What Status!

“Why are you single?”

I think that is the most difficult question I have been asked in recent times. I say difficult because, heck! I could not come up with an answer like immediately, (I had to sleep over it).  At some point, I was like “Well, becau—it’s jus—honestl—I thi—uhh”….and boy did I have a hard time finding an answer, even to myself. Such like questions make you want to drop off everything and sprint into the distance. Not really that they don’t have answers, because, I mean, any answer could be and is true depending on how you look at it.  As a matter of fact, I’m being screwed by the government every day. Not to mention the poor infrastructure, horrible weather, rising inflation, soil erosion, political instability. Do you want me to go on?…

Remember those exam questions that had the most marks but you couldn’t get a straight forward answer to no matter how much you’d revised and researched? Those questions you’d skip with the hope that they’d somehow disappear from the question paper, only to realise they bore the most marks and there’s no way you’d avoid them? Those questions that were labelled in bold “Compulsory” and somehow determined your failure or success in that particular subject? You just could not avoid them no matter what tactics you used. Those questions that, for the life of it, did not have “Mwakenyas” and you just could not make up stuff in the name of answering. Those ones!

So, four cups of coffee later,  I’m quite certain that I’m single because I didn’t forward those chain messages stating: “forward this to 10 people and you will meet the love of your life in 10 days, or else suffer bad luck” in the past.  Better yet, I have a feeling that my soul mate is somewhere out there pushing a pull door right now! Lets just say if I was a Pokemon, my ability would be “obvious”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“What does an introvert do when he’s left alone? He stays alone.” – Jenni Ferrari – Adler, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone