We shall overcome! Covid_19.

As usual, on my birthdays, 14th day of September, it’s always my day to plant trees and read the what happened on that day in history.Not so long ago, two years down the line to be exact, on my birthday, I found a shocking article on healthline by Richard Gunderman.

It was about the greatest pandemic in history as he termed it, That day, the pandemic reached 100 years since it took place.
I was shocked by millions of people it swept but not as much as authors closing statements,
“Pandemics will always be there, experts says that the next pandemic is a question of when? And not if !”
Two years later, I could sit for my exams,go to church neither hug my mother in the morning as I used to because of another pandemic, covid_19.

Someone my ask why we have to thank covid_19, In 2015 when I was in form three, I went to Dean of students office, My class teacher Mr Ondigo Asuka may his soul rest in peace, was drinking water in glass, he raised it up and shouted my name, “Babu, do we say this glass is half empty of water or half full of water?” I smiled broadly and said, “Sir, we say it’s a half full of water.” He told me that the answer was right, he went ahead and asked me the philosophy behind him which my guess was as good as any other student who have never stepped in class of philosophy. He told me that young man, you look life from a positive side, in any circumstance, however tough it is, look something positive from it and make your way from it.

Two years later, I was reading a good book that I commend to you, “The danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the great writer acknowledges that we should look at both sides, both stories of anything and not only use the positive side of it for our excuses or advantage.

In 1665, there was a pandemic, Bubonic plague to be exact, Just as it is in Kenya today, students went home, Cambridge students were not exemption, Did you Know that Isaac Newton used this free period during quarantine to invent calculus which is an important organ of mathematics body? Am sure he thanked pandemic,

“You can’t solve all the worlds problem and most of the times you will find yourself in uncomfortable situations, what you should never do is to underestimate your impact in the society.” Mitchell Obama said and so I say to you, if you lack IQ to invent calculus, you can’t lack teeth to give a smile, if you lack teeth to give a smile you can’t lack shoulder to make those in difficulties lean on! Don’t estimate this, little by little,less become more, slowly by slowly porridge enters guard. If we utilise this time we shall make world better place to live in. Let’s strength the bond.

We are in tough time globally, if Julian of Norway was a live, perhaps her mantra “All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.” Would have been all countries National Anthem. To those who have tighten their belts should listen to the words of Achebe in “No longer at ease” Chapter 18 page 120, that mother bedbugs told little bedbugs when hot water was poured on them in their hiding place,that stay strong little ones, things changes,even this hot water poured on us will get cold.

The late Irish John Donohue poet’s poignant words are perfect for our time,not even time he wrote it.
“This is the time to be slow,
Lie down to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes
Try,as best as you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart.
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time Wii come good,
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pasture of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning!