Its sad that most of you Malawian migrants living in the west especially in UK, Germany, USA, Nederland’s….haven’t learned to appreciate the superior side of good life led here back home . It’s disgusting to read all about the silly and barbaric stuff you migrated guys have tended to portray about life here at home on this forum over the past few days. You have written a lot of childish stuff about your own country simply coz of tasting some “western sweets”. You the plastic faceless people, shame on you!

I wonder how and why you wish to think that you have become successful and clever simply coz you have migrated to UK or US having bought HD Plasma TVs, Home Cinemas, beautiful German cars, flip camera fones, Ipods etc…. Well, whether you have convinced yourselves to have achieved a thing or two, however, you omit one law of life. “Success” is rather a journey and not simply a destination; hence a half of the fun in fact is getting there. So how do you pipo get there and what makes the difference between a life full of struggle and one that is full of earned pleasure? Why do you want to portray life in the western world to be a bed of roses????Why do you want to make us believe you are living a life of a moviestar  or some R Kelly song? Tell us the truth about life in the western world …how much you struggled to get what you have and how soon and easily you shall lose them…

Azungu mwawatsatilawo ndiye adayipitsa kumudzi kuno . Today we seem to be  at rest, unmotivated or quiet or withdrawn but we have found it easier to stay there than to make the effort to move ahead as willing slaves.

But you guys moyo wanuwo uli bwanji kunjako ..????

**learn to relax more and stop working as slaves to the so called high classed western economies where you boast of these High Definition TVs, beautiful cars, houses, good life, beers, nice prostitutes, etc. Tell us that you don’t like your work that you do there but you only appreciate the sense of fulfilment and usefulness that it brings (£<$...).

**Your lives is a shame and why hasn’t this success of wealth you always gossip about and the technological development brought you westerners the desire of leisure it predicts to? Why is it then that it has brought even harder work for you to enjoy?

**Listen you matchona , work is expected to be treated as a vocation but to you guys even working hard is just not quite enough. You work 24/7 to earn better money to flash out mukabwera kumudzi kuno.  Its high time you the western world guys evaluated your work ethics as your lives are being damaged. Where is it written that life shud be endured and not enjoyed? You don’t enjoy with all those shifts guys. Life back at home is better.

Food for thot: The realisation of Aristotle’s belief that it is only in leisure that we are most human should be within our reach us all. Marx dreamt of society reaching a point where pipo cud spend the morning thinking and the afternoon fishing. How do you live your lives guys?  In your countries you matchona  life means a more work –centred society than ever, and it demands more of you the immigrants than ever.

**: Listen, one sociologist has identified five categories of experience as vital for well-being: time structure, social contact; collective effort, social identity and regular activity. With the decline of your communities full of discrimination , hate, prejudice , lack of faith institutions and fragmentation of family employment has become the main sole provider of all the five hence this has given your azungus unprecedented purchase over your lives: how you are organised , how you perceive yourselves , and how you shape your relationships with others. Mulibe weekend inu . Shame.  

Tisaiwale kuti the work-life balance agenda is where a philosophical question about what is the good life and what is the common good interest with the political.You have never tried to  challenge the centrality of your work with your lives and reconsider the price you pay for your wages. Time shud be both a personal and a political issue.