The Struggles of Life
by Living sometimes becomes tough; surviving becomes unbearable, your dreams may dim into mere illusions.
STRUGGLES IN LIFE
Living sometimes becomes tough; surviving becomes unbearable, your dreams may dim into mere illusions. Friends may desert you, maybe and probably, when you think you needed them most. Your aspirations may sometimes not be met, a loved one lost, relationships may break and a D-grade may come. In that exam you`ve hardworking, been studying for, and worse of, the six months diluted by the failure of CPAs…..such a list of drawbacks is endless. Cest Lavic, Cest Lavic, The French usually say it. That is life,that is life; the English speakers may interpret it.
Just as the common exclamatory phrase that says “wonders will never cease”, challenges and hardships, which make us ponder with wonder, will always be around us. They confront us daily as we wake, walk, talk and work. Thus it’s only sensible to agree that challenges, like wonders, will never cease.
Remember those moments of kid hood when our clothes were never plenty? Or still if they were enough, they were not as good as those of our friends. We tended to give such petty issues a huge weight. Such an immense weight that we could sulk to our parents for not `loving us appropriately`. This is exactly what we do when life`s hardships come our way. We sulk and lament and worry ourselves out for things we consider very important while in the real sense…..this are just petty fantasies. Only time can tell.
I sometimes retrospect my past and the only reminisce was my playfulness as a kid; the grim reality would however unfold as the day ended. At home, sometimes there was no food. Mum`s hawking business today (I mean then) had yielded nothing. The rogue Nairobi council askaris whose hostility didn’t know that a woman had to fend for her six kids had no business caring. But somehow down the line we still managed to survive and press on.
Most of my campus class mates got a helb (higher education loan board) of zero if not shillings thirty five thousands. The first impression was all awry. Everybody was all complaining. Strange still, those who got something could be heard whining. Two months down the line. The same folks are all okay. They may not openly acknowledge this as a fact. But it indeed is. They still seem to press on.
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