The less routine the more life

Finally Friday is here again. Some call it ‘furahi day’ meaning a day to rejoice, but for me I don’t see any difference from the other days because I know I’m going to spend it just like the other days. Since I became sick last week I had to be indoors all through and from Monday till today am still here. Doctors say that when you are sick then you should spend most of the time in bed and rest a lot, but for me I have discovered a new thing from all these, you become sicker,  bored and tired, you don’t recover at all.

Having to do the same thing throughout the week has really made my health to deteriorate and even worsen and am sure this is not because the drugs have not been effective but probably I have been spending most of the time sleeping, anyway let’s turn the coin on the other side ad look at the positive things that I have learn t, mmmmmh! , ROUTINE is the word. I have learn t how routine can make Opiyo the dull boy.

Routine is the tendency of doing things is a common fashion; it’s like waking up in the morning, taking a shower, breakfast, going to job and doing the same thing throughout the day. It’s an easy life but when observed closely very monotonous and boring.  Henry van duke once said that as long as a habit and a routine dictate the patterns of living, new dimensions of the soul will never emerge.

Doing things in a routine is really dangerous. It blocks our brains from new ideologies and interests. Life is great out there it’s full of new things which we always need to try out. Talk of the Christian walk; this is one walk that requires diversity, if we live a Christian life where we read the bible because it’s part of the routine, pray because we have to do it at 9pm before going to bed or go to church because it’s a community routine to worship every Sunday, then we are heading to the wrong destination.

I have been in catholic denomination and have really experienced a routine in the way of worship. Standing at some point of prayers, kneeling in some, reciting the same prayers and singing the same songs after each prayers etc. I have nothing against these forms of doing things but I guess it reaches a point where we become sick of it and its value is lost.

Sometimes looking at things in a different angle makes us discover their other shapes and dimensions, and sometimes doing things in different ways help us to create new ideas and ways to develop our selves. We have made it a habit to judge people in the way they talk, laugh at stupid jokes and have desired to fit in ‘clicks’ just to be accepted, but all in all we don’t accept ourselves because we always have to follow the same trend in order to feel complete, but the question is, are we really complete?

Let me drift a bit and look at the Kenyan political history, 1st president Mr. Kenyatta always said “harambee”   and people would shout “nyayo”. President Moi on the other hand forced us to follow the nyayo slogan and finally we found ourselves lagging behind since we were still using the Kenyatta ways of doing thing, but where has that taken us, are we industrialized yet? Will we ever be industrialized anyway? The routine has caught up with our politics, endorsing the same people over years, stealing votes for them to be in the same positions, but still we are longing for changes?

What’s wrong with us people, haven’t we learn t anything over the years?  Routine will never redeem a man. Praying in the same manner won’t make you a growing Christian, sometimes you have to do it longer, stronger and more sincerely. Routine takes away our honesty, it drains out our passion and more so makes us lesser and lesser as the days goes by. William Graham once said, “Men of routine or men who do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare to find.” This is all true, but he didn’t say that they are impossible to find.

I believe it’s time we do away with the routine thing and stop being lazy to think of new ideas of doing things in our  Christian walk, in improving our economy and electing our political leaders, because one reality about routine is that it kills all our imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

“Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom” said James Galway. Today I won’t spend my day in bed for throughout this week I have learn t a lot about routine and since I don’t want to be the lazy boy, who can’t generate ideas, am off these blankets.

Wake up and journey on.

Now or never

Intentions are the main reasons as to why everything has happened the way it’s happening. The reality of it all is that it can be positive or even negative depending on the way you look at .Sometimes we want to gain fame, favor or maybe we want to feel good about ourselves and that’s not bad after all, but the sad reality about all this is that in most cases we don’t realize it when it knocks at our doors and haunt us in our dreams. It has become a night mare and this is something that we should be very cautious about.

Every time we do something the first thing that we should be asking ourselves is whether we have ill intentions for doing it or is it because we really want to make good use out of it. The world can really become different if only we will employ positive thinking on our intentions for doing things.

Sometimes I really wonder what has become of us Kenyans. The worse disease that we are suffering from is not malaria or HIV/AIDS but its called IGNORANCE. This is the state of not knowing something. For me I will present to you a very different definition something that will give a new direction of everything. I define ignorance as being lazy to think of positive intentions.

Don’t mistake me for defining this word like this but the truth of the matter is that people who never think positively and are always just hanging around negative thoughts are said to be ignorant. We in the world where we always want to receive everything without wanting to know how to earn it. We love to receive charity and always ready to ask for more but never are we working earn our own. This is the reality of things and if you don’t agree with me checks this out.

 Every year since Kenyan became an independent nation we have always received some donation from donors out there whether we need it or not. Receiving has become so nice and easy that we no longer want to work for anything.

If you look around and compare the gap between the poor and the rich, you will notice that’s expanding as days go by. This is because we have become so comfortable with our situation and we want to receive more from those who have plenty while those who have it want to give out more for their names sake or other intentions other than charity. We don’t want to work, and put efforts in our own welfare and always expecting manna from America or whichever place it’s coming from these days.

I have been doing some thinking and I have been wondering why Kenya is not an industrialized country like our fellow nations South Africa who by the way just got their independence the other day. This is because we have not learnt to live as one, you know the ‘brotherhood thing’ and this is really messing our chances of change. A person who cannot genuinely empathize with others can never excel as a leader. So much of what ails society today is the result of too many people in leadership positions who do not or cannot identify with the plight of their fellow men and women. It is in enduring pain and struggles that the earth of our humanity is cultivated. And it is from this earth that a capacity to be genuinely concerned for the welfare of others blossoms.

It’s time that we look at our individual lives and come up with ways of developing our selves and making good intentions out of everything, life being a road with many signs we really need to take time to notice all the signs least we lose our way. Take it from me if we don’t open our eyes now then we might sleep forever.

Wake up lets journey on.