No Lights on the Horizon - In Battle with Refracted Images of 'Self'

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Thabang Mangwane


Thabang Mangwane discovered his talent after resigning from his second job. He began work on his novel that day when the idea awoke in his mind. Despite episodes of depression and anxiety, he wrote almost every day thereafter. Even when his world seemed to be coming to an end—an end that came to life startlingly in his nightmares—he did not cease writing; he never wavered. Something within him, something bigger than himself, spared him. Those thoughts faded each day, as he shifted his perspective on life, and, true enough, he began to grow into his new self. Within a year of his becoming unemployed, his first manuscript had been completed. Then he realised that depression and anxiety get to us when we try to give birth to the ideal person we all have within ourselves. That change requires a massive shift, and that is when depression and anxiety take part. The breakdowns may seem countless, but they are at the behest of a new person whose time to be born has come in the form of an end of all things, including yourself. Many break irreparably, but, for those few struck with inspiration, there could be light on the horizon; and that light, is yourself.