Tsumo

Kugara mwina / kutevedza ungoguma. (M)

Shona Definition

Kunyange munhu ogarika zvakanaka zvikadii zvinoti zvigume chete nerimwe ramazuva. Kana izvi zvaitika, anobva akumbana navamwe mukutambudzika.

No matter how comfortably a person is living, that comfort will one day run out, and then he finds himself suffering alongside everyone else.

“Quoted to stress how fickle good fortune is — it may favour someone for a while and then abandon him, since nobody escapes mortality.”

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This is a variant of

Living is like a burrow in the ground: follow it far enough and you reach its end.