Voyage to Harmonious land, Thabiso Matlala [the mitten read aloud .TXT] 📗

             VOYAGE TO HARMONIOUS LAND

First Edition, First Impression 2020

ISBN

Copyright © Thabiso Matlala

Editing and Proofreading by Initia Mogoswana

978-0-6208-93152

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ………………………………………. i

Introduction …………………………………………………ii

Dedication……………………………………………………..iii

Late perceptions……………………………………………….1-3

Planet Luvia……………………………………………………4-6

Mother Nature…………………………………………………..7-10

Impatience of a leader………………………………………..11-15

Precious soul………………………………………………………16-18

Tears of the Moon………………………………………………….22-23

Acknowledgements

Firstly, I would like to thank my late grandmother, Mosebotse Mahloko, as a motivation and particularly for fanning the flame with regards to this book. You really contributed a lot on this work in such a massive way.

A big gratitude to Mr Leroy Phasha, You really never gave up on this. Thanks for being there every step of the way as I conceived, carried and delivered this project. You really filled me with enthusiasm of becoming a published Author. You saw potential in me well before I even realised it and you nurtured it until it was fully developed. I will forever be indebted to you.

My English Teacher Mrs Morewane (Pakeng Primary) and my former School Principal Mr Marodi (Tlou Nare)

To Initia Mogoswana, you helped me get all my work on an intended point and I’ve learnt so much from you. Continue doing a great job for others too.

Appreciation to my siblings, parents and my entire family, friends and other supportive acquaintances around me.

Introduction

In Voyage to Harmonious Land there are 10 short stories which obviously have different contents. In late perceptions, the tendency of not sharing burdens with people around us is getting much people in trouble and only leave sadness ultimately, it is mostly due to thinking we are the only people facing a particular problem in life. While in planet luvia, the freedom of having your own mind-set is given. People tend to believe in some things just because others do, however, that can bring fake satisfaction. At an early age, we are being told that there is heaven and hell, and that the only two places where souls are taken to after living on earth, which others may believe but others may not. It might be a big debate. The Author does not believe that if really God loves his children, there is no way he’d give their souls to hell.

The young love never dies especially when it has happiness and sad memories in the love vein. This also reveal that the nature of loving someone from a different background never ends and will never end because of people’s hearsay.

The nature is in pains and no one notices or create measures to save it. In Mother nature, the dependence on nature will always grow, thus we need to save and rekindle and preserve it for the coming generations in upcoming centuries.

The narrator met a beyond belief tree which saved the entire nature in the village through him.

The lesson of being alert after achieving a big thing in life is given dupe to Mandela’s Royal. It is so hard to have whatever you want in life but yet easy to lose. It is such an important thing to be eye opened every time because not everyone has better and good intentions for us.

Power of forgiveness and togetherness is always beneath the people in dreaming of Blood Rendezvous. The kingship will forever be the ruling part of all generation for the peacefulness. The Author’s love of mermaids will never die. In the precious soul, it is believed that mermaids are only connected to people with spiritual visions and tend to be too gently to them. However, they become angry when one denies in become one of their chosen souls. This reveals that there might be people around you who are willing to help but because of your behaviour…they revert.

In tears of the moon there will always be different stepparents, and most action or truth are seen after the passing of biological parents.

Dedication

This book is genuinely dedicated to children and teenagers which are more in love with adventure and the nature of reading, it is a huge honour to share stories with everyone out there. The lesson behind all the writing is based on the mindsets of many characteristics and all this is to arise or improve the reading tendency nor frequency of the youth.

Late perceptions

On the side of the Sahara deserts at the South western townships, there was a certain boy who was biologically different from other people. He found his life as freakish because he had the late feelings. His parents were not happy about that, they did not know what to do to help their child because they were all not sure whether it was a disease to cure or just his nature. His father Brian always said that if he was a doctor, he would take off his son skin and give him a thin skin of a snake. That will aid him in having normal feelings like everyone in the planet. Leonard would go through the whole winter with extreme coldness and hot sun without wearing proper clothes for that conditions and he became extremely ill after every season.

Community was also doleful about the bearing of the boy and everyone wanted to help. They tried in many ways, but nothing seemed to come up. Clearly there was no solution to the boy's problem.

Leonard had a propension of swimming, one cold morning he got out of his blanket and went straight to the river. He did not even feel that the weather did not allow anyone to use water without changing its temperature from colder to hotter. Everyone was looking at him in a surprised oddity as he was wearing summer clothes on the streets and he was smiling alone. A cap with short sleeved shirt and short trouser, this was unusual, he did it the whole season. He got to the river and jumped into the cold water. He just enjoyed the water and never felt any coldness. “late feelings” that is what it’s called. Leonard always knew that all the coldness of the water would be felt after some hours, or days.

After some few hours when it became warmer and the sun was beginning to get more hotter, dodgy boys from his village went to the same river to have spot in other to be able to smoke and get warmer from the fire they always make on such weathers. They saw him from a distance and thought maybe the crocodile is eating something, maybe a person, maybe an animal. They ran to the water as they thought it was good to help, when they got closer and closer, Leonard was having fun and enjoying himself and it seemed to be so long after he got inside the water. The gang of boys got shocked as they were all wearing huge sized jackets, rich in cotton inside them. “hey! It’s a great morning, get of your clothes and let’s have fun”

The boys laughed and looked at him as someone who lost his mind and they forced him out of the water. He was not intending to be out of the water, he became so stubborn at the first moment, but they finally dragged and got him out. The boys made a huge fire and placed him next to it.

“Are you crazy, how can you swim during such weather?” Anthony asked. Everyone looked at him and he just went quiet. Leonard did not seem to be enjoying the fire at all, maybe he was not even feeling the warmness of the fire, “Bring this boy close to the fire, and give him one cigarette to smoke, it is for inside warm.” everyone laughed and they just made jokes out of him, he was also laughing, they knew he was too young for smoking and peer pressure could not act on him. One boy took off his jacket and gave him to wear, they

took him home and when they arrived his mother though he was part of the crew as they were known of doing notorious things, she was already preparing words of excessive warning to them.

“Hello, we got your son in the water down the river, he doesn’t seem to feel the coldness in himself, is Leonard having a problem?” Daven asked.

“No my child is okay. Just that he likes to swim, no matter the weather” Juli said. “Oh, but we heard that the community tried to help him, admit that your son has a problem.” Anthony said

“He had a problem with his leg but he is okay now, you can leave. Thanks for bringing him home” Juli said.

He gave Daven his jacked and got in the house. Juli did not want people to know of her son’s problem. She thought people might ridicule her son, but who knows? Maybe if people know the issue of the boy, they can try to help where they can as many seem to be enjoying going around talking about other people’s issues. They could meet people who can help to meet other people to help. The intention of talking about other people’s problems is to create an enjoyable chat but not realising that sometimes it can help, is good for people to go around and talk in other to get others help.

A day later at school, while he was in the classroom with his friend Jame, he began to have goose bumps on his skin, he really felt cold. This was the moment he was feeling the coldness from the water he was swimming in the previous day. He was excessively feeling cold and his English teacher called Shamandre took him outside the class for him to get sunlight on his skin, but he didn’t seem to be better or getting warm at all. She took him home to alert his parents about his temperature at that time, but they just imposed him on bed and gave him heavy blankets. He was not better for hour so they just had hope that he would be okay on that day. Her mother always got shocked in situations like this, she always made his son’s condition a secret.

A day later they went to the neatest clinic to see a doctor or a nurse or even anyone who might be able to help the boy in such unusual state he was in, but they yielded nothing as the doctors said they never had a patient