You shouldn’t blow your top in life.

Huh? 🤣 Who is this delicate question directed at again? Well, believe it or not, not to one person in particular, but rather… to everyone?

You, me, the President, the plebs, everyone: let’s not blow our own trumpets.

And in what areas? In all areas. Yes, yes, it’s good to aim for the moon, but when you can’t, when you don’t have the means, shut up, stay in your place, work silently, and maybe one day you’ll reach for the moon, that’s all we wish you.

Okay, this is all very theoretical, all that Elman, any examples, any practical cases?

I don’t have any specifically at hand, but I hope you get the message?

Basically, it boils down to this: if you have the means, go for it. If you don’t have the means, keep calm, and instead of bragging, go ahead and work hard to get those means, and then treat yourself.

Many will still feel targeted by these few lines… and they’re right 🤣

Do you dream of development, wealth, well-being? Uh, yes, but you don’t even have water and electricity yet, so mipetraha tsara. Shut up, work hard, and make sure there’s enough water and electricity for everyone.

Blowing up is also this constant tendency to want to impress everyone, when you don’t have the means.

Or else you’ll get those means, as usual, by robbing Peter to pay Paul. So you’ll get your little fifteen minutes of glory, but in return, you’ll have sabotaged other, much more important priorities.

I could buy a Ferrari tomorrow… but I can’t afford to drive one. Do you get the difference? So I’m not going to jeopardize my entire budget just to buy a Ferrari, with money I don’t have, to try to impress people who, deep down, couldn’t care less. 🤣

Of course, if you really have the means, I won’t forbid you from driving a Ferrari; you do what you want with your money, that’s your problem. But when you really can’t afford it, once again, forget it and focus on your real priorities.

And here we’ll be much more specific: the real priorities at the moment are certainly not cable cars, a poorly constructed highway, a football stadium that isn’t even approved, Boeing jets to transport fans, and who knows what else.

If these billions of dollars had been invested directly in Sahofika and Volopooor Be, for example, this column wouldn’t even have been necessary today.

So not only have these billions of dollars been squandered on projects for the sake of my glory (the Ferrari), but what’s more, the real priority projects, even vital ones, have been completely scuttled.

Io izy io. 10 hours of power outages per day today, are you whispering in my ear? Unfortunately, this is only the beginning, mbola ho mafy mafy kokoa atsy ho atsy, as they say.

And then, without water or electricity, you’ll certainly have a nice Ferrari in the garage, but you won’t be able to run it because you don’t know if you’ll be able to wash tomorrow morning, eat, take care of yourself, pay your bills, send your children to school, etc.

Let’s not overthink things and learn to differentiate between what’s a priority, what’s urgent, and what’s important. This is still not the case after almost 17 years of waste and waste.