OPINION: Underlying load shedding conditions
"We have and are still recovering from the Covid pandemic, which caused a lot of instability, panic and insecurity for South Africans, this on top of the load shedding!”
What started off as a small problem with our beloved Eskom power stations (2007-2008), has now grown to become a major factor in current human psychological state of minds.
Accountability and ownership instead of ‘It’s not me!’.
The definition of psychological instability is ‘a tendency towards lack of control, erratic behaviour, rapid changes and excessive emotions’.
Loadshedding is a daily factor facing all South Africans today and the repercussions are having a much greater impact on us than we realise.
For many, Dealing daily with “My get up and go, has got up and left!”
Despite the ever-growing worries about running businesses, keeping our heads afloat despite the ever-increasing cost of living, we now must deal with a known medical condition that affects our very core. “Emotional Instability and Psychological Well Being – ” Self-Belief!”
We have and are still recovering from the Covid pandemic, which caused a lot of instability, panic and insecurity for South Africans, this on top of the load shedding!”
Small businesses going under, family homes battling to keep up with the cost of living, not too mention the labour law requirements of minimum wage and medical aids, we feel we are not coping with life, which is no fault of our own. And yet we all take it personally! Naturally, we all do. The change in the school curriculum, going from the ‘old way’ to the new outcomes based learning and this failing miserably against world standards is also, although it may seem a small factor, a factor it is!
These factors are all leading to placing us in phases of severe “emotional instability.”
Emotional stability is negatively correlated with psychological well being, we therefore deal with unwanted emotions and thoughts daily. This is causing our entire sense of being to be compromised. Feeling as though you have failed in Life, battling to stay afloat.
And who is accountable?
An analogy – like rolling a wheel down a hill, beginning with a controlled turning of the wheel, keeping it balanced, retaining the correct speed. As time goes on, you try to control the wheel, more and more. Ironically losing control every second. By doing this, you attempt to keep up with the wheel, not realising that your legs are now moving faster than you can keep, ending in you falling flat on your face! Everything around the world is moving faster and faster.
We just sit and wait for the moment we fall flat on our face.
It’s the “Toilet Roll Syndrome!” – The closer you get to the end. The faster it spins. When the end is reached, there’s no rewinding.
BRUCE GLAISTER
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