Desperately Crying

This morning I felt resentment, disgust and nuisance towards this country and its people like never before... I just exploded. When I live 15 minutes away from university, yet leave an hour before class just to make it there in an hour and a half, then this is NOT NORMAL!!

At the traffic light, in a two lane road, my car third in row. I’m surrounded in the middle, with two cars trying to either get into my lane or through my lane to the road next to me, I see the light turn green 3 times with the whole row in front of me still, not able to cross the light as the cars from the corresponding light at the left are blocking the way and finally "serve the people" police show up 45 minutes later; relaxed, taking their time, chit chatting, having finally decided that it was about time that they started their duty.

With my car still for 20 minutes, I sat there in the driver's seat, placed the gear on P and tears started swarming down my face...I was mad, frustrated, desperate, resentful, and felt held captive, I was utterly disgusted by the scene of the police and their unwilling efforts in directing the traffic. The carelessness and apathy of this country and its people regarding the infrastructure and traffic problems has reached its heights and they do not seem to care. Why should they… The private sector is run by an influx of expatriates and we are the ones having to deal with getting late to work and school.

I was going to miss my class for the third time now, and a quiz, because of this traffic..this is not deemed normal..how early am I supposed to get up, let alone be in university for a 9 o'clock class!! I hardly get sleep as it is, I cannot leave any earlier, for its only logical in this case that I just don't sleep!!

Having reached the class 40 minutes late, I find the class done with the quiz and the professor lecturing on the new material…I was infuriated…I asked the professor if I could have my quiz quietly at the back during his next class, which is in the same classroom, luckily and thankfully he agreed. I thanked him dearly and had a good quiz. If it wasn't for that I would have been on edge now!!

This daily traffic is definitely not deemed normal..and me sitting in the car crying desperately amid the traffic is not normal either!