there was a nigga i went to primary and high school with, Tshepo Chauke...that motherfucker was a demon in the short distance and he, like Bolt, was tall af. watching him make other boys look like they were jogging in the 100m was such bliss. lmao

i used to be so mad that i wasn't fast because being that nigga that blitzed on the track brought the girls bruh. wa bona ebile ka nako tsa inter-house athletics days, you were the superstar if you embarrassed guys in the 100m.

i had to settle for the fucking 800m. like, who cared about that in school then? i mean, Hezekiel Sepeng and Mbulaeni Mulaudzi made it look cool at professional level, but ko skolong it was that boring race no one watched. like the 1500m.

the only 100m race i remember winning was in grade 4. ah, the glory days.

...until Neo Nkwe showed up in grade 5 and then Tshepo Chauke took over in grade 6, all the way to matric.

took me a very long time to accept that i was actually mad average at everything i loved with all my heart.

football and athletics.

i was a god at badminton though. i have no idea how i even got into that shit, but i wiped the floor with them boujee parkview senior kids.

then i tried cricket in matric because i had nothing better to do with my time and actual school work was not my portion.

i hit a 4 in my very first game (i batted at 11) and my coach gave me the match ball...even though we lost to hyde park high.

i really wasted everyone's time tryna be a sportsman ko sgela.

looking back, i kinda wish i had known about sports broadcasting being this awesome while i was still in high school, then i wouldn't have bothered wasting my parents' money studying advertising.

wasted their money going on school sports trips, making them buy me kits and forcing them to fetch me late almost every day, when i wasn't even good enough for anything.

lmao! then i thought i would be the greatest copywriter to come out of south africa, like Melusi, but that turned out to be a big ass joke.

ALL that money gone down the drain.

now here i am, talking about people who are actually good at sport. :-(

man, i was hopeless ko sgela. ne ke tshaba banyana, sucked at sports and my academics were in shambles.

badimo ba ka have been put through the most.

it all worked out though. o ka se tjho hore my biggest contribution in this world once upon a time was to inhale and exhale and blink.