So I've been scratching my cute head for most of the day wondering what I could blog about. I toyed with a lot of ideas in my mind of possible articles, from writing about friendships, our baes, being a makoti to goals and financial success. But we've talked about all these before and am not big on celeb gossip either. So here goes, a review of my new crush's telenovela, Uzalo. Airs on Sabc 1 Mon to Wed 830pm.
The gist of the novela is, there are 2 young men, who were exchanged and given to the wrong parents at birth. These 2 families lead 2 totally different lives, but they both seem well up to me. Like, neither of the two families have serious poverty issues. One of the characters is working on making that mistake known and rectified because her life is in danger coz of it (tradition and superstitions!! - story for another day). Anyway, my interest in the whole thing is, we can't possibly choose the families we are born into, or in this case families we end up being raised into, we just make the best out of the situation each time, fit in well (side eyes MaFemme, kiiii) and live. But on the other hand we do have a choice of choosing the families we marry into or not? Open for discussion...
Should you discover your bae's family expect you to wake up at 5am cook, clean and do all those things women r expected to do, or worse still, discover that they are a family of criminals or even worse they are witchcraft head offices. What then? Do you quit? Do you keep your lane and have your life with your bae and not worry about what goes on back at his home? At least here we do have a choice I think. But back to Uzalo. These young men are raised by parents who aren't exactly their parents... Would they want to be reunited with their biological parents? Will one find it's better off wherever they were raised? What would you do?
Lets go!
By Immanathi
