“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
— Albert Camus, “The Fall”
Most millenials dnt understand me , nonetheless am here to set them free . I have seen most of them go on a misguided mission of parental worship, often financially suicidal . I often ask them , as a parent would you want your child poor for the rest of their lives because they built you a multimillion mansion with their life savings? .
In the Kikuyu traditions it's taboo for children to build their parents a house, infact most of them refused to sleep in any house built by their children,but something terrible happened and it became a norm for children to build houses for their parents .
Dnt get me wrong am not advocating for people to abandon their parents. In most cases this parents are in no danger at all ,what's at stake is just your ego as your friends come to visit . That wood house is in no way a reflection of your faliure, if it's anybodys faliure it's your father who failed to build a house for his wife .
Fill your cup first and let people drink from the overflow . The only people who will suffer when you go broke are your children . Your parents have been poor for 40 years , 5 more years while you get your life in order will not kill them .
Anyway Denis oliech is a national hero and as such the gorvement of Kenya should step in and help.
@jameskamau2766@_stayliquidd I don't trust adults nowadays in punishing other people's kids, especially caning, as they're more mentally deranged. Mtu anatoa stress na mtoto wako. The damage may be irreversible. Society is done changed. We no longer live in those high trust societies.
@O_CHANNI@jumaf3 Much of what you do for them is out of fear of the struggles you're afraid they'd face since you've seen the light. But it doesn't matter to them. Just stop solving all their problems. You'll only feed their expectations and eventually blame u if u don't. Invest for yourself.
For us who were born from poor families, the first task when you somehow make it is to get your parents out of poverty... Buy them a piece of land, build a house, buy them a cow or two... Mostly it is a draining task, but you have to do it... After that, another crazy task is now to decolonize their minds from the poverty mentality... This, I came to find out, is the hardest part.