When hope turns into a drug…how to survive with or without it? Either way you get nothing but lose and go on losing every time. I may sound pessimist, but it’s not the case about everyone, and everywhere. However, in a country like Zimbabwe there is nothing – no food, no sanitation, no proper education, fear for life…leave it list will go on and on.

Let’s talk about something different. Let’s go back to the hope again. And this is something that everyone is with, everyone is aspiring for, everyone wants to come out true, but how will it happen? Perhaps no one is with the solution or to show the way out. There is no one even to sell hope for the people in Zimbabwe. This is the fate of Zimbabwe and one wonders as to how long will it continue?

God helps those who help themselves. This is an old saying. However, it doesn’t have its implication right everywhere, not at least in Zimbabwe. Yes, when you’re hungry, fighting against food crises, surviving on less than a dollar a day, fearing for your life…you just can’t revolt…you can’t heave your heart out. It’s difficult, you know.

Even then, hope is a currency that keeps one dreaming for the good fortunes. Hoping against hope is what the life is all about, but is there any life for the Zimbabweans? In Zimbabwe only one person has a say, and he’s none other than Robert Mugabe. He rules Zimbabwe like eagle over the doves and thinks himself no less than almighty.

One might be thinking why a person sitting thousands of miles away is talking about Mugabe and yes, very true. But there is a good reason for me to write this. I read “Do Not Recognize Mugabe for Anything”, by Rob and indeed, a fantastic post. Rob is critical about UN inviting Mugabe to have a chair in the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York. This forced me to think whether the world community has punished Zimbabweans more than Mugabe did? They never punished Mugabe, I beg your pardon. Efforts to alienate Mugabe has done nothing substantial, didn’t budge him from ruling with iron hand and he went on doing so unabatedly for the last three decades, blowing sanctions and plights to the wind.

Amid all this chaos, Mugabe went on enjoying the power and wealth but the common masses suffered a lot. It won’t be an exaggeration to say that they suffered double with Mugabe’s despotic rule and recurrent international sanctions. Even somewhere the world community is a party with Mugabe to make Zimbabweans suffer.

World should, at least now, understand that by punishing the wicked regimes, they’ve punished the innocent people. Imposing sanctions one after the other on Zimbabwe will do nothing but woefully hurt people. Therefore, the world leaders should either push Mugabe off to get people rid of the tyrant or at least stop putting sanctions.

But still hope, you know, never lets you die in peace nor does it always prove to be the harbinger of good. But one thing that strikes me again and again is: will Zimbabweans ever understand that cowards die thousand times and brave just once? Or will they only wait until Almighty’s call to Mugabe?