I had missed you fam. I rarely go all feely and touchy on
people but it’s been seriously a while. I guess sometimes life just happens,
but in my case it has left my English all rusty and all my subtle humor seems
to have flown away too. Well my sabbatical is over (allow me to call it just
that), but am back now, more calm and collected, cultured some may say, but for
the few who will stick around I make a solemn promise to continue making
stories come to life on this page.
Moving on, I have always wanted to go the other way, when
everyone else was being washed away by the current, but wanting and going the
other way are two different things, so different that those who know me would
wonder when did I ever go against the current. I am an avid supporter and
propagator of the new constitution, especially anything and everything to do
with devolution. Devolution Is just the (majimboism) of our own Kenyan sons;
Ronald Ngala, Masinde Muliro & Daniel Moi (who went through a paradigm
shift in political thinking), which unfortunately had to be accepted 50 years
later. One wonders why it took us 50 years for us to truly realize what was
really good for us? But isn’t that how we all ultimately live our lives, each
day discovering new things and new ways of doing the same old stuff,
discovering new options.
Options? Many a time we earthlings feel stuck in life, with
the same boring job, boring local joint (the pre cursor to the weekend
shenanigans), boring friends, stuck up girl/boy until Kaboom! You make new
friends and they show you a new joint (where the waitress is lively and doesn’t
dress like she missed class 101 at Utalii College) and the nyama choma guy
knows what KILUMA is? (If you don’t know, then you’re stuck up too), You hook
up with some new chic who isn’t always hang up with how much PS4 you play,
better yet she tells you to scoot over. Oh and she takes her whiskey neat! ß Research shows that you only meet these ones after
every 201 days! #Sigh. 201 days? Huh? That’s what I also asked, don’t worry.
Having options, keeps us alive, it always keeps us second
guessing ourselves, keeps us on our toes, but most importantly it steers us
away from Pastor Kanyari’s Christian rhetoric’s, the hogwash from our leaders
that they’re doing their best to safeguard our security and the hope that if we
continue doing what we did yesterday we will get different results.
As I write this am craving some serious whiskey , but I realize
I need to create options for myself, for now, after a life of sticking to the
plan, you eventually realize that the glue wanes in strength after sometime and
you have to sit and rethink (or stand, if you think better while standing),
wiggle out, because that’s what has to be done, because its human nature, its
in-built – We humans are not meant to be stuck or feel stuck, We are meant to
have options in life.
“You have as many
options as you give yourself.”
Kasie West
P.S: Its been a while since I wrote, so forgive any literary
errors.
