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Hello Stranger,
I don’t know you & you don’t know me but I’d like to tell you that I see you. You’re probably carrying a heavy weight right now and going through the most; life has been hard on you lately.
But don’t despair and don’t give up.
Time comes in this life & things become heavy. And because you’re used to being the strong person, no one sees your pain, no one sees that you’re quietly falling apart on the inside and no one sees that you’re considering giving up.
I’m just here to tell you that you do not have to carry the burden all by yourself.
It is absolutely okay to be tired. It’s okay to feel confused and lost. It’s okay to be discouraged and it’s very okay to be overwhelmed. Life gets tricky & struggling does not make you weak or wimpy - it simply makes you human.
Your goodness & worth are not measured by how many good days you have or how productive you are. It’s not about how well you mask that pain or how much money is in your bank account.
You’re worthy & you matter simply because you exist - that’s it. Even on the days when you feel broken, confused, lost, unwanted, or emotionally exhausted, you’re still deserving of kindness, peace & love.
And if other people can’t give you that kindness, peace & love, at least give it to yourself.
Dear Stranger, please be gentle with yourself. Rest as much as you need to. Cry as much as you need to. Start over as many times as you need to. Healing is not a straight line and no one tows the same path.
And even if it doesn’t feel like it right now, there is still plenty of good ahead of you. There are many conversations that will make you smile again, opportunities that will restore your hope, and people who will appreciate the burden you carry.
You’ve survived every difficult day up to this point - pat yourself on the back. That strength is still inside you, even if you can’t feel it today.
Dear stranger, I don’t know you but I���m rooting for you. ❤️
I WILL EVENTUALLY LEAVE KAMPALA BECAUSE OF NOISE & THE CIVIC COLLAPSE OF ITS DWELLERS *Long Read*
Readers of this TL might recall that I have lamented noise pollution in Kampala for years!
I therefore speak of leaving not casually, and not emotionally, but as a sober conclusion reached after years of living in a city that has steadily lost the capacity to regulate itself.
Living with a heightened sensitivity to noise, Kampala generally, and my own neighbourhood specifically, has become an environment of constant sensory assault.
New Year’s Day is merely the worst of many predictable days when the city dissolves into unrestrained chaos. Police has mercifully just stopped the latest noise assault of my noisy neighbors. Yet in the distance I can hear noise at bars in Najjera and Kira. I am writing this as a way of coping with the fact that I am unable to sleep because of the noise. My head throbs.
Anyway, what is often described as “noise” is in fact only the most audible symptom of a deeper malaise. Kampala’s disorder is not accidental, temporary, or even primarily infrastructural.
It is cultural, civic, and attitudinal. Roads, waste, public space, and sound are treated not as shared goods requiring restraint, but as territories for individual assertion. The result is a city that grows louder, dirtier, and more ungovernable with each passing year.
At the core of this dysfunction is a failure to internalise what city life requires. Urban living demands habits that go beyond language or formal education: respect for strangers, an understanding of limits, the discipline to restrain oneself in shared spaces, and an acceptance that one’s freedoms are bounded by the presence of others.
Like my friend @TimKalyegira continues to say all these years, Kampala has urbanised demographically, but not civically. Many of its residents despite speaking English and navigating modern systems remain psychologically unequipped for a modern urban life.
The uncomfortable truth is that the vast majority of Kampala dwellers suffer from that hapless, unformed, clumsy and clueless “Nakawunde” phenomenon we used to call “maalo”
Common day examples would include things like; parking on the pavement, littering, jumping queues, not following traffic lights, think of the Nolywood comedy Usuofia in London!
While I still lived at Sunset Apartments, I saw a resident keep a live goat somewhere on the 3rd Floor for weeks! I say nothing of live chickens because that was fairly common. One random morning you may rudely awakened to a crowing Cock.
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Please guys, do not inherit age-old unhelpful rivalry; if you can fight on the street, fight, if you can talk in boardrooms, talk, if you can contribute to bail do, if you can anaylse, keep at it.
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