Stories of K

E verybody wants what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money, and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you walk into the room. Everyone would like that—it’s easy to like that. If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say something like, “I want to  be happy  and have a great family and a job I like,” it’s so ubiquitous it doesn’t even mean anything. A more interesting question—a question that perhaps you’ve never considered before—is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out. Everybody wants to have an  amazing job  and financial independence—but not everyone wants to suffer through 60-hour work weeks, long commutes, and obnoxious paperwork, to navigate arbitrary...

"𝐴𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔,𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑝𝑠,𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦,𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑘𝑢𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑘𝑎 𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒." The  first book i read in 2019 was 'the power of subconcious mind',the last book i read was 'the 50th law',in between i had read over 30 books in a span of four months.I felt better,knowledged and smart.But to be and feel are two different things. In quest for self help,i had pushed myself beyond the limit,i rushed into a rogue self revolution trying to kill my thoughts,perspectives and lifestyle.I was trying to install a new way of thinking,a better way,as i thought then.An optimistic world of pure positivity and meaningful engagement.Where did i get?13 months later a cloud of depression was hanging over my head and the "you are better" apparition ...

2019  October a fellow schoolmate named Michelle went out to party and was picked up 2 weeks later in Karatina dead.Mid 2020 3 known washwash dealers disappeard and their bodies were later dumped somewhere.August 21st 2020 Kevin Omwengo was shot at close range in his own living room.April 19th 2021 four friends went to have nyama choma in Kitengela when they were kidnapped and now their bodies are being picked up in river banks & thickets These are people who lived in posh apartments in Kilimani,drank expensive brands of alchohol,threw state of  the art parties,drove audis,subarus & porsche panarema  for Omwenga's case.They wore expensive suits and walked with slim Macbooks,held meetings in Java and Art-cafe all in attempt to con hardworking kenyans except for Michelle's case who tried to be the smart one in the risky pussy-preneurship enterprise. I  call this the "kuomoka" nonsense pressure.We have heard so much about chasing the bag that we are willing to p...