Coordination and lifestyle

How many things can a person do at a time? The question being in one word, multitasking. Should I leave guys out of this because of the little myth that they cannot scratch and wince at the same time. Someone whispered that from the front row and now it is everywhere. I just hope to meet a guy who can sip from a water bottle while crossing the streets. Oh, they actually gulp alcohol while crossing the superhighway. Tell you something, college guys can multitask. The one thing I have not been able to do so far is coordinate well and I believe there is a difference between coordination and multitasking. You need good coordination for you to multitask. So the first is basic.
Now, my coordination has been so bad, one time I remember folding my clothes to arrange them in the wardrobe and I dropped them. This happened three times consecutively and I thought I had cause to worry. Worry is good if you are going to do something about a situation but in my case I did not know what to. So the issue of coordination became worse. In search of a solution to my motor movement, which by the way affects also how organized you are, I tried skipping with the hope that I would find serenity in motion. Motor coordination does affect how well you lead your life because it is your brain that signals one part to do this and the other that. It is not something you can cram but obviously it can be learned through conditioning. Of course things you do the most are the ones you can coordinate best.  So if you want to add to the list of things you can do, its a matter of learning. How good your coordination is can tell you the extent of your fears. Most of use become anxious and nervous when we are afraid. Being nervous, will affect your coordination and consequently how organized you are. We also worry when we are afraid and worry is among the few things I know could affect your health adversely.
Now, very simple daily routine things are useful in developing coordination. Playing pool table is one good activity that will not just ease your mind but will also help you develop your coordination. Dr. Benjamin Carson uses the pool table to keep up. Good coordination also makes good dancers. I suppose dancing is another way to improve the same.  Emotional health is another vital aspect to coordination. When you are faced with a situation, sort it immediately. Be very honest with your emotion and do not let yourself clog with feelings or thoughts. For me, updating my Facebook status was the way out sometime back. I had enough space to write and write and express then I ceased and almost got stressed. Literally. It feels good to write honestly where there is an audience and if you are not so bold, it is even better where they cannot see you because you say what you have to. You do not however have to terrorize others with your emotional baggage.

The trust issue

My blog reads 'Trust.' I probably intended it for relationships in length but then there is time to determine its content. Thing is I was very serious about posting relationship advice each day. I even thought I could update twice or thrice in a day. Then I realized how poor I am with relationship advice. I mean, people should get into relationships because they are attracted to each other and they love each other. If you love somebody then communication and commitment will wrap it up together. Love makes people want to work things out right? Then they can cross bridges when they get there. It is a journey. I believe every relationship is unique, one couple does not relate in the exact same way as the other.
 Now speaking of relationships, how do you love what you do? That is a relationship too. If you are a pilot or aviation student, you might want to relate well with your plane and trust your plane to work with you. If you are a doctor you have to trust your patient and most importantly trust your own skill to meet your patient's need. The same should be case for engineers and machines, economists and their knowledge. For vocational careers there is an item to trust and knowledge for those in academic careers like myself. I am a student of economics.
The issue of trust is core for whatever relationship you are in, believe it you are always in one or more at any given time. Relationships involve parents, friends, spouses, career and employers among others. So you cannot avoid trust as an issue and you cannot live without it. You have to be trusted by somebody at any point in time in order to work well with that person. Of course being trustworthy in the long run will make your life easier. Now, to gain trust from the other end, you have to offer trust. You trust others in order to be trusted, you have a little faith in someone that they shall not disappoint you. Do not be the kind of person who says "who am I kidding, she/he  cannot be trusted," or "please, that lecturer never gives good marks." For your own sake, have a little faith. Even more importantly, trust yourself that if the other person fails you, there is something to hold on. No one is capable of breaking you when you have faith in yourself and your abilities. It goes without saying that no one can break you to damage if you trust yourself. When you trust yourself, you know who you are and exactly what you can do, you cannot be carried around by waves of whatever situation. If I am an artist who draws, I have to trust my brush in my hand to make good strokes then have faith that the strokes will actually be good. Then trust and faith complement each other in strengthening ones ability to move smooth in life. I do not mean that you won't be disappointed, nothing is as smooth in life but again that is the very thing we work to achieve each day. To make our lives easier, so try to take the most economical path.
All virtue requires one to have faith because they are immaterial. Faith is believing in the immaterial to work in the material. So whether they sound morally streamlining, these virtues are important things in life. Most of it is cliche because it is true and it works for life. Of course we want things to work out for us. It is very important to be real in whatever we do. Trust is therefore fundamental in life in every relationship we have. It is the the way to a free conscience. We need a clean conscience to move forward. It is like walking over a muddy path, your shoes weigh so much they keep you from getting wherever you are headed in good time. They cause friction. At the end of the day we will achieve what we are working for if we incorporate more than just competence. Trust.

