He said, she said, they said, I heard

Am sick and tired of being sick and tired of all of you. Liars, backbiters, tale-bearers, busybodies. You brood of vampires and vipers who feed off the lives of others. You waste my time. Mind your own business.

I get tired of listening to what they have to say. One comes and says “I heard your Uncle was caught doing this, that, and other”. Another comes and says “your Aunt was caught red handed with another man, pants down and bent over”. Yet another comes and says “your Grandfather has a second family in another country” etc.

He says, “did you know man? That guy is a thief man, he got chased from his job for stealing man, and the house and car he has he bought with stolen money I tell you”.

And she says, “that girl over there, yes that one right there, the one with the big thighs and long neck. That girl is a whore, she gets it on with any man that comes her way for money. In fact, her mother is like that too. The both of them whore around with the catholic fathers too. Musangomuonayi”

And others spend their time pointing fingers at me. He is this and he is that, they say. He thinks himself holy and better than us, they say. He is buying a car, that’s how rich he is these days, they say. “Have you heard”, they say, “that guy Christian Psychiatrix has HIV. Just look at him, see the way he walks and the tone of his skin. Do not be fooled by how innocent he looks, how quiet he is, or with the verses he speaks from the Bible. Do not go near him. He is dangerous, so dangerous.”

Fee fi fo fum.

In the words of Marshall Mathers: “Point a finger at me and I point one back at them but not the index or pinkie or the rim or the thumb but the one that you point when you don’t give a f***, cause they driving me crazy”

Are you saying that you do not have skeletons in your own closet? If we looked at you would you be found pure and white as snow? Enanu ndi afiti, enanu ndi a sataniki, enanu mumakhalira kulanda amuna aeni ake, enanu munayenda chothamanga mbulanda zovala zili mmanja mutagwidwa kuchigololo, ndipo enanu mumapanganso zomwezi timapanga ife zolakwikazi.

It’s all very well that you choose to tell me or others, but what’s it to you? Of what benefit is it to you? And what does it do for me? Does the new knowledge you share with me add or remove a cubit from my life? I do not want to hear it, it merely corrupts the way I see other people.

As for the one who takes in such knowledge in their ear and takes it to heart, all I can say is Caveat Emptor (let the buyer beware). Yes, beware all that you hear for not everything is as it seems when you look at it. And who knows whether if you were in the same shoes you would not have done the same, committed the same shame or even worse.

It is written: ​​​​​​​“The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person’s innermost being (Prov 18:8). And “a gossip separates the closest friends.” Why don’t you observe and just close your mouth after you have seen it? It itches so much that you should tell another I know, but you do much damage with your wagging tongue. Yes you ruin a reputation and bring another person down into the mud and for what? 

Do not remove the grain of sand from another’s eye while you yourself have a plank (of wood) in your own eye. First remove that which is in your eye and then you will see well enough to remove the sand from your brother’s eye.

Do not throw stones at the sinner. In the words of Jesus : “Let he who has never committed a sin cast the first stone”. And it is written, “no one is righteous, no not even one” (Ecc. 7:20). So even you are no better than me, as much as I am no better than you.

Aye, woe to you indeed, for yours will be the unquenchable fire, the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth.

Abraham Lincoln once said, it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove any doubt (that you are indeed a fool).

It is written “Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger” (James: 1.19)

[But]“They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless. Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.”(Romans 1:29)