GETTING WHAT YOU WANT

Lines of unpararelled thoughts sometimes cross my mind and writing does sometimes make the jigsaw puzzle fit!

I think I’m in love with India Arie and Adele! Adelia? Ariele? Indele?  Whatever a perfect blend of the two of them would be called would be called would be called would be insignificant as the bard once wisely quoted “a rose called by any other name would still smell as sweet “I will  one day be a male version of them, just wait and see! I have a congenital predisposition to sweet voices, to songs that give me that stirring awakening, that make a reverie my true and absolute existence even if only for a second.

Yesterday or the day before (the lines between days are blurry) I was watching castle. For those of you who don’t watch it, Richard Castle is a crime writer and Detective Kate Beckett is of course….a janitor:-) Together they solve murders and mysteries. Castle and Beckett have a complex relationship. They have feelings for each other but they are both stubborn, especially Beckett and she goes ahead and gets a boyfriend albeit she still has feelings for Castle but he still stays around dodging bullets and putting his life on the line just to be around her which made me think about two things.

1.      Do we think with our hearts or heads

2.      What would we do to get the one thing we want most in life

3.      Why doesn’t he just buy her dinner and tell her that he loves her like all the regular men out there!!

Reading a little while back, there were several articles on the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. . Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity! That’s what I thought for a long time till I figured that sometimes fighting is necessary to get what we want especially when long serving presidents do all but name themselves rulers for life. Egypt, Tunisia, Libya all have had uprisings with power being given up in the first one, the second president had to be fished out of his den and Gaddafi has even gone as far as becoming a vocabulary. Had this been the beginning of Moi’s era he would have accurately say that he would Gaddafi us for twenty four years and rig numerous elections, teach and entrench the culture of impunity into our legal, political and social fabrics until he was tired of the job; He did a lot for Kenya though:-)

 As inspiring as the stories were they were also saddening. There was the brutal crushing of rebellions in Libya under the DICtator Gaddafi. There were the refugees being turned away from Chad under threats from the Libyan government since there is already political tension between the two countries. There were the numerous idiotic bombings of the U.S in Libya after they instituted a no fly zone and the numerous civilian casualties that came as a result. There has been the economic valley that the rebellions have plunged their countries into. A month’s fight has costly effects to the G.D.P both directly and indirectly. There is the political vacuum left in Egypt and Tunisia and protests and bloody clashes do go on as an effect of leaving the country under army rule; not to my knowledge has that ever ended up well, look at Museveni as another shining star in that category.

Some of the guerilla fighters interviewed were ready to go as far as dying for their cause. Many of these people had no military training and ranged from teachers to doctors, all united in one cause. Some of the other people interviewed thought differently. One lady who owns a shop on the outskirts of Tripoli said that she preferred Gaddafi since they had already experienced him and were used to him, he is to her the devil she knows. Another shop owner said that the young men should go home as they were ruining business for him (and the coward dares think that that his genitals automatically gives him the right to use the name man!) I do laud the lads for fighting for what they believe in. if starting a strike in a university is so much drama and takes the brave and(or) stupid, overthrowing a government needs more than bravery, it needs heart!

Sometimes fighting to get what we want can be a mini uprisal of some sort. It may mean fighting demons from our past, it may mean sacrifice and let’s not forget that the amount of sacrifice we make is directly proportional to the gains that we make. It may mean that we give up friends, relationships, social lives, lifestyle and mindset. It may mean ridicule and a lot of people who stand under you making their two cents known because they don’t understand you. It may mean that there will be rain (lots of it!) before the eye catching refraction of light rays through the tiny raindrops that start with Richard and end in vain.

We all generally know how to get to where we want to but the question is the question is: are we ready to go all the way? (At this point I will ask you to ignore Katy Perry’s definition) if I resolved that in one year I would have a million in my account and put my all into it, I would make it happen. We don’t need Oprah, Tyra or Joel reinstating what we already know while making a killing out of it: you can make it, believe in yourself, work hard, spend wisely!! There are basic rules by which all the earth plays by and we know them all. If bullets kill people then spoons make people fat! We are responsible for a lot of things that happen in our lives we might as well start taking control. If you want to lose weight get your lazy ass off that sofa and jog! If you want to pass, read! If you want a relationship to succeed, work on it! If you one day want to go to Paris, save! (usiombe serikali) if you want to reach early for school, leave early. If you want to be more knowledgeable, read!

As soon as I figure out the thing(s) I want to do most in life, I’ll go for it hard, like a tiger would:-) we only get one life to live. It is approximated that during the span of Gengis Khan’s conquests which was till the day he died and the provinces he had carved out were delegated to his sons that about 40 million people died. The fact that we still mention his name now means that he did something about his dream to achieve. The founding father of Mongolia and king of Eurasia was believed in the means to an end teaching and though I don’t support his view of lives being expandable, he is a success story (in a twisted sort of way)

I’m not quite sure if all of this had logical flow but there is a message somewhere in it(At least i hope so)

To heck with dreaming big, BE BIG!