Men, sometimes I genuinely sympathise with MPs and politicians because the financial pressure around them is insane. Give an MP Ksh. 500,000 today and it may not survive ten minutes once funerals, harambees, school fees, medical bills and endless personal requests start coming in.
By the time they wake up, some lazy people are already at the gate expecting breakfast, lunch, supper and transport money, while the usual chokoraas and joyriders trail them everywhere like dogs waiting for handouts.
Unless an MP has a serious, sustainable business or another sharp source of income, things are very bad out here. Politics may look glamorous from a distance, but maintaining that lifestyle can swallow money faster than people imagine.
I believe in the adage that men don't heal by talking, we heal through exertion. For me, I consider emotions signals of a glitch in the lived life, yet the conversational model in traditional therapy is primarily focused on mending the emotion rather than the circumstance.
That's why doing is better than talking it out, because in talking you reinforce the negative neural pathways causing emotional distress. Doing distracts from, mends, and burries those pathways. And in realising one milestone from exertion, the psyche picks it up and relays it to the entire body.
That's how you mend. By doing.