Life

I board my usual matatu,  my prayer of finding it full is answered. My wish is to get a conductor who can start collecting money from the back and it happens because I am seated at the back and extremely exhausted.... if wishes were horses. By the way i need your views on this.. have you ever wished for a matatu conductor to start collecting  money from the back seats? Did the matatu conductors agree on something about collecting cash from the front seats first?
 I enter into a world of imagination and My imagination quickly jumps to a conversation I had earlier with a friend. 
The first six months have flown and again they were a like storm, too many. We have had to deal with the new government who make new rules and regulations that only pinch us and make our pockets run dry by taking the little cent we have. Do tell how you have coped for the past six months,... June has been swept away by our problem which makes me thinks days are quickly speeding but it's our problems that multiply.... 

" I don't take sugar and salt too, says my friend from my imagination. I have battled with coke and coke has a lot of sugar in it. If my body doesn't need it, why should I take it? "
I gasp in awe because I am surprised he doesn't use salt in all his meals because to me a meal without salt is not a meal, beloved agree with me on this....
For one to cook tasty chapatis, you can either use salt or sugar, depends on who  is making the chapos. I then venture into asking him how he battled with coke for a whole year.
"Coke is very addictive and something addictive is harmful to your entire body. Every single time I stepped in my house that hunger for coke came automatically and I couldn't do go a day without it. It was my diet. I never missed a bottle of coke in my house." 
"Its  all about mindset Medalein. If you decide and set your mind to a specific task , then you'll achieve it and that is how I overcame drinking coke, and taking sugar and salt."

What have you battled with in life? Life is full of surprises they say.... And .... Your perspective and views about something drives your life a lot. How have you made life memorable this June. Have you added "salt and sugar"  to your memories or you have not used it all. 

Take it or leave it...life is what you make it. Make the most of it in July. 
Happy new month. 

Comments

  1. Gracia4 July 2023 at 08:28

    About the matatu conductors,have always wish they give us some time before they ask for the fare not immediately as they....and they also return our change as immediately as they do ask for them.....nice article .Happy new month

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  2. Sena4 July 2023 at 12:47

    A good one happy new month too

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