All-time Braggarts
A humorous piece that will leave your ribs aching!
Everyone has some selfish tendency of attributing good things to themselves. Even if what we have is a far cry from being the best, we still deem it unique and outstanding. Everyone considers themselves extraordinary and this should be some forgivable natural phenomenon. However, what can be said of the folks who boast about anything under sun?
Such guys won’t hesitate to put it clear that they went to Alliance High School when no-one of their tribe was going there! At the slightest hint that someone is out to challenge the authenticity of such utterances, the fellows will add that they later joined Makerere University from where they graduated top of their class, a well-known prominent man being their desk mate. They even give you the big man’s number to call for proof!
When such fellows make phone calls, they will speak irrelevancies with motives of bragging to those around.”How is America, my daughter? Do you have your limousine or has it been stolen? Is your husband still pursuing his PhD at Harvard? Is my granddaughter still attending the best elementary school in Washington?”
What is more, such people often take to lying to quench their tall egos and spice their braggadocio. “My daughter is only two years but she speaks impeccable English!” At these point you can’t help getting shocked because even the potbellied old man can’t speak say anything in English apart from a broken sentence here and there, which is of course a clear mixture of English and some unknown mother tongue!
The fellow continues, “my son is only four but drives me around town on weekends!” Now have you not certified that this guy is a chronic braggart?
The Swahili people have an adage that goes some like “good things display themselves while mediocre ones require to be boasted about. Let us see for ourselves or hear good things spoken about you, but not from you. Even the Bible rebukes arrogance and conceit.
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