HEART-FELT VERY SERIOUS LONG POST ALERT. Facebook friends, close friends,supporters and MOST IMPORTANTLY anyone from a humble background/poor family/facing challenges/rejected/kicked out/homeless, today I want to say I am saddened by the rate at which many of of us are loosing hope in life and giving up. My heart is bleeding and breaking for this special category of young people. Many of us are Walking out on life , throwing our arms in the air and calling it quits. I know you have hustled, tarmaced, cried, begged, borrowed, called people, sent text messages, applied for jobs, slept hungry, gone to church, prayed fervently, sort connections. Despite that you have probably been turned down for that job, threatened with a notice to move out, locked out of your house by your landord, kicked out by parents, kicked out by the school for fee arrears, told you will never make it, that you will NEVER be good enough, even sidelined by peers for not fiiting in with the crew, have been disappointed, been given hundreds of empty promises to be helped and assisted and now you are at the end of the road.You have no more energy left and are now saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, I QUIT. Before i say anything else let me say FRIENDS, I HAVE GONE THROUGH ALL THAT AND WORSE! (Some of you will not believe it) The one thing i never did through it all was to finally call it quits. I tell you i let go several times, i threw my arms in the air many times, walked away countless moments but the ONE THING I NEVER DID WAS: CALL IT QUITS. I never knew what my days would look like, my tomorrow, never even had hopes of joining campus infact I remember mum would tell me ( Mtoto wangu, kupita ni kweli umepita lakini sasa utaenda aje university? Uutafanya law kweli? and she would let out a faint laughter, My strong response would always be Umeona mimi nikiwa na Stress? Msijali venye nitaingia campus mtashtuka Friends I promise you at the time I was saying these words I had been hustling for 5 months in 2012 walking around Kawangware looking for a school to teach to no success, one school headmaster laughed me asking me what i even knew in this world, I then BEGGED to teach at a school that had a population of 8 students and in return I would be paid 50 bob for my fare back to my aunts place in Gathondeki (2012 May) JAB came and I missed a chance to study law by 0.1 points in all universities! You cannot imagine how crushed I was!! Law had always been my dream. A dream I worked for and got a miraculous A- in KCSE coming from a student who was always bottom last in my class my schoolmates Keseko Enid Colleta Wambua Guyatu Diida Halake Nazz Nato Mumbi K. Mariah Gene Halaku can attest to this! And there I was.. my dreams.. shattered! At this point I want to remember and give thanks to my spiritual dad Ken Aringo who had been holding my hand this whole time walking with me through one of the toughest times of my life ( I had just been kicked out by my biological father for the second time, God bless him I forgave him and healed). Pasy told me one thing that fateful morning of JAB when I was just about to call it quits My daughter, ya JAB imeisha, ya Mungu bado inakuja, wait for it I wiped my tears and said I would wait, waited in prayers, reminding GOD every second of my dreams my ambitions. God did it! The call to join Strathmore on FULL SCHOLARSHIP CAME from my high school principle with whom i had shared my biggest dreams ambitions during my last year of school and struck a deal with ( I asked her to allow me stay in school without paying fees and in return I would get an A- a promise i worked by body out and delivered!! Let me just say MY LIFE CHANGED COMPLETELY! Did my challenges end? NO! How many days did i go to strathmore and spend hungry days? MANY? I tell you i did not even have the Strathmore look ( as you know our executive dress code) A student once told me to consider changing my wardrobe little did she know I had been broke for over a month and had rent arrears for over two months at the hostel was even locked out of the hostel two months later, haah I did not even have shoes!! I used to wear those plastic shoes za 200 hadi zikararuka in November 2012 ndio nikanunua zingine, was life tough, Hell YES! Is difficult now??? TRUST ME I AM YET TO PAY MY RENT FOR THE MONTH, Do i struggle?? Only some of my close friends like @ Joy Margaret and Esther Kinuthia would understand. The big question is HAVE I GIVEN up??? NO NEVER!!! I still stand strong, I hustle, I pray, i remind myself everyday of the big picture, I dress up even when I know I am sleeping on an empty stomach, you will see me go to even looking fantamagoeous yet I probably even walked to the event for lack of fare Nancy Risper Atieno has watched me do this lol! You just shouldnt ever think of quiting! Keep trying my friend, go for the next interview, for heavens sake book for an appointment with Ronnie Osumba Chris Kirubi, Caroline Mutoko and laugh over tea as you learn, meet up with friends like Areba Omwoyo Samba and Okoth Billian Ojiwa and eat mtura ya 10 bob, go for a very affordable shoot in your dress worth 200 shillings with Yvonne Mbula Fiona Eddah Wambui Mercy Wambui Kingori and HAVE FUN! Run for student council at first year and make sure you WIN! and eventually make great friends like @ Festus Alex Messr Niven Simiyu Sululu Lone Felix Kimutai Kemboi Kipsaro Arap Boit and many unmentioned, my friend join a debate club and get mentored by the greastest of them all Josiah Adiema Adiema Adiema Adiema. TAKE A RISK and move out with amazing peeps like @ Adima Mesa Adima Mesa (Who is preparing matoke nilitoka nayo ushago christmas for supper as I type this. ;) Hang out with Hesh De Silva once in a while ( We should sit down some time for mentorship over a glass of fine wine this 2015:) Join an amazing family of Onward with kina Ricky Thomas Nyakach Boniface Gor Naima Ferrari Min Bentley Chris Mark Joel Okwemba and more na baba wetu Ronnie Osumba. Start your own movement like Its Our Time-Africa! Have people you regard as close to your heartlikes of Michael Rooney Njeru Mike Obare . Let Vincent Kodongo mentor you I promise you he will buy you a book or two on leadership (Thank you vincent sana). Have your own babies to mentor these and more are mine Akinyi Omondi Ness Kioko Sharon Mucheke Bramwel Neriko Farzana Abdikadir and hundreds more :) Join Downtown Toastmasters Club! God knows Rhetoric will save your life! (On that note if you want to join the next meeting is this Thursday and I will be the Toastmaster of the day inbox for details Join Youth Senate - Kenya! Your president will be the handsome Gideon Keter DO ALL THAT AND MORE! but do not one thing: NEVER CALL IT QUITS NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER LOOSE SIGHT OF WHO YOU ARE CALLED TO BE! NEVER! #NEVERGIVEUP #KEEPTRING #ITSYOURTIME careerpointkenya.co.ke/2014/08/meet-strathmore-law-student-told-ni-mjinga-never-gave/
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:39:54 +0000
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