I haven't been able to pen up a post this year... not because of lack of content (hardly), but my first quarter has been busy, to say the least, just like the first hours of a night preps, before concentration flies out the window.
Speaking of preps, it's been 11 years since I cleared high school and boy have those years flown! You get so caught up with life that you dont notice you're getting older and approaching that age when life really starts. Grateful to God though for that gift.
As I was saying, it's already May meaning the year is almost half way through... no, I aint about to start on that 'ooh resolution this...ooh I haven't done blah blah... I havent accomplished such & such... naah, I don't believe in letting a piece of paper I've drafted myself, to control me. At times, I think it best to just live. So, we aint doing that 'guilt-invoking' write up.... relax. But honestly, I got no issue or problem with those that do resolutions, I was once a disciple of the same, just that I aint no more... to each his own.
Anyhow, I trust that you are well and the rains are treating you well. It was all trolls and memes until a building came tumbling down in Huruma; what a sad reminder of the dangers that lurk. Rudely reminds you that the government really can't help you, neither can your neighbor, at times; only God. But before our good Lord does so, it's prudent that you help You first. Right?
May those who perished in the tragedy rest in peace.
So, what have you been upto yourself? Phill here decide to pay a visit, well a long visit, to elsewhere, just to see how things are done and what life has to offer on those 'exotic' sides of our great land. And what a great land we have. Its my walk-abouts that actually brought me to the realization of the works of devolution, and acceptance of the same.
I remember using some roads, growing up, and how pathetic it would get when the heavens would burst with rains! As a class 7 pupil I would extend my class time after 5 to read on what I hadnt grasped. The cold biting into my flesh as I pulled down my shorts as if they would get longer... my socks streched full-length like a stocking! School was hard!
I remember it would start raining just a few minutes shy to the end of our "upper class preps", as they were called.
Having missed the 4 oclock tea we would shiver ourselves home... teeth chaterring as if clapping for us for our "hardwork" in our studies. Mum had got us a pair of awesome raincoats that became part of my 'backpack family' that also comprised of my textbooks, Bible, dictionary and a water/juice bottle. I called my backpack Zorro! What good times we had. #TBT for those who watched Zorro growing up; we are clocking thate-kitu now... haha :D :D
Zorro had a 'cave' pocket where I would hide my valuables, we talking goody-goody, toffee, patcos, oxford set (most priced possesion), and letters from the then "secret admirers"... felt like a pimp.. haha.. nooo kidding!
I would tuck Zorro well under my raincoat, tighten my shoelace and get ready to run home as it rained. The boy in me wouldnt let me pass puddles of water without splashing on my unsuspecting pals, kick stones and score imaginary goals, slide on muddy tracks...name it! Haha... good old days!
I cant do such those no more... not like I'd want to do it; hahaha. But Its all tarmacked right now. Shops and fruit stalls accentuate the road sides, with street lights towering above them to give the complete montage. It looks beautiful especially at night. I hear these streets have now become prone to date walks and romantic night walks... like those of my campus days when 'hopefuls' would show their gentleman side and walk their crush back to their hostels, then take the looong journey back to their hostles as they monologue, hope, pray.. crossing fingers! Others paid off.
Its what life is all about. Identifying what you want, and going towards it. Working for it. It may not show much, well until later when the foundation-laying is pretty much done. Its only after the slab is completed that the building can come up, course by course till the last nail on the roof. Here my friends, patience is key. The same patience we wait with for Monday to pass by and the weekend can finally get to us! Or that end-of-the-month wait! No?
Whatever it is you do, that's what's yours, whether big or small, that is what you should be proud of coz its what pays your bills and makes your days. Your friends' big jobs can never help you, that's theirs. Be proud of yours. Reminds me of this Safaricom CSE who called me back after I had lodged a complain of my many many GB bundles that had been "eaten" by them.
This Customer Service Executive, I remember, started taking me through that chorus where they try to convince you that 'oooh.. your bundles were consumed by a background system update...ooh.. you must've been downloading a movie..ooh..' you know how that song goes if you have called these guys.
I wasn't gonna let them take me on a Mohombi bumpy ride.. naah.. especially as someone who had worked as a CSE before.. I was ready for them like a mouse trap! And again, even if I was downloading a movie, which I am by the way, but not on my phone... jeez people!!
So Mr. Safaricom guy was getting worked up. I was countering all his moves with that CSE jargon. He never saw it coming. He then resorted to 'dwarfing' me, with professional sarcasm; something that most people dont pick from a conversation. He went like... "my friend, let me tell you, we have handled such cases before and I have people who call complaining to have lost 20GB of data ..."
Wait, what?! Noo he just didnt! I snapped.
I mean, did he think he could cowar me into feeling embarrassed for calling about 3GB while big bosses driving mega guzzlers are making 'eurobond complains'?! I wasnt about to take it lying down.
'Hey hey... easy there Mr. Safaricom. I dont see how telling me about people who lose 20GB while I am making my complaint of 3GBs is any relevant. I know there are people who use 20GB in a day, or in a few hours, but honestly that doesnt concern me. I made a call about MY issue...whether it was 2016GBs or 2MB, my complain is still valid. Address it as it is. Their 20GBs doesnt help me at all honestly; its theirs and rightfully so. My GBs are what concerns me as its what I consume... ok? Kindly address my concern."
Mr. Safcom guy was quiet... I could here him chewing that pie that I had just served him. I got my bundles back to say the least.
Never be ashamed of what is yours, however small or insignificant. It might be 'nothing' to those "rich lords", but hey, their big jobs/cars/houses or whatever are not what or where you eat from, pay bills or treat yourself. They dont help you in any way. Be proud of what you got. No one has the right to put you down. If anything, before they got what they have now, they were once at that beginner level, or worse bruh!
Love what you do, work for it and tend it well.
There's a Jasper lily that has been growing outside my house. I love watching it a times. I am not a fan of flowers but i appreciate a well manicured garden. I water it at times... it is growing steadily but sure. It feels good. It reminds me of a lily back in Nairobi... I been tending it.. and how beautiful it is becoming... my pink sweet lilly.
I will show you one day.
