Fathers are boys who grow up only to find a heap of responsibility nobody prepared them for.

Get to know your father yourself. See him through your own eyes, not through your mother's/aunties' perspectives.

Do this, and you will find a man with his own lost dreams and pain. Only now that I have teenage sons do I fully understand why my father sat on a rock, smoked under a tree, just watching us. He never spoke much or engaged.

A man realizes sooner or later that his people will never see the human he is, so he keeps silent or walks away.

20s and discouraged?

At 19, at 6 am, I jump-started this hydroelectric tractor, hooked a small tanker, and spent my entire day in latrines with no safety gear extracting sewage. The stink of 💩 sticks to your skin

That’s how I supplemented my college education. Don’t give up! It’s just a season in your life. It will end. Take your learnings and use them for the next season.

They laughed and called us “Churas” - when you succeed, they will still find a reason to laugh or attribute your success to luck.

True, the harder you work, the luckier you get.