Keep on Keeping on

It happens sometime  you meet very special people. You know, the kind of people that make you forget yourself for a minute, well not a minute literally. This person makes you forget about 9GAG, Buzzfeed for me. You text them all the time, you just want to talk to them because they are the most awesome and greatest humans created in their time.

Then after a while you are left. The person who made you abandon Buzzfeed goes cold, goes MIA. They stop texting, and you stop calling because honestly, you were the only one calling unless they were returning your missed call.  A day later.

Then it hits you that probably you should have never dumped Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed is like your partner in crime. Buzzfeed is like the desperate girl who had a crush on you and since primary school, say class four? She will never move on , she will always wait for you to come to her. It is sticky when you do not come back, or she moves on by the time you are back. In this case Buzzfeed doesn`t have funds to run or it has been hacked, which is still very unlikely because some PE just pumped in money.
You now camp there day in day out. You take the Buzzfeed quizzes religiously and share in every social media platform you have signed up.

You even take the screenshots of the results and put them as your display picture on WhatsApp. Because of why? You are trying to make up carefully and tactfully so she does not crash and you have to reinstall again. Unfortunately, she is mad. Your bundles are on fire, unless of course you have WiFi at home and use R.O.G Matatus to town.
Is it true though that R.O.G Matatus are the only ones in Nairobi with free WiFi?

Then one of those days on Buzzfeed you remember you had a blog that you used to write about girls (giggles). Then there you are. You want to write how you are a horrible person. How you turn off people (Is it not  funny though, they turn you on and you turn them off?- such an unfair universe). You tell this to your friends quite often  and they try to convince you that you are not but deep inside you know better, you know best. You are a socially awkward person and cannot keep a good moment going on for five seconds.

Because lets face it,  why would a girl you have been chasing for a year be your girlfriend on Saturday and dump you on Sunday? Hehe!! Aki this life man.
But then you are a grown man. You know this because why else would your brother be asking you for pocket money every Friday? And bundles everyday? This is so scary but what can a man do? You are grown.

You cannot ask your mum for money. Unless your brother has asked for some bailing out and you need bailing too. So you ask for a bailout from your mother and this is how it goes.

"Mum I need some cash for bro and I juu sijalipwa bado"

"Nitatumia ndugu yako wewe utangoja kiasi"

"Mum I need money juu ata kesho naenda church."

"Na hua unatoa tithe?"

"Bado, but nitaanza. Mum sasa nitasurvive aje?"

"Mimi sijui, mungu ndio anajua."

You know this is funny and you laugh and forget you are broke for a minute but she does not berge, she is as serious as Sossion, you can read from her lips. You leave for Saturday errands because God knows and God never lets you down.

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You go to class and you really enjoy the classes because nothing really turns you on like new knowledge. In class people  say you have changed because you don`t hang out with them. Hehe! This is funny because it`s not that you don`t want to, you just do not have money, that money is someone`s upkeep these days.

You go home to finish some series you were watching and Alas! You find mum has left you some cash, because she is who she is, she is mum.

So this post goes out to you out there. You find yourself alone most of the time. You think you do not have a social life. Everyone has opinions about you. Do they matter? Is that your identity? I don`t know man.
You may not have discovered yourself yet, you are learning and observing. It feels like you are trying to balance life on a plate but you have
shaky hands. Do not be afraid because at some point time it will fall. You just have to kneel down put the pieces together and carry on.

You have to keep on keeping on.

Valentine's Hangover

I am probably the unluckiest man on the planet, not extremely but yoh, people are very unlucky out there. They say, it's a jungle out there!
I'm unlucky ONLY in this doro Valentine's sh*. Other aspects of life I'm quite lucky. Like lucky being single and all. I hear that while I was busy watching that old Percy Jackson movie, on my phone, my supposedly crush and future Valentine's date was busy posting photos on Instagram with her significant other.

I don't know what you think about that but I'm quite sure, that St. Valentine did not die for these kind of scenes. I understand the fact that 14th Feb was not meant for romantic kind of love only, even brotherly, family and societal. Bromance can also be celebrated on this lovely day. No?

I tried to figure out the main reasons why I was watching Percy Jackson, alone. Well at least why I was not getting some on Saturday
First, I think Percy, (not Percy Jackson)you seriously cast a spell on me or something. Imagine from that time, I have not been able to create any creative pick up line. I have just been traumatized, seriously I don't even know. I can't even think straight when I think about your name. When I think about you, I have to listen to dorobucci to bring me back to life, back to my senses. I just have one thing to say to you, rather a song to " say" to you, Adelle's Rolling in the deep. 

Speaking of pick up lines, I was walking in town the other day after school. Then I walked past this click of friends who were probably KEMU students, because they seemed really comfortable around that area code of KEMU towers. I really was not eavesdropping but I just got to hear this talk, " Imagine I just had to stop her and tell her I know her from IG." The pals were like "for real?" , "yeah man, I just had to" he answered enthusiastically.
There are so many things wrong with this dude, I won't even say what Njoki Chege said about Kenyan men on Instagram. But that's none of my business. My issue with all this, is that if these are the pick up lines of today, I do not belong to this world anymore. I lived ages ago. So what happens to those beautiful girls who are not on Instagram? And that also means we men who are not in IG do not have pick up lines. Sad story.

Ladies, you know we love you, sorry I have to say this. When I say I like you I mean it, when I don't say, it does not mean I don't, so no need to push it because there is a probability I do not. (I have a feeling I should shut up) But one more thing, I enjoy beautiful company and good music. In beautiful there is blonde, they can go together, and they can also go individually.
Work hard for beautiful to have prominence. If I start a conversation with you, I do not want to hear your lame boyfriend stories, I just want a mature conversation, get rid of the blonde. A world can't just revolve around one person can it? We would have one two many worlds then. 

Why I was alone on Saturday.

As I write this, I'm still trying to get over the many movies I've watched this weekend, Monday here we come!