Shall we toast to the future?

When we die, another generation shall come,
They shall dig up our bones and call us homo sapiens and homo habilis,
They shall call themselves hom technis and homo civilis
They shall forget that we piled houses one upon the other
They shall forget that we, even we built cities,
O great urban designers,
They shall not remember that the first man was a taxonomist who named the leviathan and the behemoth,
How they shall forget that we harbored knowledge more precious that gold,
That we, whose skulls to them were undeveloped were vessels with wisdom of old,
That we were the species of might renowned,
They shall not remember, their fathers or ancestry,
They forget us, primates of age evolutionary,
They shall refute faith and the believe that we existed like them,
Like us they shall contend and foolishly erase wisdom from the planet,
And so the human race mark times,
Refusing to move forward, because they are home,
We stand at our parties with glasses of champagne,
When what we take is cheap intoxicating liqour,
To ours and our very offspring' s future,
Shall we make a toast to the future?

Your Career is about you.

When I joined college, I did not know what all the fuss about career was. Of course I was aware of the basics, that it would give my life direction and help found my future and that of generations to come. How far my sight was where the term 'future' was mentioned was something like a broad tarmac road with no end. Career talks are very important but for some reason, I was more confused after each one of them than I had sought direction when I began to listen. We could say it is the fact that I was not a serious student or my career instructor was not supportive enough, probably the system where I studied was faulty or the 8-4-4 program is just misplaced. Whatever the reason I believe now that career and motivation are less about the system and those who supports us. Let me make myself clear, I appreciate career guide and the sort of motivation imparted on us by talks and the sort of gatherings we dedicate to our future. Even so, I am for the idea that career paths are mostly about us as individuals. From the outside we only gain motivation when we know exactly who we are and what we want. It is like fuel when we are the actual engines at work. The only difference is, we are not machines, no we do not die off immediately fuel runs out and we can push ourselves up and keep going. Still we cannot work like robots and do all the traditional categories in order to prove our abilities. It is up to us to innately disburse such motivation in the different domains we know. Again I am convinced that such ability is inborn and each one of us has their unique passion. The genius Albert Einstein clearly stated that everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish but its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. We cannot thus be the same yet each individual has the capacity to make a difference in whatever they choose to take up.
I believe in geniuses but I also believe in divinity and the one thing am convinced is that there is no better creation than us (human beings). And yeah I am a creationist. The baseline is we make things happen and it is not things that make us happen. When you decide to take up something in college, you make that thing good. We do not have to take up the almighty sounding courses to prove that we are bright. If you decide to take up one of these, let it be because that is where your passion drives you. If your heart is betrothed to simple lifestyle kind of matters then let yourself go to love and to cherish till death do you part. Whatever you decide to do, give it your all. I believe life is broader than we see and most times we are just myopic, so much so that we fail in perception. It entails everything from what you can give to what you can receive, make sure whatever you offer is of good quality. If you are already somewhere and you feel discontent because you are not where you would have wanted to be I strongly advise you to put greater effort and hard work than beat yourself up because you do not appreciate your field. If you love to do something, keep up the passion and keep complimenting what you do with other activities in your line. Career is important because we cannot live without being occupied. We would not survive the boredom of life. It is just human to want to work. The good news is that it loves you faithfully and pays right back. So do not just be in school because it is protocol and life has put you there so far. Do not be in school because you would otherwise be tilling land or staying home idle. Your career is a priority, it is your bride, your car, your own private jet because it could take you places . It is your wealth, your career is an investment, treat it like a treasure. It is about you.

