Watter padda is jy?

Deur Daniël Eloff

Ons ken almal die fabel van die padda wat lewendig gekook word. Die uitgangspunt van die verhaal is dat as ’n padda skielik in kookwater gesit word, dan sal die padda uit die pot uitspring, maar as die padda in lou water geplaas word wat dan stadig na die kookpunt gebring word, sal die padda nie die gevaar besef nie en sal dit uiteindelik dood gaargemaak word. Die verhaal word dikwels gebruik as ’n metafoor vir die onvermoë of onwilligheid van mense om te reageer op, of bewus te wees van bedreigings en gevare wat geleidelik eerder as skielik ontstaan. Wat die verhaal egter nie in ag neem nie is die merkwaardige vermoë van diere om aan te pas.

Een van die besonderste voorbeelde van diere se vermoë om aan te pas is die Noord-Amerikaanse houtpadda. Tydens die snerpende winters van Noord-Amerika word die houtpadda, sy bloed en weefsel, kliphard gevries. Vir maande aan een is die houtpadda, sy hart en hele liggaam gevries. Maar sodra die koue verby is en die padda ontdooi begin die padda se hart weer te klop en is die padda weer springlewendig en gesond. Ten spyte van yskoue winters het die houtpadda gesorg vir sy plek onder die son.

So ook het die mens ’n merkwaardige vermoë om aan te pas. Die verhaal van die padda in kookwater word dikwels deur Suid-Afrikaners gebruik wanneer ons oor die toestand van die land praat. Maak nie saak of jy op die oewer van die Oranjerivier, tussen die jakarandas in Arcadia of in die hartjie van KwaZulu-Natal sit nie, die realiteite van ons mislukte staat raak ons elkeen. Dit is dus net natuurlik om soms te wonder of ons nie hier aan die suidpunt van Afrika ook in ’n pot sit met water wat al nader aan kookpunt gebring word nie. Uitdagings soos misdaad, onbetroubare kragvoorsiening, dalende onderwysgehalte en algemene ekonomiese wanhoop skep maklik die indruk dat ons pot kookpunt nader. Maar wat so baie mense nie in ag neem nie is die merkwaardige vermoë van die mens om aan te pas.

Die uitdagings wat ons in die gesig staar mag dalk oorweldigend lyk, maar soos die houtpadda vir ons wys behoort ons nie die uitdagings van Suid-Afrika net as neerkdrukkend te aanvaar nie. Die houtpadda het besef dat hy nie iets aan die yskoue winter kan doen nie, en dus het die houtpadda eerder aangepas. Die houtpadda het ook nie sy tasse gepak en groener weivelde gaan soek nie maar het eerder daar waar hy is aangepas. Die yskoue winter was nie ’n doodsvonnis vir die houtpadda nie.

Insgelyks mag dit dalk wees dat ons in Suid-Afrika nie veel kan doen om die uitdagings uit die weg te ruim nie, maar ons kan aanpas. Kommerwekkende uitdagings behoort ’n aansporing en nie ’n doodsvonnis te wees nie.

Daar is twee soorte mense in hierdie lewe. Aan die een kant is daar mense wat glo dat ons paddas in kookwater is. Aan die ander kant is daar die wat glo dat omstandighede ons aanspoor tot nuwe hoogtes, dat uitdagings lei tot innoverende denke en dat die mees doeltreffende oplossing tot probleme is om eienaarskap te neem en self te doen.

Wanneer jou kind dus in ’n skool sit wat agteruit gaan vra jouself af, gaan jy die padda wees wat bloot die agteruitgang aanvaar en jouself daarby berus, of gaan jy die houtpadda wees wat die agteruitgang gebruik om jouself en jou gemeenskap aan te spoor om iets daaraan te doen? Indien jy weer vir die vierde keer in een week kerse aansteek omdat Eskom nie krag kan voorsien nie, moet jy besluit, gaan jy in die donker langs kerslig sit of gaan jy aanpas en eienaarskap neem?

Meeste lesers mag dit dalk reeds besef maar Orania is ongetwyfeld ’n houtpadda. Te midde van ’n wêreld vol paddas in potte het Orania sy moue opgerol word, uitdagings nie neerkdrukkend aanvaar nie en aangepas in onsekere tye. Orania is ’n voorbeeld oor hoe gemeenskappe eienaarskap kan en behoort te neem en daarvoor sê ons dankie al die pad van hier uit die ou Transvaal uit.

Daniël Eloff is `n prokureur verbonde aan Hurter Spies.

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