The letter to us, the South Sudanese, on finding ourselves, and the four languages [part 2]
5 min readBy Kur Wel Kur, Adelaide, Australia
Dear my fellow South Sudanese,
The story of the creation is told million times, and the wonders in it are explored since our world came into existence. However, I am just reminding you in this letter. So, in order to coexist as people of South Sudan we must adopt the simplicity in the complex creation as our second language.
Just regurgitating…
In the CREATION, forgetting the heaven beyond the Space, the Earth is like a child that comes out of the womb where it breathes like any other cell in the mother’s body, but when the child finds itself outside its comfort zone, in the world where the dry oxygen is 21 percent of 100 percent of other gases, 100 percent of gases, which can’t sustain life through breathing, a child’s system automatically turns on other mechanisms.
So, we, as babies are equipped with systems, which filter oxygen out of 100 percent of impure gases. To a few of us, it’s a complexity in simplicity, or simplicity in complexity, whichever way you understand it. Simplicity in complexity because we don’t think about breathing. It happens voluntarily. That means there’s SomeOne greater than everything and everyone who we see. This greatest being created the world (Earth) as a complete self-energising, feeding itself without help from anywhere apart from the Sun.
For example, take an animal- a human being, and a tree (vegetation). God created these living things with an everlasting relationship, a relationship, where one life breathes life into another life. So, out of the soil, humus, comes the nutrients and water, products that the tree uses to survive and thrive. Then, the Sun, the natural energy, fuels the earth; it gives energy to the tree, which the tree uses to make its own food, so as a by-product, the oxygen escapes into the atmosphere, thus keeping the oxygen levels in check for animals and other creatures, which breathe in oxygen.
While, the vegetation (trees, shrubs and grasses) are on the production line, manufacturing food to feed themselves and animals, and giving out oxygen, animals breathe out carbon dioxide for vegetation. To complete the cycle of creation, complexity in simplicity, God gives time limits, the expiry dates to all things on earth, whether young or old, whether small or great, whether rich or poor, whether powerful or weak, and whether majority or minority, all will go back to the earth, their roots, enriching it.
And the whole process begins, the process of recycling, where our remains become essentials to the life of the earth because the worms of all sorts in the soil feed on us, on the grasses, on the trees and on the shrubs, and on other living creatures. Therefore, supporting and rejuvenating the life of the earth to its infancy. And it [Earth] grows exponentially.
My dear South Sudanese…
What happens when we (human) break the laws of simplicity in creation?
In 19th century (1969), the first human’s foot prints appeared on the moon! In 21st century, we are going wireless: our information system is wireless, our communication is wireless and our wars are airborne. With these advancements, we are searching for our political, economic and social positions in the world.
Pride, greed and insatiable curiosity fuel our search. So, the Moon is explored and the Mars is walked on by robots. The more we mine the inorganic materials from the earth to build our rockets to travel to the Space, rockets for wars, and materials for our communications and dwellings, we are destroying. Our humans’ pride in which all nations are competing through technologies, competitions, which take them to look for life elsewhere, is the greatest sin, which will put an end to this life-Earth.
We are killing the earth, a life that breathes life into our lives. For example, to attain the wireless communication, the geologists today, mine all sorts of minerals. At the pinnacle of wireless communication, one smart phone, e.g. iPhone or Samsung, needs 21 to 62 elements (metals and non-metals), just to build one smart phone.
And yet, we, the human population shows no sign of stopping. This means we are literally choking ourselves to death. So, the more we become brutal to the mother-earth, the more we also don’t care about the human life. An observer, a philosopher in the making, Zee Machar observes this reality and wrote the following statement:
“It took 9 months [for God] to completely form a human being but it takes just one second for barbaric fools in South Sudan to take that life away”
AS South Sudanese, we must understand and speak the language of simplicity in the complex creation of all things on Earth. The simplicity to live and support ourselves as one people and one nation.
Kur Wel Kur has a Bachelor Degree in Genetics and Zoology from Australian National University (ANU). He pursues a Masters of International Security Studies at Macquarie University (Australia). He is presently the General Secretary of Greater Bor Community in Adelaide, Australia. He can be reached via his email contact: kurwelkur @ yahoo.com
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