This is our time

Let us talk school, seems like this will be subject of this blog in this last quarter of the year. And my blog has been most neglected. I am certain we would have arguments over and over if it were alive. Thank God its not, and thank God I have a platform to share my thoughts with audiences every now and then, which are most lengthy and very random. So in all honesty, I would like so much to stand before my classmates and speak my mind out just share my thoughts, but then I am not that bold. Especially this past few days I look at the politicians and think "wow, that is so bold am totally voting for you." There is obviously more than boldness to vote for and eventually we have to choose  candidate anyway. Speaking of voting, I will be voting for non resident student representative today.  That is the very position I would run for if I were political but I am not. Thing is, politics in school, and the sort of dedication to a society this leaders promise to offer, are a challenge. The other thing is, we all, are in college seeking a platform to show the society what we have to offer.
When you decide to take up a career, its because it will benefit you and the people around you. More so, it will develop our country. What we need is the world to know us and the immediate society to acknowledge us, then we can give and keep giving. It is not merely to join clubs in future that we go to school. So that after we have received Mugenda's 'crown' we can walk around so mightily. But we are being nurtured to bring change to our country, to bring technology to our poor people and recipes for our production. We want to live in a good society where we benefit each other. Do not get me wrong, I am not saying that we should neglect our self interest, am just saying that we should incorporate that of our society as well. We all owe duties to this country and I wish our parents emphasized patriotism the way they do success. This is how I view politicians, they are artists, and politics is their means of expression. Each one of us has his own unique way of expressing themselves, it is the essence of talent. Some can sing, others dance, some are very gifted designers, writers. All this talent means only one thing, we need motivation, training, among others, but most importantly we need a chance and time. I think this is our time. We cannot all fit in KUSA as politicians but our institution is large enough. It has more opportunities than we know, I believe this is our time. Its a chance life is offering each one of us to succeed, to be known and make a difference in our country. Let us support one another and encourage one another.

Trust.: School school school.

Trust.: School school school.: I remember the first day momma took me to school. Well, not so vividly but I can't forget these words "It will be over soon." ...

School school school.

I remember the first day momma took me to school. Well, not so vividly but I can't forget these words "It will be over soon." I suppose the statement is familiar with many other people. I had to rise up very early the next day and head for the bus stop, not that I had a problem with being up early, but I had real matters that kept me busy and these were interrupted by school. Playtime, cartoon and the like. Changing routines is also hectic for anyone and it was not any different for me then. Anyway, few days then weeks and I had made friends. I still had my playtime after what seemed as lengthy and confusing attendances for my simple unaccomplished mind. Furthermore, we would sleep in the afternoons and after growing into the schedule long enough I learned to be mischievous. It was the beginning of a long journey. My only issue as I grew up was momma's start off statement. She did not say"oh baby you are going to be here for a long time." Long, is the word, it was the beginning of school and life. Instead, that echoed only in her mind, I imagine her saying "be strong, you need" it or "poor thing."
Seventeen years later, I am still in school. Waking every dawning day to the kind of life momma introduced me many years ago. As I walked to class this morning for a seven o'clock class I could not help but wonder. Life never tells you what will happen in the next fifteen years. We dream about leaving primary school and joining high school to become pretty and hang out with the boys because apparently, we have accomplished academically. On arrival, it is little about beauty and the boys and so much about school, building and accomplishing. Funny how this tact has got many of us to achievements we thought were the end of the world. Then we strive to make it to our dreams and here we are, still dreaming and working towards it. To a great extent, I appreciate the mystery of life. Not knowing what tomorrow holds and going on and on each day. I am grateful for the routine school instilled in me, to wake up early and have a program. Sometimes we get disoriented but fall right back because of that system. At the same time, I realize building is a lifetime process. Well, it could be monotonous but it is life. It is good to stay focused. To keep working and realizing your dreams, little by little. The human soul is like a muscle, it is built through repetitiveness at times and other times through new experiences.
As at now, I am grateful for life, for where I am, for every day. Am grateful for school, what it taught me, for parents and teachers because I mess up often but because they taught few things, it is easy to fall back. So, I do not know where life will take me in the next fifteen years. Am sure my mom did not lie to me, she just spoke wisely, that is the beginning of education. Our parents brought us up wit-fully, they did it for our feeble minds, lest we should be undone. In my dreams to be a professor, I realize to educate others, you need wit. Even when educating adults, your speech should leave room for the mind to understand by itself. At the same time, without abandoning it, lest it directs itself wrongly. I want to teach Economics in different campuses, and inspire young people, share laughter with them and teach minds to be free and wise, because the beauty of having a brain and a mind is knowing how to have fun with it. Oh, I love school, at some point I did not, but I have come to appreciate what it stirred in me. For the next fifteen years, if am graced with life now and after that, it should be a mystery planned for. We do not know what tomorrow brings, so today, we live our dreams and labors. We become what the future holds, cause we live in the future and there is no future apart from which we live now, and no I do not mean waste our lives, I mean build, chase wind whilst building your muscle because life is useless if we look at its content. Its content was made for us, to make us better. So we may enjoy life.

