The happiest place!

They said “Mgeni njoo, mwenyeji apone,” . With nostalgia, I reminisce our typical African home when visitors came around. Oh how even our pots knew that there were guests, because the food they prepared, was not in our usual menu.

But the saddest part is when they had to leave. For me it left, and still leaves, a dreaded emptiness as though I wasn’t completely fine before they came.

But now that’s beside the point. However with the illustration, come with me to my recent school of thought… How does it feel to be always left behind? To be always the one sending them off with a goodbye? To be always the one to applaud when they move to a better stage, a better age or just another step?

I’ll lay down my pride and frankly say, I hate it! It doesn’t sit well with me. Well at least up to now..Listen..

We are so often in an illusion of a better place, a better time or more, I’m sure you’ve heard, “brighter days are coming,” Now, who I’m I to say no..but hear me out before you go, listen…” Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. ” Alan Watts.

And before my Christian brethren stone me, I do not seek to recant my hope of the heavenly abode. But could it be, that we’re so heavenly-minded, so “better days”-minded, that we forget the beauty of now, the beauty of where we are. How ever hard now may be, I dare quote at the expense of being mediocre, that there is a silver lining.

How about we live the best out of now. How about we applaud for them not because our turn is coming, but that there is beauty in walking your own journey. Beauty in trusting the hand that leads. That when tomorrow comes, or ‘ better‘ comes, you’ll leave with nothing left.

I want to stay where I’m at, to do what I need to do, as if there is no other place I could be. And when I leave, if I leave, I’ll leave with nothing left!

But godliness with contentment is great gain.1Tim6:6