16/12/2024
Sometimes I tell myself I need to frequent my writing to harness my skills but a few things keep me out of character...Or many. Mainly, the habit of procrastinating . Anyway, today we talk toxic love.
I wish I would write to inspire but no, I talk pain. Pain of a good guy turned heartless.
See, Njuguste is a guy born in abject naivety, maybe from the parent’s habit to protect the teachers family name or simply from toxicities of a love that should never have been.
See, mama was three months away from being an ordained sister, read nun, somewhere in the convents of Nyeri. I have seen photos of her in that holier-than-thou pose, she looked the part.
As it happens, they get a three month break before taking the final oath to be married to Christ, to interact with kin and issue farewells. My father was not aware of this plan or the nun to be had lose ends since during this time she conceived, me.
I suspect the act was not done in any holy place, better still in any room or bed. Bush baby.
Why is this relevant?
Well, I had a constant bitter relationship with my mother, in very early stages of life and on very silly things. Like why did I get a beating for saying I had perfected riding the Avon bike through the small g*te and when she asked that I show her the same, I failed miserably. The devil, I was beaten like some thief. You get the point?
I don’t.
Thing is, it’s this or I was never meant to love. Because tell me why episode after episode I have made terrible after terrible moves.
Remember that doll from Gikomba?.The one who left because she feared I would leave like her dad.
Then there’s the other one from the village, that got a job and figured she didn’t have time for a campus guy. She intimated I was chewing some Kisii las, well who wouldn’t.
There is a horde of them, down to the one who birthed me the boys. That one I blame myself, she wore some guys name on a wristband and convinced me it was a bestie thing. Naive, right? That is what I was.
I will write about every single one of them, my naivety has to translate to some form of healing to somebody.