Who is to blame??

I get it, it’s wrong for women especially young ladies to depend on guys for dough and that and that... so women have turned to working and being hard workers and learned to depend on themselves. Again, which is good and with negative effects at the same time. I just wonder, those guys who always think women want from them, financially (note, am not against a woman submitting to her husband or wanting to be protected matter of fact women should submit to they husbands). It’s all the same detestable to wait entirely on guys to make your finances). Am just asking are these men against the habit because they indeed get pissed at women who depend so much, or are they people who don't like responsibility at all. Cause, the ladies aside, you have yourself to deal with. Is your responsibility dependent on women?? Are they the only issue or is there something bigger you need to deal with as a person???

I believe the whole "Miss Independent" thing is a consequence of men pushing so much at women to be their own heroes (stolen). They are so much against the very ones they should protect, and what choice does a woman have but to survive by herself. Apparently men are men because they should take care of women (I don't mean be taken advantage of, which I don't understand either). Instead of taking care of this woman, they take advantage of her. No they don't protect her no more. So how easy is it for her to trust and submit? So they complain much about "women these days" and "women of this age."

So let's face it, the ladies go wrong. WE ladies, but then men have a role to play in it as women have a role to play in men’s' going wrong. It only us on the planet, so someone is responsible for the drama and it’s BOTH of US. Let not men blame it on the ladies and start with admitting to what there is to admit, that they contributed too. Now that's the first take to MANNING UP. Men were made leaders and the heads. Believe it or not, we know that. Unfortunately, women don't want just to be led. We want to be led by someone with direction. We NEED someone we can TRUST.

Now we ladies have our shortcomings, which are of course, more. Far from the blame game, we can't stand if there is nothing to lean on. All the same we should work on our issues and be the best we can. We should be responsible too and know how to treat people and that and that...

Life is personal, but then we need each other. The least is to play our roles the best way we can and pray and beg the LORD to help us know who we are. It is hard to know your role if you don't know who you are. The sad thing is this identity crisis is evident at the most crucial age. It is very rampant in us young adults. Titus 2:6, “young men likewise, exhort to be sober minded.”  I still believe remaining sober in our thinking and general life is the greatest challenge we have. The Bible encourages us to be so we may find direction, but clearly that is what the enemy fights in us most for the exact opposite reason. So we may NOT find direction. Stealing us (by lies), destroying us (by confusing us) and then kills us. Jesus said I AM the Way (finding direction), the Truth (staying sober) and the life (being sustained in who He is so we may enjoy LIFE).

There is no other way but our Maker. 

Till death do us part

When you someone, you should love them for real. Love is not a lie and its no game. Love is eternal and unconditional. Call me the 'what generation is that?' girl but I honestly don't believe at twenty one should be cursing at love and how it don't exist. I mean you are twenty, what can you prove substantially and with evidence that so far ain't proven already? I am not denying that we are brilliant and very intelligent and can prove so much by our very refined brains that so far know only school for occupation. We are without a doubt very intelligent. So we are not at the vows yet but this is the way I think it. Love is till death do us part. We are obviously stuck with our parents and siblings, the family till death actually do us part. So the common question of how your mom would treat you when you break a piece of art in the house. Does she cease being your mom and you break up? If your sis treats you bad and you get into a serious argument over whatever, you always reconcile somehow. The only thing that separated man and God in Eden was death. For God told Adam, in the day you eat of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, you shall surely die. In that day, he died. And death keeps us from love. No there are no types of Love. There is only One Love. It is everything it translates from family to career to spouse. We need love for all that, we just express it to different persons in different ways. So when you love your family enough to realize you are stuck with them till death do you part, then shouldn't you love your spouse in the same way? so that you don't 'leave' at any sign of disagreement. Whoever you choose to love, in case you choose to love, whether its a friend, a family member or spouse, love them with such knowledge. Knowing what love is. Love is strong because God is strong and He is Love.

Trust.: Shall we toast to the future?

Trust.: Shall we toast to the future?: Geekdom When we die, anoth er generation shall come T hey s hall dig up our bones and name us homo habil is and homo sapiens Th ey shal...

