Thursday, July 11

..................from our writers desk

ANTONY MAINA

@depressedpoet12

sorry to say this but Guys have underestimated me my entire life and for years I never understood why – it used to really bother me. Then one day I was walking to school(gretsa university), and I saw a quote by the roadside painted on the wall there and it said, ‘Be curious, not judgmental.’ I liked that.”

So, I get to school and all of a sudden it hits me – all them fellas that used to belittle me, not a single one of them was curious. You know, they thought they had everything all figured out, so they judged everything, and they judged everyone. And I realized that their underestimating me – who I was had nothing to do with it. Because if they were curious, they would’ve asked questions.

'BE CURIOUS, NOT JUDGEMENTAL' thats the message.....

ANTONY MAINA

I had a 347 on my kcpe. I got a 64 on my kcse And I had a pretty good GPA from campus. I thought I had my life mapped out. But then I remembered what my Nonlinear Equations professor once told me, "Always account for variable change." I let down my good friends. But as it turns out, they weren't too bad at simple math either. I scored the prettiest girl in school. I got beaten down by an old thika ghettoh thug who was having trouble accepting his retirement. But I worked out a deal with him that got him a nice pension. And I lied to my mother. But I confessed the lie, and, well, she still loved me. So my senior year of college, I joined this team. And I learned this new skill. I went to Nairobi 17 times to use it. I made hundreds of thousands of dollars counting cards. And then I had it all stolen from me. Twice. i am a survivor.