Nimekumbuka zile hesabu za primary za Post Office letters buana. Ati one word 5 bob mamae. Sasa kama ningekuwa nataka kusema "Ruto must go" ningeandika "WANTAM" ndio nisikuwe overcharged. Thank God for technology mahn.
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
— James N. Mattis
The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
silently crying in the back of my uber and the driver turned around and gave me this stick of gum before saying in broken english “u will be okay tomorrow, today u can be sad”
Normalize being very direct, very straight to the point and very assertive. A surprising amount of tension in adult life exist because people avoid saying what they actually mean.