Great advice from stroke survivor – wear world like a loose cloak

Got some wonderful advice last night from a friend of a friend.

My pal from Maritzburg is up in the Big Smoke to visit his friend who is recovering from a massive stroke. So severe was the attack it required a ten day induced coma. He was really lucky – the coma would have been permanent had he been at home instead of sipping a glass of wine in a hotel lobby.

Advice from the survivor – if you have a headache for two weeks and blood in your stool, get to a doctor. And as a general principle, stop taking life so seriously. Wear the world like a loose cloak because you never know if there's a tomorrow. Worrying about things you can't change is actually a dreadful waste of energy.

Great advice for everyone getting so worked up by South Africa's political craziness. This too shall pass.

From Biznews community member Greg Gow

In 100 years it will be all over.I was in Namibia the whole of last week and they actually cannot stand South Africans anymore because of our current government. When our currency takes a hammering like it did in December 2015 their currency reacts the same way. The SA problems are affecting other countries on our boarders and very unfairly so. I don't think our politicians have even comprehended this due to their lack of knowledge on how the world actually works our there. They think we these big hotshots in Africa and actually we are really nothing in the bigger scheme of things. Any business now being done in SA by SA business men now requires them to have a Namibian VISA, this I believe is due to a general trust issue related to SA. I was given this attached video clip by a black Namibian while we were all socialising one evening last week. It very well known but has been remixed. Just goes to show and by the way there is not a single bit of racial tension in Namibia at all everyone lives in harmony from what I saw and traveled a fair amount from Windhoek to Ojivarongo and further.