THE CHILDHOOD DREAM

Luke 9 Verse 59 – 60:  “Then He said to another, ‘Follow Me.’
But he replied: ‘Lord, let me first go and bury my father.’
Jesus said to him: ‘Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.’ “

Today I want to request you dear readers to imagine yourself as a child again, and you want to sell lemonade in your neighborhood.
So you set-up your little lemonade stand and you place a cardboard signpost written with a crayon and get to work.

The first day, one person comes and buys some lemonade. Then the second day, two people come. Then on the third, three and on the fourth, four people come. Within a month, you would be serving dozens of people with lemonade every day and the demand just keeps growing.
Not only does the whole neighborhood want to have a taste of your sweet, citrus squeeze, but the price of lemons could keep getting cheaper. At first, you could get five lemons for E1. Then the next week you could get eight for the same amount. Then on the next week you could get 12 at the same amount as well. Within a few months, you would be a lemonade money-making machine.

Of course, news could get out about your magical lemonade village business. And pretty soon other children could be setting up their own lemonade stands around you.
This will not matter if the demand keeps growing. So you would welcome these other children and tell them:  “This is the inkhundla’s opportunity where anyone can sell lemonade and make money.”
Meanwhile, miraculously, more people show up every day for the lemonade, and the price of lemons just keeps getting cheaper.

You and the other children then realise something - it becomes impossible not to make money in this inkhundla and that you would either be lazy or completely incompetent not to. Your lemonade opportunities could only be limited by the time and energy you’re willing to put into it. The sky should be the limit, and the only thing standing between you and your dreams of lemonade riches is yourself.
Children come to see life in a pretty simple way and people get what they deserve. Similarly, people deserve whatever they get and if they want something better, they should be smarter and/or work harder for it.
As time goes by and the news of this ‘magical’ lemonade village — now serving lemonade to thousands of customers daily and started to spread widely, became widely known.

Children started settling in from faraway neighbourhoods to try their hand at making it in the lemonade world. They take the worst jobs- squeezing lemons and throwing out garbage because they know that with the boundless opportunity in the lemonade neighbourhood, it is merely a matter of time before they move up and start making good money themselves as well.

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