When growing up my mum would leave us with funny instructions when going out. There's a day she said pandeni miti zote huku watu waseme nilizaa nyani 💀.
The same parents who travel long distances to help/ grieve/ celebrate their friends?
The ones greeting almost everyone from church to the market? They model alot about community and friendship. Alot of us think we're too good for mundane things.
Let's be serious please.
I think our elders didn’t do a good job at modeling how friendship changes from adolescence/young adulthood to 30s and beyond. A lot of us think friendships are supposed to look & feel like they did when we were in high-school & college. & thats just not realistic.
Scenario 1:
So I suspected he was cheating on me with his colleague. I had asked him earlier about her, and he told me that nothing could ever happen between them because of a power imbalance.
Later, I silently created a pseudo account and followed both of them. We had a disagreement, and he decided to take the colleague on a birthday getaway to Elementaita. The lady posted everything, and I saw it on Monday morning at 5 a.m. Instagram stories and all. She even did a full recap. 😂 I never ever texted the babe about this, I was happy she was happy 😂
Scenario 2:
He told me he was going camping. He went to Gura River Camp, which is about a 10-minute walk from my rural home in Nyeri. From what he said, he was going with his male friends. Later, I came to learn that he went with his neighbor, who he had been sleeping with, and the male friends.
Scenario 3:
He was a divorcée, so when things got difficult and he started contacting everyone in my family, I decided to reach out to his ex-wife to find out how bad things could get with him. I was shocked when she told me that he had been trying to get back together with her and work on their marriage.
He also cheated with a couple more people, like the “mama wa curtains” and his house help (mama fua), because he said she cooked good food.
Bottom line, it’s the guys you lower your standards for. He was terminally ill and dependent on medication for survival indefinitely basically for life.
All this was last year, I healed immediately.
I dodged HIV/AIDS by a whisker!
So Russia is banned from FIFA because of their invasion of Ukraine, but America is allowed to HOST THE FIFA GAMES WHILE BOMBING IRAN???
HOW DOES THAT WORK?????
For the first time, I am with President Suluhu on this. Why should she be forced to speak their language? Russia uses its own language, so she would need a translator anyway. Shouldn't she speak Swahili instead, forcing them to need a translator too?
"I can’t be trying to build a kingdom with someone who loves the attention of villagers"
This year we've been eating good with these quotes 😂😂Please continue heartbreaking poets.