Jenwaki's Life Bench

In the western countries, Christmas is associated with Santa Clause and Christmas Tree. In Africa, mainly in Kenya, Christmas is traveling upcountry to your folks to slaughter that goat you've been fattening the whole year, drink a lot of booze and catch up. Christmas is actually the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. Its mainly celebrated on the 25th of December but I am meant to understand that some Christians celebrate it on 6th of January. Imagine having Christmas holidays in the month of January? It is possible since we have the new year and from there we could probably carry on maybe till the month is over. Wouldn't that be just fantastic? There would be no holiday blues like I already have as I had to yank myself from receiving some massive TLC away from the hustles and bustles of the City. I remember most Christmas days since I was 4 years old like it was just yesterday. The Carols, the psyche throughout the month, the decorations in our homes and outside, th

One of the major things that affect our present life and may have materialized from our past is Obsession.   Obsession may often surface after the loss of the subject/object or a heightened desire for a subject/object. It is like wanting to see a picture or a memory of the object/subject all the time, wanting to spent every moment analyzing the characteristics and movements of this subject/object and even sometimes having to stop what you are doing to search for it. Obsession can go both ways, negative or positive. Negative obsession may take lot of your time, energy and sometimes even finances. It can delay your desire to move on or pursue other things that could otherwise improve your life.   In positive obsession for example, you may be obsessed about making money or bettering your life, which can lead to just that as you are persistent in your pursuit.   Another thing from our past that affects our present is emotional baggage. Mostly, if your life has been easy, happy and sim

It always amazes me how much I can construct thoughts and all that construction sometimes crumbles down the moment I sit down to write about it. I may at times succeed in writing those thoughts but when I start proofreading, I get amused at how much different the written thoughts sounds. So today, I was cruising the net reading from very talented people who always manages to either amaze, tickle, patronize, anger, disgust, or make me go on quite a trip with my thoughts.  I discovered alas! some of them actually manages to write my so-much-sought-after thoughts. Thoughts I always mean to write about but sometimes my twisted urge for creativity gets in the way and I end up writing something totally different. For example, I have been observing some kinds of behaviors with some random humans and have been trying to put that in words. To make it all easy now here is a link to what I have always meant to write about it. http://luthercrop.hubpages.com/hub/i-can-point-names-and-name-finger