Experience

Would life have been easier if we know how it would turn out even before we uttered the first word. What if all my life I grew up knowing that I was destined to become a great author, a motivational speaker and life coach to kids, how different would I have lived my life? What if after hustling with all that school I was in fact just meant to be a 'Mama Mboga' with a chain of vegetable stands in every estate or a Mitumba hawker?

Experiences are good. They mold you into the person you eventually become. For instance growing up, my school life was miserable academically I was just an average most times below average student, which exposed me to the wrath of most of my teachers. However, I really loved reading and writing both English and Kiswahili and History was my favorite subject. In those three subjects I religiously scored A's. Thus I understand very well what an average student goes through. So what do I do with this understanding? One thing is for sure...So help me God, Sonny will not go through the whole 'make it in school or be a failure in life' speech I had to listen to on numerous occasions. Although school is important - I do not oppose that, but it is not the be all and end all of life. This is something we only realize when we are through with school. I Mean look at 90% of self made multi-millionaires and billionaires in this country, those who have not inherited the wealth from their fathers/ancestors are not highly educated. Even the likes of Mariga the soccer guy, or musicians like Jaguar, Jua Kali and the like do not hold PhD's in their fields or any other fields.

I recently learnt that within the average human being, lies between 500-700 talents. This came as a shock to me as all along I have struggled to pin point my talent. But after this lesson, where my eyes were opened, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that indeed I am a mini maestro in many things.

Today's blog is not restricted to single mothers but applies to all mothers, why put your young one through unecessary pressure rather than developing their already in-built talents.