I don’t want my daughter to be like me. I want her to speak up sooner. Walk away faster. Trust herself deeper. Apologize less. Take up more space. Ask bigger questions. Dream louder. And if that means she becomes everything I wasnt… GOOD!
‘I don’t know that person well enough to have an opinion on them’ is a very valid answer in many cases, and integral to the art of minding one’s business
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
I asked my junior resident on rounds today: Why do we treat a UTI in a woman with 3 days of pills and send her home, but a UTI in a man is automatically classified as a complicated infection?
He mumbled something vague about anatomy.
I have just seen a message that my ATM card is about to expire ,I haven't seen it for a few years, but once in a while I see it's been used in a supermarket, a petrol station, an ATM somewhere and most often an mpesa in thigio . This is how I know where the chairlady is .mine is to put more money .
The last underwear I bought was a blue underwear back in 1980 after hapo I just find new ones kwa nyumba . The only thing I buy myself are socks and thats because those guys come where men are .
But you have to understand that to get a kings treatment you have to create a palace ,queens dnt live in a circus .