And you could say Marechera’s mother was the same, as she actually thought she was sending the demon that was in her into her son (literally, I mean).
But this kind of action comes from psychological torment and the fact that one does not have a free flowing river within oneself to draw from. One has to steal the waters of others.
There could be many reasons for this behavior, including extreme spiritual defeat, or learned bad patterns of behavior, or culturally instilled tendencies (like bad farming and bad workmanship). There are many reasons for wanting to steal the waters of others, but being parched and dry and not having any ability to produce water from one’s own well is always the ultimate motive. Therefore people have to be taught how to produce their own liquid energies for themselves, or to replenish these on their own when their wells start to run dry. Many will struggle, if their early childhood experiences have been extremely arid. But what we cannot do is cater to a narcissistic society, where people who are dried out feel entitled to consume from those who a relatively healthier.
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