It has become my life, my lifestyle, my choice, my mindset and my default.
This has taken control of me and I am more than excited to say that I am accepting of it and embrace it.
Everyday I wake up and choose to live the way that I do. I choose to hope, to be idealistic and to fight for what I believe. This blog has become all-consuming. It’s what I dream about, it’s what I talk about, it’s what I think about and what I live. Everyday.
A year and a bit ago I thought I was starting a blog. I was wrong. I was changing a life, mine. I was taking a feeling, a belief, a love and a patriotism and owning it in my mind.
I cannot tell you the countless arguments that I have gotten in to with regard to this very blog. In fact it’s becoming hard to defend this blog to people who don’t want to listen or know that there are alternatives to hatred, anger, sadness, fear and disappointments. But there are alternatives.
The basic premise for this post is simple, a blog is a diary and it’s time that I start creating things to write about instead of sourcing things to write about. It’s time to start acting on some “Positive Action”.
If you have any ideas about how you interpret Positive Action or if you can think about suggestions you might have for me then fire away, I am all ears. Let’s make it happen. Bring Positive Action to the fore.
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March 11th, 2008 at 8:42 am
This place rocks, its nice to get a positive side to the negative bottom line stories we are flooded with through traditional and new media channels.
This is exactly the kind of platform SA needs, one that sees the realities of life in SA, but one that can just as easily acknowledge the good things that are happening every day in SA.
Keep it up Nic, your positive action of getting this going triggered more than you care to admit or see.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Thanks gMk I appreciate the sentiment!! I am sure there is something great brewing, it just needs to explode now already!
March 11th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Thanks man – and you are doing it exceptionally well. Amongst all the issues of the day, you are a shining light for hope!
March 12th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Good to hear Nic,
This would be a great initiative to get behind, that would really make a difference to the masses – Tony is a mate of mine who is doing great things via Hemporium in Cape Town. Check this vid out and email me if you’d like an intro. This was featured on SABC(3?) last year:
http://zoutpiel.com/2007/09/05/hemp-for-a-healthy-planet/
August 21st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
That hit the nail on the head! Why waste energy on the negatives when there are so many postives right in front of you
Positive Action is they forward!
September 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Hi Nic
I’m digging your idealistic mindset and go getter attitude.
Through nostalgia I started searching the SA bloggosphere and found some people that You might be interested in featuring on SA Rocks:
http://www.townshiptrades.com
I’m not sure if it is their Slogan but it is So true:
“Africa needs TRADE not AID!”
Hope all goes well with your Radio 702 interview tonight!
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May 13th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Hi Nic,
I’m proud owner of proudly.co.za and proud.co.za and I’d like to join in with these names into a rocking family of sa positive blogs and websites. Any idea what to do with these names? Maybe contact me if you have a good one…?
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Hi Nic
This is great what you have done – I am an advocate of positivity and so cool that you have channelled it and allowed this positivity to manifest the way you have.
Very cool – hope all is well otherwise and great insert on Sunrise man! More of the same!
peace
bev
August 11th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Nic,
Imagine this:
I am a rich fat American that wants to start a business in ZA. We meet and you tell me to ignore all the bad press on ZA, to ignore the fact that there is a massive brain drain happing, and that all is rosy in South Africa.
I move there, and 2 months later my wife gets beaten up and raped.
Who do you think I will blame – the rapist or you?
August 11th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Nick – Why don’t you just read what I write instead of moaning so much. You must have the most frustrating existence spending all your time moaning about a place you’ve left for dead and hate so much. Let it go.
Anyways, I am not ignoring anything. I know it exists, I live here and I’m not blind. I just chose to let this blog illustrate how incredible our country is instead of focusing on the negative press. I’m not telling people to ignore the press, I’m asking them to keep perspective and read both sides of the story and then the truth and then make a decision, that’s all.
August 13th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Nic,
Am don’t think you are seeing both sides of the story. It seems like you want people to ignore the reality. And that is quite scary. And I also do not understand why you do not like people that fear for their life and move to a safer country. I do read what you write and you slag expats (as you did in your post above by slagging me off), and paint a picture that being positive will solve the problems in ZA.
Please do something and help the country, as that would make a change. This blog just upsets people (especially expats) and yes it is on the border of “brainwash”.
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