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TO LIVE OR TO DIE

By Dr Paul Bundi Human beings are endowed with remarkable resilience, which can only be broken when they choose to give up. Says Viktor Frankl in his seminal book, Man's Search for Meaning; ''it is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future-sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in thd most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task.'' Man's life is primarily driven by the desire for future, the unshakable belief that the future holds promise. We invariably cease to live when we think we have hit a dead end, or that there's nothing more to be had by living. Theoretically, there is no limit to man's achievement, and that is what drives men to wake up and strive day after day. The opposite is spiritual, psychological death, which manifests way ahead of physical death. Lesson? Losing today doesn't mean losing always. You can lose 10 times and win the 11th time. Or, you...

Samantha Lewthwaite has sworn to retaliate for the deaths of Ahmad Shariff a.k.a Makaburi on Kenyan and Western targets!

After the British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite let massacre of over 70 people in Westgate Mall in Kenyan affleunt suburb of Westlands, she is known to have run to lawless Sommalia. She sneaked to Somalia through the volatile border of the Kenyan coast after which she was picked by masked Al-Shabab militants to Baidoa. After Baidoa, they shifted her to Islamist controlled Barawe which was historically called Brava. From Barawe, she was assigned to 15 battle-hardened Al-shabaab soldiers who have sworn to slit throats of whoever who dares to enter the forest where the jihadists are based. Lewthwaite has sworn to retaliate for the deaths of Ahmad Shariff a.k.a Makaburi on Kenyan and Western targets!

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