Priceless moments.

The past week was not as busy as others so I decided to sort out some archive material that had been in boxes for a while. There were boxes with letters and photos by famous struggle heroes such as Nelson Mandela. As I read some of these letters, I thought to myself that these people were trully amazing. The media has made icons of such people to the extent that they end up appearing as superhumans. We hardly ever get to hear about the personal challenges they faced to become the revered people they are today. The letters I read gave human qualities to people whose names and titles have come to suggest otherwise. I read one letter by one struggle heroin, a woman who had being imprisoned for political activity within the African National Congress. She was writing her husband and asking about the children. She was worried about one child who was ill and she wished that she could hold and hug her son. Within the same letter, she gave instructions to her husband concerning the usage of money in her account. She wanted the husband to pay several people and then buy some household goods for the home. As I read that part, I could not help but marvel at what these women had to go through. They had to deal with the prison experience as well as manage their homes from behind bars. I thought to myself that I was one of the few priviledged; not many people know of the personal struggles that political heroes and heroines had to face.