught to us by our kin about love, duty, commitment, and loyalty? Do you know that one is solid, two is a tangle, three is an entrapment, four is an orgy, and five is a disaster waiting to happen? Even the devil knows not to get jumbled with a man who is disloyal and unstable, because he knows that humans will betray him, if he does not go ahead and do it first.

Our ancestors are turning in their graves, while they watch us embroiled deep in open-ended polyamorous relationships. If shock does not kill them a second time, then shame will. But who cares, as long as we are not infringing upon the rights of other human beings? Perhaps our children will care very much to see us in polyamorous liaisons. Maybe our kids will adopt the entrapments as their new normal.

I was unfortunate enough to watch a reality television show about four sister wives living in the same house with their oblivious husband. Sure, they were portrayed as the perfect polygamous alliance there was ever known to man but we all do know that behind the lights, camera, action is a totally different story. No sane woman would want to share her husband with another woman and/or vice versa.

Nonetheless, the reality of the show was a money grab and nothing more. I know that you modern Afropeans will remind me of the polygamous Africa, of which I will reply and tell you that greed and power is a result of such juggle-type connections, for they breed nothing but jealousy and hate.

Even King Solomon in all his glory, would confirm to us all that polygamy makes for strange bed fellows. At this juncture, I feel it best to call on the Lord but I believe that even He would not want to be entangled in our dirty affairs. So, we best clean up before He can show up and show out in our lives.