PROUD OF MY MOTHER

Friday is finally here, what a week it was!

There are days that single people look up to. First is the pay day for salaried people, then there is Friday. This day is normally associated with fun and laughter. This is my first Friday at home and I’m recovering from that unfortunate accident. Suffice to say, I am getting better thanks to the care my loving mother is giving me. Father has just left for his own errands, meaning freedom to watch the television.

Power to read

Nationally, there is the Miguna Miguna deportation saga and the push and pull between the executive and the judiciary that dominated the press this week. On normal occasions, I suspect my father would have ‘deported’ me from his house since I now have an ID and a job. To him my time was up the moment I was conferred ‘the power to read and do everything that pertains to this diploma.’

Strength of a woman

But she would not have done this to me. Even if i got convicted for a crime and everyone abandoned me, she would never. As long as she lives here, i am always welcome. Broke, rich, smart or unkempt.

Mother has always been the reasonable one. She has been the beacon of my life ever since I was a child. It’s a shame I never got her a gift for Mothers’ Day neither did I make the call to wish her too.

Strength of a woman

 In my current state, I recall those moments that I have acted in a childish manner. One day that stands out in my mind is the day Emma broke my heart for some university chap in Kericho.

I was devastated. I became irritable and snapped at every body including mom. But she never lost her cool. Perhaps she knew the real cause behind her son’s tantrums. I was unreasonable and unfair to the people who cared the most about me.

Another one was the days I used to be broke while in school. How she got money to send it to me remains a wonder only God knows. Shaggy the Jamaican superstar captured it perfectly in his hit single, strength of a woman.

Though I may not have  met some of her expectations, I still feel proud to be her son.