Ethnocentrism is a matter of personal growth

So is this who I am? because someone said so??because they did their research based on whatever facts they had and stamped it. Am branded thief, con person, disclaimer and who knows what else. Why? cause of my tribe. I get very agitated at people who make such conclusions and claims which they cannot prove. Such habits are in the least disgusting. What pseud people we have! You should see the confidence some of us Kenyans wear when branding other tribes, not to mention the vehemence in our insistence of how unlikeable they are. If you don't like some tribe just leave them alone rather than fuel hate. How far have we come with this struggle against ethnocentrism. Apparently which is a struggle because you will be forced to live whatever someone wants you to be, but excuse me. I will not live by someone's rules based on ignorance and plain arrogance. And the dust just settled after the elections.I say that because I have absolutely nothing against tribes, they are just groups for efficiency even nature is a good manager why humans are not is another thing.
 Had anyone said to our forefathers, the way you talk could cause bloodshed would they believe for precaution? Maybe that would have saved lives. Yeah it matters what you speak and what comes from your mouth can kill sooner than your tight grip can strangle and faster than your blade can swing to mutilate. I believe strongly by speech you can give hope and life to a person as I also believe the universe was created by word of mouth. That is how much you can give to the universe and the people around you. Your tongue is like a sword an you choose what to do with it. Now a sword is known for its good use in war but it is also useful to those who have it in many other ways. You can use a sword to fin food in the wild as you can give hope with your tongue where its scarce. A sword is a knife serving, you may use it to shape and chop off junk and that means rebuke. Rebuke people and warm them of such danger that may result from their careless speech. Correct them that is building each other and our country as a whole. We ceased to correct each other and speak up where we are offended. It is important that we sort issues there and then so that grudge does not grow like a seething hot rod of iron within us. the tongue cannot be tamed it is your own decision to train it that makes the difference in who you are and what you do. You decide how people will treat you with your tongue by standing up for your opinion. Do not be afraid of refuting a point of ethnocentrism. Moat importantly, let our tongues serve us. Do not bite your own tongue. When you are on the wrong, admit it. We don't need movements to help us deal with our personal issues. I believe ethnocentrism is a personal matter. If each one of us dealt with it. The whole nation has dealt with it. You are Kenya, We are Kenya

Work before play.

So my good friend was right I have become less ambitious. I am becoming less ambitious by the day. She asked me what would you do if you hit the jackpot this very day and i responded "what would I do? I have no use for dough" and she yelled "really??" i was kidding, for real I was weighing her own ambition, and that is not the problem, the issue is what came after that. I actually reasoned in the light of being young and having no use for money, which is stupid and gullible. If you want to achieve something you have to work for it, for you to work for that thing in the first place you have to realize the need you have for that thing. That is ambition, we all have needs. We cannot live without fulfilling such needs and most of the time our ambition is concealed by the mask of parenthood. Simply because we are brought up by parents looking out for us, we are unconscious of our needs to a certain age in life, which should not be after ten. I believe every child becomes ambitious at ten, that being the latest age. Children begin as early as five years old to realize the need to thrive. I want to be a good student, well not exactly put that way but they strive at tender ages to be good in studies and in play. this ambition should never dwindle. Parents should encourage such desires to be great in their children. I have come across parents who clearly shun their kids dreams, knowingly or unknowingly. Whatever little things your baby says, encourage her or him, smile with approval and be proud of them. Try to find interest in whatever they love and be a part of it. As a child grows they become better and you become a part of that. Now my own mother is the greatest encourager of my dreams. Even God encourages people and works with them to give them direction. That is what mentorship does. I am twenty years old now. Working towards a cause. My ambition swayed at some point but its one of the best things I have realized in my teenage and as a young adult. Life is about building, its the only way we find essence. We just have to work before we can play.

This other moon

So April fools came, i was barely aware. I just woke to a new week like any other. Jogged my way to the shower and out and that felt like good exercise,did the rest of them aerobics on my breakfast and then sat to work, in life you have to eat in order to work, then work in order to eat just the order of routine. Those two are like workers taking shifts or batons of the athletes on the tracks, they are like wavelengths on the field...magnetic. Anyway I do not remember what happened on Monday or where i went. i think my memory is fading, literally. I remember though that a friend visited on Monday, the week began and it has been fine. I will not be complaining and its already Friday actually am only mourning the moon, cause i missed out on the opportunity to pull some good prank on someone this April.
well maybe i was part of it because i could not reckon what day it was. all the same everything else is good. Easter, each day. and most importantly, the weekend. I still believe one can get fooled or make fools any other day of the year.