“I count myself as nothing but lucky in remembering my good friends”………William shakespheare.
If you don’t appreciate, you depreciate….
If I could give you diamonds, for each truth you’ve made me see,
If I could give you gold, for all the times you stood by me,
If I could give you rubies, for all the tears you’ve cried for me,
If I could give you sapphires for all the wrongs that you made right.
If I could give you silver for all the joy you brought to my life,
Then you’ll have a treasure, my dear,
That would mount up to the sky…
That would tower the heavens and match the sparkle in you’re eyes…
But I have no gold or silver, as you well know,
Neither do I have rubies and sapphires, as you are well aware..
So I’ll give you gifts more precious….
My devotion, my love and care..
The next person I owe a great deal to who I am today is a man called Joseph Kariuki. Most of you do not know him but watch out, he is climbing his ladder to success. It’s not about hero worship, but sincerely I admire this guy. Am not love struck by him, I do not even talk to him but he had already made a very huge impression in my life even before I met him. They are this people who I loved even before I met; Ben was always singing to me how bright he was and how good he was with books.
My fist encounter with him was what I can call uneventful. He brushed past me and was staring at me so I was forced to say hi. I remember I was sloping down the Faculty of Vetinary and I clearly remember thinking what this dude was looking at. I was even tempted to call him a monkey, in my mother tongue that sounds ouch imagine my shock when I learnt he was my lecturer. I can’t say I enjoy his lecturers, they are very boring.
Most of you are wondering then why he is in my list of mentors. See, he made a careless comment in class and thought he was just talking. I remember him talking about good perfomers in O level who came to campus and got boyfriends, ended up being heartbroken and so were on their way to getting a pass degree. Now, that was the first thing that got into me. I remember my desk mate pinching me and telling me the guy was talking about me. Now, that did not get into me. The next thing was what startled me, “with your last breath you can make a fresh start’. He gave us some brief experience about how he had had a relationship but it did not work and all that kind of stuff. Now, that really got into me. If my role model had also been in painful relationship and had overcame it, I also could. That is what made me want to prove him wrong, that although I had failed due to a man in my first year, I was among the ones who would pass because he directly thought I would graduate with a pass.
You can ask me what I have ever gotten from his class: absolutely nothing. The only thing I remember him saying in class is that God would rather have a messy you than not to have you at all. One day he said in class that it’s not the mountains that we conquer, its ourselves. Off all the counseling Dot com had taken me to, no one had made me love and believe myself like he did.
To me, he is my greatest inspiration. I wish to tell him this one day in life, when I start talking to him. To me, he is my greatest inspiration. He taught me of a greater and more important love, the love of myself when no one else could. he told us that we have a right to love ourselves, now where else can you get that except from an intellectual? I may not show him the correct gestures, neither may I be the perfect person, I may not also talk to him but to me, he is a hero. When I count my blessings, I always count him twice. I just pray that he will now that one day when he decided to go down and mess up, he will not only pull himself and his wife down, but people who also believe in him like me.
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