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
SABASABA IS A DAY TO REFLECT ON OUR CURRENT CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS, THREATS, STRENGHTHS WEAKNESESS AND OPPORTUNITIES AS A NATION
Fellow Kenyans be warned! Never be the type that only listens to the masses and rely on hearsay to arrive at a conclusion in serious matters like what we are going through as a country currently! This problem started with the last general election, when issues were raised by both sides of the political divide concerning the Party Nomination process and finally the National tallying of the presidential votes. This culminated into filing of a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the presidential election results by CORD. This was not fairly handled by the courts in terms of time allocated for hearing, perusal of the petition exhibits/support documents and delivery of the final ruling which was hurriedly instituted without official final ruling affidavit said to be ready in 6 months time. We swallowed our ambition for the sake of peace at the expense of democracy. A host of other petitions from both sides of the political divide followed suit thereafter challenging Governors, Senators, MPs, Women Reps as well as MCA's. We did see strange things started happening in our country with mass murders taking center stage, high ranking political assassinations,insecurity going to the wire, basic commodities prices sky rocketing, the government started to fumble with its campaign pledges, Our national economy life lines (Tea, tourism prices to name but a few) started playing dismally in the international market. With all these happening, Kenyans both in the diaspora and here at home all along waited to see if things would change from bad to good in earnest, instead they change from bad to worse. With all these happening, our government this week unveiled a budget of 1.8 trillion while in the real sense they are only capable of raising 800 million leaving a deficit of 1 trillion which they only intend to borrow from sources unlikely to agree to fund. Even if these sources agree to lend them then it will be like borrowing food to be consumed in one day and be in the same situation the following day. With the calling of the National dialogue, we stand a better chance to sort out the daring economic and security impasse which is threatening the real lifeline of each and every Kenyan citizen irrespective of tribe, political party, religion, class or part of the country one is hailing from. Saba Saba Day is a day worth remembering for it is the day which gave us the New Constitution we all boast of, cherish and have faith in to sort all our current and historical injustices. Fellow Kenyans SABA SABA DAY IS NOT A DAY TO LAUNCH PHYSICAL ATTACK TO THE PEOPLE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF YOUR POLITICAL DIVIDE BUT A DAY TO REFLECT ON OUR CURRENT CHALLENGES, ACHIEVEMENTS, THREATS, STRENGHTHS WEAKNESESS AND OPPORTUNITIES AS A NATION NOT A DAY TO SETTLE THE POLITICAL SCORES!!!!!
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