The Bright Side
Sadly, we pride ourselves as a fun loving people. Yet we envy and yearn for the achievements and accomplishments of more serious minded and industrious peoples.
Carnival, feteing to the max (pun intended) and party are high on our list of priorities. According to today’s Trinidad Guardian, already in June 2009, we have begun to discuss and plan carnival 2010.
Carnival is great. It remains rooted in my psyche. Who would not like to party?
Sadly, we pride ourselves as a fun loving people. Yet we envy and yearn for the achievements and accomplishments of more serious minded and industrious peoples.
Carnival, feteing to the max (pun intended) and party are high on our list of priorities. According to today’s Trinidad Guardian, already in June 2009, we have begun to discuss and plan carnival 2010.
Carnival is great. It remains rooted in my psyche. Who would not like to party?
Merriment and party are like opiates. They give us a false sense of well being and euphoria. However, like most opiates, they can create severe memory lapses.
We love party so much that we put PARTY before country.
This year the calypsonian Bally in his calypso “No, No Amigo”, confessed that he is “PNM ‘til ah dead.” His confessions continued as he sang that he is running into a conflict between his mouth (as a social commentator) and his balisier (his PARTY symbol). However, he prepared to forgive the long litany of woes and complaints that he voices and stick with the PARTY.
Bally and his fanatic PNMites are not alone. Inspired and driven by misplaced allegiances, the members of the other PARTIES, though not as vocal in popular music, are similarly misguided.
Until we learn to get our priorities straight, we are condemned to continue on the path of destruction on which we merrily travel, all the time partying to the max.
Think!
Carnival, fete, party and PARTY first?
THINGS CAN CHANGE
We love party so much that we put PARTY before country.
This year the calypsonian Bally in his calypso “No, No Amigo”, confessed that he is “PNM ‘til ah dead.” His confessions continued as he sang that he is running into a conflict between his mouth (as a social commentator) and his balisier (his PARTY symbol). However, he prepared to forgive the long litany of woes and complaints that he voices and stick with the PARTY.
Bally and his fanatic PNMites are not alone. Inspired and driven by misplaced allegiances, the members of the other PARTIES, though not as vocal in popular music, are similarly misguided.
Until we learn to get our priorities straight, we are condemned to continue on the path of destruction on which we merrily travel, all the time partying to the max.
Think!
Carnival, fete, party and PARTY first?
THINGS CAN CHANGE
Make a change!
PUT COUNTRY FIRST, Trinidad & Tobago People.
PARTY can come after we fix this mess.
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