Photo Credits: pixabay.com There are days when you awake suddenly from a deep slumber, open your eyes and see streaks of sunlight penetrating through the corners of your curtain to light up your room. Days when you turn quickly to glance at your wall clock, fearing that you are late again for that important meeting at work. Days when your fear is confirmed and panic strikes you with so much force that it numbs you for a minute. Days when …
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Photo Credits: cilapichaphotography You only become cognizant of how fast time passes when you run into an old friend. And as you bump into each other haphazardly, you feel a certain tingling inside of you – that tingling of awkwardness that slowly mutates into an overwhelming sense of guilt, carefully hidden behind a veil of feigned concern. Your guilt is justified. This is not the first time you have met under such circumstances. The last time you met you were …
Photo Credits: The Photography of Mutua Matheka The clock has just struck 5 in the pm and the sun is almost going down in the west. Within no time, men and women start flowing from their offices and into the streets. Some check into Java for a coffee date. Or a late lunch. Others, too tired after a long day of service in the corporate scene, trudge wearily through the heart of the city hoping to beat the eternal traffic …
I wake up in the morning and what is the first thing I do? Check my phone. I mean, who doesn’t? First stop today was Facebook. Messages of goodwill from across the globe had filled my timeline. ‘Happy New Year!’, New Year New Me!’, ‘New Year New Things!’. So I check my M-Pesa account. Nothing new in there. I go through my Whatsapp conversations. I see a couple of blue ticks. Evidence of intense conversations initiated last year -prematurely ended …
You get home after a long day from minding your own business – or your boss’ business. You freshen up, get changed, then rush to your living room and switch on your TV just in time for the 9pm news. There is your favorite news anchor. Very beautiful. And eloquent. Probably studied hard in journalism school. She says that there is a special feature that night. So you wait. Then enters a politician. Well dressed, with matching suit and tie …
No one prepares you for adulthood. You simply wake up one morning, look in the mirror and what do you see? A fully grown man. With a beard. Or without. Either way, when you went to sleep the previous night you were just a child hoping to wake up at sunrise and play hide and seek with other children. But the plot gets twisted. You awake and you find the child in your house ain’t you, but yours. Yes, you …