Appreciation

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. So often are we caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it.

Just as music makes your body subconsciously move to beat, showing our appreciation means, banishing all thoughts and the mind is wholly consumed by those beats! Let us be grateful to those who make us happy, for they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Guess What?

Life is not usually that glamorous as potrayed when you are sixteen! Albeit having no care in the world, hormones raging left, right and centre, your body having a mind of its own as it changes biologically to the peak point of adolescence. It arouses feelings that tempt one to unleash them, so as to have 'fun' most of the time! But then again, life at 16 years of age has its low moments. Every teenager would tell you that they are experiencing some kind of pressure. It could be either from one's parents, relatives, friends, academic institution, religion or peer-pressure! 

The kind of life one assumes in early adulthood is determined by how a teenager sails through teen-hood. With such kinda pressure weighing down on a teenager, without discipline and a guided mentorship programme, the teens early adult life would be greatly compromised. As an African, our immediate family relatives always monitored our behavior as we grew, so as to curb or rather tame any misbehavior. The girls had 'aunties' who, under a mother’s permission, teach the girl how to behave and conduct oneself from the onset of her first menses. 

One is cautioned and warned not to be too cosy with or around the boys, as now, the body has transformed and blossomed into this beautiful and 'ripe' young woman. All of which, any opposite sex person would become sexualy attracted to you! The attraction is good because you are deemed desirable but very dangerous because, the girl is taught that her body is 'sacred!' and cannot be 'misused!' She should value, cherish and treasure her body till a suitable suitor comes along to ask for her hand in marriage.

Ooooh...those were yester years! How times have changed! So much that only a selected few, especially those in the rural areas, follow that tradition to the letter. A few try to uphold the same despite residing in urban areas. We nowadays send our children to boarding schools and abroad for further studies where they are exposed to all manner of cultures and broad-minded teenagers and adults! As if that is not enough, technology has also hugely contributed to the influence and spread of all manner of behaviour and character imitation. Entertainment joints too, are sprawling up almost every other place where our children are sucked up to drugs and prostitution in the name of having fun!

As teenagers, they have this great ability to absorb information and change and as Bob Dylon said "if you're not busy being born, you're busy dieing!" To me, happiness consists of comfortably being where you belong as you go through your everyday life. So... God grant me the STRENGTH to change the things I can, the COURAGE to accept the things I cant and the WISDOM to know the difference! Amen!

Sweet 16!

How many out there can reminisce way back when they were 16years of age? Humph! nostalgic moments they were! No care in the world, fantasies and dreams galore and literally at the peak of teen-hood! As a young girl, I remember how gorgeous and sexy I was. Oh my! My skin was supple, tight and tender, so were my boobs! I thank God for my genes for I like how my body has responded since, when I was 16. Many ladies out there are glad with all the innovation and technological advances, especially in their skincare products, which has done a remarkable job in ensuring that "this" sexy, supple, tight and tender body defies natures order of advancing years.
 

The skincare products have been personalized from age group to different parts of the body, especially the face and neck! i.e from the basic (home) beauty regime to the more sophisticated high-end age defying beauty regime. If that isn't enough, one is a surgical table away, for some nip and tuck, so as to have that "perfect" body! 

All this is in an effort to always have that forever young feeling. Its an amazing feeling and the amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. Freedom to be have what everyone wants from life, that is, continuous and genuine happiness.

Still... Someone Special

Usually when two people are together for a long time, things seem to change. It's been 16 and counting years..., of the said nothing good lasts forever but this love gets better every day! We get all excited inside every time that we get alone. He still got love in his eyes..., and I still got love in my soul.

Its amazing how still it feels like the first time we met that I kissed and I told him "I love you". We still have fun like teenagers even though we're grown and married with kids! We still talk on the phone for hours when he’s away and he still spoils me every other day. Leading to everyone asking how we make it last. I tell them, I still..., he still..., we still got mad love for each other!

I still smile in the morning, when I realize I'm still in his arms. We know everything about each other, but we still keep holding on. We're never gonna break up coz we'll be always there to make up as long as we stick together. We'll climb higher coz I'm gonna ride with him to his career peak. Our love is never gonna end, we're on fire!

We go through problems just like everybody else, but I really don't mind coz it makes us keep it fresh. He's my lover, my babies father, my lifetime partner and my best-friend. He’s still the man of my dreams, he's still the man for me and I'm still in love him. I Love you Mbaruku, soo deeply!

Odyssey

When one tries to visualize the future, usually, you will notice that there's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. An odyssey of some sort. Much as they are usually referred to as 'good' or 'bad' people only some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding rather than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each others hearts... nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.

That is how we humans see each other in our course of life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions that are within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. But then again, add to those distortions, to our own egos and the corresponding distortions in the egos of others! MY MY MY... do you see how cloudy the glass through which we look at each other becomes?

That's how it is in all human relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts!

The made-up mind

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of our greatest pains, become our greatest strengths. We gain strength, courage and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... where, we MUST DO THAT which we think we cannot. 

The feeling is indescribable, almost nauseating! In recent times, when I dared to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, it then became less and less important whether I am afraid or not. It is at this point when it dawns on you that our strength grows out of our weaknesses. 

To quote Mahatma Gandhi on this matter, he says “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

WOOOW!

Wow! I did not intend to stop blogging right after Ramadhan but HMPH! Not for over five days! No more procrastination! I promise to try harder... ;-) The good thing is that I am liking this new interface that Google Blogger has upgraded to. It is quite interactive, engaging, friendly and shows you all the 'happenings' within your blog(s)! WOOOW! Congrats to the team! Excellent work and keep the creativity alive!

At this rate, it makes me wonder... how would the cyber world be by the time my five-year-old daughter is a teenager? With innovation that keeps changing the face of design, its my prayer and hope that Mola anijalie maisha marefu yenye afya na uzima nipate kuona vitukuu na vilembwekeza, nione vile teknologia itakavyo kuwa imesongea na hasa hapa nyumbani Kenya! Ameen!