On Friday, I was in some matatu with this old man. He was in his 50s or 60s and he kept whining why the matatu was still not moving and he had been there for a couple of hours. He was visibly agitated and uncomfortable.
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He asked me to check a number that he was supposed to send mpesa. I confirmed and it was the same. He went on with his ranting. I love ranting but I don't love constant ranting like a little bitch. Get your shit together. No one loves someone who complains all the time.
After 15 minutes, the car dispatched and we were on course. Whenever he kept lamenting, i would say "eeeh" to avoid further altercations. I do respect these old fellows so much. After a few kilometers, he told me as a youth, we should use our time well. The current regime...
....is against the youth. I was now interested in what this "old loser" was saying. He asked me if I was voting for Ruto. I asked why. He continued saying that if the youth, the larger population went on the ballot with one agenda and avoid split interests, we would..
...actually realize our dreams. It was after the celebrations in Eldoret of the BBI ruling. He told me he has been around.enough to see people making the same mistakes...voting to punish..instead of voting to make a change. I was now super focused. The old fucker was actually...
...elite. He told me in the 70s when he was in elementary, Kenyatta, the father of that fulltime timid loser Uhuru, was actually fucking up the economy big time. They felt the wave in the 80s. Maybe death is a good thing after all.
He told me he attended Egerton college, now Egerton Uni in the 80s and did agriculture. He then expounded the field further. What he really stressed on, os how big the AFC, Agricultural Finance Corporation for those.who don't know, was a big thing back then. And how...
...it actually catered for the agriculture for many people. I was now intrigued. Then some old fellow on the right, (he was on my left), started saying that greed drives us to our downfall and how we ought to accept the fact. Old ninjas with knowledge. The Egerton graduate...
...was actually really tribal. Why? You may ask. He told me he was once posted to Maseno Uni and the Luos , the goons really gave him a hard time. Bullying him and roughing him up until he took three security with him. One, left the door open at night, (in the rift, we dont...
..actually close the door at night because of good security), and was hit properly on the head. The way he explained was actually funny. "I told.him to be the closing the door. One night, while watching some program in the TV, he was pounced on and hit on the head , blood....
...gushing out and he almost died. " He relocated back. Also, he told me there was this time, he was.traveling to China, and their.flight was delayed in Qatar. And how Qatar was a better country than Kenya. He met many Kenyans trying to make a living, escaping Uhuruto...
...for the bad leadership and economy. He told me, educate the youth to vote on one criteria, not self interests, for the country to move forward. If not, you will still wallow in the slippery field of abject poverty. Unemployment will still be an issue if we still...
..romanticize bad leadership and corruption. We are jeopardizing the future of other generations to come. I was impressed. The old whiny fellow had actually seen things. He was concerned about our youth and he was an old mf. While alighting, i never took his no because..
..of flash torrential rainfall. Everyone was running to the nearest shelter. I had a few km to go still. I was alone now. The reality hit me. If, we, the youth, the larger majority decide to say no to this bad leaders, the thieves, the cold blood killers, the incompetent...
...leaders with finite ineptitude and decide to make a change, our country will move forward. Imagine right now, in this country, the youth we are in danger, being killed by the police, being hit by unemployment, faced by mental health issues such as depression and anxieties..
...suffering from various shitty hits by life, and yet we are the silent majority. What the fuck happened to us? What the fuck happened to resiliency? I even forgot. The old man was rooting for a revolution. He told me the whole system needed to be uprooted. If an oldie like...
...that was rooting for such and he was past 50 years, what of you, miserable youth barely past 30. We need reforms. We need constant ranting. We need transparency. One example, is by one Kelvin alias Osama Otero. He has been vibrant and energetic against police brutality and..
...and the suffering the youth are undergoing. If we have a million such free thinkers and like minded individuals, we will realize change. But of we continue being selfish, waiting for connections, being errand boys for other established people, being groupies and being used...
...by greedy individuals to bad leadership, then we will be forever static instead of dynamic. We should all be objective. Anyway, enough ranting. The effects will be felt later in our lives. One way or another. Adios.
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