MAY THE BRIDGES I BURN LIGHT THE WAY

Its cool outside, a slight draught through the window blows and booming music from the miraa den close by pierces through the night. It's quite late a little past midnight and the mood is kinda nostalgic, reflective of the events that transpired today. Well my nostalgia is induced by my bumping into an old pal today (he has metamorphosed into just an acquaintance nowadays), and it reminded me of the days gone and the good memories made that fade with each passing day.

Some fool jolts me from my reverie of thoughts with a text "Turn up the music,turn down the drama" Where you at? Well I ignored for nothing good ever happens after Two O' Clock they say, but I pumped up the volume...lyrical Wale is spitting out some  sentimental stuff so I turn the volume a notch lower and the nostalgia sinks right back again...sigh!

Am getting a bit too reflective now and am reminded of how each day, life seems to shape out differently.My thoughts get deeper and the lingering damning thoughts about the future and how the past shapes the future with or without your consent sink in their anchor firmly.I guess we are forced each day to change our mindset and  our ways just to remain relevant in a rapidly changing society and thus arises the need to constantly burn old rickety bridges and build new ones with better designs and structures with the hope that they will last their use.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories but find yourself moving on. It’s perfectly normal I guess and that's the beauty of life...that we don't know how we will change and when we will change.

'Adapt or die' they say, am reminded of the movie Money-ball, if you haven't watched it, you're depriving your mind the chance for it to be opened up especially to the idea that change is inevitable. Billy in this movie (the starring) tells the head scouts of the A's (baseball team) that if they want to win they either adapt or die and adapt they did, and from that they thrived, though they didn't win that season.Their management of baseball was adopted by many other clubs even today. I re-watched this movie a couple of days back and it reiterates the fact that life will never be "business as usual" if change is necessitated either by a sudden feeling to recreate ourselves to achieve our goals or by circumstances.

And so I have burned so many bridges along the way some necessitated by circumstances and some by the need to be constantly re-inventing oneself to achieve new bigger goals.Its hard when life as you know it has to change.Uncertainties creep in on whether we made the right decision but then again we should believe in the PROCESS because it is a process.Trust the process and the process is never easy because if it was easy then there would be nothing to it and everyone could change on a whim."Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart....live in the question"- Letters to a young poet.
Kill those bad habits today,leave that toxic boring job because life should be fun and full of constant good change but most importantly burn those bridges that are rickety and unfounded. Am reminded of these words, "Take me as I am...or Watch me as I go" .Pleasing to the ear I guess,but hard on the implementation.

there would be nothing to it and everyone would change on a whim - See more at: http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2011/10/20/moneyball-inspires-innovation/#sthash.dhjMQa91.dpuf

DARING TO DREAM

Finally I’ve put together a few words together, formed sensible sentences and made what I have described in my head as a good read. 

Finally I have broken my blog-ginity (that’s dumb right), anyway here’s my two cents from a newbie, self proclaimed writer.

 It’s funny how sometimes we think our problems are specific to us,
( like last week was having some serious flu and was about to buy those handkerchiefs they sell on the roadside when I saw this fly mama I have been eying for a while head to the hawker I was with  to buy what I thought was going to be pk so I asked for pk instead only to find that she asked for the handkerchief for herself)-I dint think pretty mamas buy handkerchiefs from the hawker too…
,how we think we are the best at what we do … but it’s how we usually think our dreams are the ones that are going to come true that sometimes amazes me.

Life has a way of putting us in check. This usually doesn’t happen at the right time but at the universe's time - it sucks I know, but that is just the way of the world. They say the past comes to haunt at some point in our lives and that is why I don’t take to heart today’s youth mantra YOLO (you only live once). This mantra always applies especially when you are about to do something very stupid which you most probably don’t approve of yourself. I honestly think this mantra should come with a disclaimer too - YODO (you only die once) or you’ll regret this for a long time but that’s just me...rumblings of a realist!

Dreams keep us sane from all the madness and failures of the past. I guess everyone has that one thing that if they could turn back the hands of time they would have done things a little bit differently.

All great men as we know them today dared to dream and that is what made them stand out from the pack. I don’t know of anyone who wouldn’t want their names to live for decades on after they are gone...it’s human nature and that is why kings built statues of themselves, presidents imprint their faces on currency etc. There is a better way of making a legacy I think, and that is daring to do the impossible -DARING TO DREAM. History has shown without any doubt that those who dream t especially those who dream wildly (you know what I mean) and realistically did what we deemed the impossible! You only have to look at the Martin Luther Kings, Christopher Columbus and back home our own Wangari Maathai's, Joseph Mwangi (He says equity bank is going to be bigger than Kenya’s economy some day-story for another day_),Ringtone (laughing all the way to the bank=was a street urchin once) and many more who prove to us one day the rewards of daring to dream not only big but realistically.

I think the greatest mistake of the 21^st century is the way we have attached a lot of importance and coverage to the success stories of today and the times past. That’s why we always think yeah I can do it, but I think we should also here the stories of the great failures of modern times to. It would save some of ya’ll dreamers lots of heart aches caused by failed projects and abandoned dreams. We always want to hear positive things but there is a lot to learn from the negative too, so don’t shun the negative story today it might make you not undertake that new project (saving you lots of money along the way) ,might make you just stay in employment and not rush into business start ups, might even make you put off marriage for a while!

Anyway for those who thought that dreams alone count, they should know that there is hard work and dedication that follows as we try to make our dreams into reality! Hard work and dreams are tied to each other hip and bone...that is the only downside of turning our dreams to reality but as they say nothing good ever came easy or cheap and if it did be sure it is no good. I believe history is the best teacher and those who don’t learn from it are bound to repeat the same mistakes. Some dreams we share, some we keep to ourselves for fear of them being watered down but I reiterate that if we always dare to dream there is still hope, so dare to dream today and you will not be disappointed. Trust me!