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
Former Presidential candidate‚ Martha Karua ‚ has lambasted Uhuru Kenyatta over the sacking and subsequent arrest of a senior Government officer who abused him in a bar in Lamu. Donald Avunde‚ a senior Forestry Officer who hails from Busia County but works in Lamu ‚ was sacked and arrested after he allegedly abused President Uhuru Kenyatta while drunk during a debate in one of the popular pubs in Lamu. His interdiction caused uproar among fellow civil servants in Lamu who faulted Uhuru/ Ruto’s Government of bringing back the KANU regime where no one could question the President. On her twitter account‚ Karua faulted Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee Government saying the senior officer did nothing wrong because he was just expressing his freedom of expression which is enshrined in the Constitution. Karua demanded that the Jubilee Government makes public the utterances made by Avunde which warranted his arrest and sacking. Here is her tweet; Karua#Criticismhowever harsh not an offence‚ let words allegedly uttered by forestry officer in Lamu be made public
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