Just for the weird and Happy to be.

A lady I know passed by the office the other day and she is looking for a job. A friend of a friend of hers' sent her to see this guy who is a big shot in a certain department in a well known company.

Everything was falling in place and they met in the chosen location and they talked about her getting a job and before they concluded he wanted to sell to her a different proposal, she was all ears and then this executive goes ahead and tells her that she looks like a good girl who can bear him a child and he would pay her a small salary if she would relocate to a cheaper estate.

Who is prepared for that kind of surprise? With bated breath she just nodded her head and held on to the anger until the meeting came to an end. Since she did not know if this guy was coming through for her in the job department, she agreed on another meeting which was held in a restaurant since it was during lunch time.

When she arrived to meet him, he asked her if she had eaten and on saying no, he asked her if she was interested in eating a boiled sheep head and that was the breaking point. With all that the menu has to offer………

She is still looking for a job as of now

The Simplest Life Possible.

This weekend I had not made plans to go visit a children home that I volunteer at but my plans fell through and I ended up there.

Let’s just say my weekend was one of belly laughter until my stomach hurt.

There is this lovely lady who works there and since she works in shifts, either day or night I found her there and as the day came to an end we went home together. She has embarked on a project of rearing pigs and on Saturday she was carrying the left over food for her piglets and that is what began my laughter.

We give too much worry in things when the simplest plan is usually what works best. My friend put the food in multiple Plastic paper bags, tied a piece of cloth around it and swung it on her back and we proceeded to where we were to take the bus and what got me is that it started raining and since I had a small umbrella I explained to her that it could not cover both of us and her answer is the one that got me bent over with laughter.

She explained to me that she does not have any work for umbrellas and that she never carries one no matter what and she went ahead to ask me why trees don’t use umbrellas and she said that  she had no  time to waste using one.

We got to the bus stop and she squeezed herself in the bus and was so ready to get to her pigs, she was soaking wet without a care in the world. Her goal was to get her pigs fed period and anybody who had a problem with that was not her concern.

I needed the belly laugh, she made my weekend. Simply living.

AMAZING GOODNESS

In 2008 I had become broke such that I went back to live with my parents and I had almost given up and it was so stressful. My brother had to go to Zimbabwe for four months and he needed someone to house sit for him and since I wasn't doing anything I volunteered but he did not leave me any spending money and I believe in God's ability to provide so I packed my bags and went to live in his house.

 On this particular day, I was very low on funds and when I got to the house I had some corn flour but nothing in the vegetable department. I decided to wash my clothes(no laundry machine) and when I was airing them outside to dry on the clothesline I noticed that the garden had overgrown and in my worry that I had to get someone to clear it (meaning me spending money I did not have)  I looked closely and to my delight what looked like weeds was actually a very rare vegetable that only grows in our village and up to today it never fails to amaze me that God actually grew the greens for me when I really needed help.

Two weeks later some high school friends called me up and wanted to come over and catch up and what they had not told me is that they were doing shopping for me to an extent that yoghurt was included in the purchases.

What do you need today? Ask him for help he is available.

STANDING OVATION

I want to take the time and appreciate the individual who came up with the ear plugs, I wonder what kind of noise he encountered until he came up with this invention and for that I take this minute to honor him.

I work in an office that is fairy do what works for you and to hell with everybody else and the earplugs have been a good addition in my handbag and I can't leave home without them, its like someone muted the computer, the traffic sound is stopped downstairs and I am in my space uninterrupted and I can write and for that I am thankful to the inventor.

In my many travel with the train they have helped me relax and read my book seated between two people shouting themselves hoarse and it brings a smile to my face knowing that I have that control.

It’s amazing how much intelligence is in the world that someone can sit and come up with a solution that can be used by many generations to come.

Good and bad must co-exist because if there were no interruptions from sound then the earplugs would be non existent.

UNBELIEVABLE

I went for my lunch break late today finishing up on something important and as I sat in the park, a woman brought her sick child to be prayed for. The child cannot see, hear, talk or walk and the sad part is that he was born normal seeing, hearing, talking and had even begun walking and then one day the mother woke up and that had all changed and now the child is just a shadow of his former self.

The preacher was very passionate praying for this child and then another man appears claiming to be the pastor who preaches in that location and ordered him to pray quickly that it was now his time to preach. People around had their mouth open in shock, how can someone who comes in the name of God be so impatient to be heard that he is not compassionate about the mother of the sick child?

How do you tell the genuine preacher from the fake one?

 A lady in the group could not hold her tongue and asked him why he could not join the other pastor they pray for the sick child and his reply was beyond words. He said that women should not talk when men are talking and that she was not married because she did not know how to submit.

I wish I had more time to witness the child being prayed for and how it ended. My thoughts and prayers are with the mother of the child because it is such a huge burden that she carries everyday seeing her child in that state and not knowing where to get help, I sure hope that she receives that healing for her child.

People in Public Transportation.

I am staying at my sister’s place for two weeks as she and her husband go on a work trip to baby sit her five and a half years old daughter and fourteen month old son.

Since this was a last minute thing we had not made prior arrangements to move my luggage so the other option for me was to rough it and take a matatu (bus).

I believe in the good in people but yesterday I was disappointed, I sat close to the door so that I would keep my bag out of the way but then the problem began when the bus conductor moved my bag to a better position which ended up blocking people getting out of the bus and this particular lady gotten so angry that she kicked my bag and it rolled over and a t- shirt got out to the dirt.

What do you say to that person? Pick a quarrel or just understand that my bag acted as her stress reliever?

As the journey came to an end, people were in such a rush to get out of the bus that at one point my bag was sandwiched between me and a ‘gentleman’.

The only question I want an answer to is, when did we stop caring for our fellow humankind to give a bit of assistance once in a while or just give way?

If you see someone with luggage please give way, let them through.

I Notice You

I notice you every day.

You don’t have to say anything as long as you are in the room I notice you.

It doesn’t matter how many people are in the room, you are the only one  I notice.

The way you breathe and that special smell that is you.

You don’t have to attract my attention because no matter how busy I am,  am at peace knowing that you are sharing my space.

When you are running late I am always listening out for you and when you arrive then I settle down.

You don’t have to speak to me or do anything for me; just you being there calms me down and then I can concentrate on my work.

I miss you so much when you go away; yes I know that I am so angry at you sometimes but any distance between me and you when I know that I won’t see you is torture and I can’t wait to see you again.

You are the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing before I fall asleep. I practice what I will say to you every time you go away but when I see you I become speechless.

How can I miss you so much when you are right here with me?