Goooood MorNinG WedNESday!

I greeted Wednesday morning with puffy eyes and a warm horlicks, washed my face and hit the road. I love the world at 05:00am – it’s at its nicest. Mostly asleep with a soft stirring as apartment lights come on and baths are run and kettles boiled – street lamps flicker – flicker – on – then off.

Trees shake the last few drops of last nights rain off their leaves and they fall on my head. I whistle – rain drops keep falling on my head, keep falling on my head, and I smile, at myself, and the hobo who has just woken up in his cardboard house waves – and I wave back and he says “good morning” and I greet him back – as if he were a friend I’ve always known.

The sky is filled with colour. Peach, pink, blues and greens. The sun is lazy – and she is still in bed, she is in no rush.

I envy her; I think to myself, I would also rather be in bed today.

The Moses Mahbida stands proudly in the backdrop and I stop at one of Durban’s most beautiful look out points known as “the cube” to look at one of Durban’s most amazing sites - I look out over my city. The city I’ve always known. The city I love. And I say to myself “damn I’m proud of who we are” and I smile, because I know that later tonight I will be in that stadium, this pride of Ethekweni, the stadium built for the soccer world cup, tonight I will scream and shout – clap and jump and cheer for my country when I’m there to watch the game. And I remember, wow, only 99 days until the 2010 Soccer World Cup kick off.

I’ve forgotten that I’m running and now I’m just watching, I’m listening and I’m taking in all the freshness of an early morning. I jump in puddles and I jump on rocks. I balance on a wall and I’m doing the tango with a fly buzzing around my head.

Naaah, I would much rather be here, in the now, who needs to still be in bed?