SEASONS OF LIFE

Sometimes when reality catches up with you, you stand and watch with your mouth open most especially if you never expected it to happen. It doesn’t really matter if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. Now accepting reality sometimes can be very hard mostly if it has not gone our way. I honestly find that hard too but I have just realized is that the faster you accept it the faster the pains disappear. Facing the reality of losing a job, a child, partner and many other things that matter to us is not easy. Sometimes things just don’t work out as we wanted them to. The accepting part can also be looked into two dimensions. The first one is accepting that some people like us while we don’t. Knowing that you are loved and cherished by someone you don’t can be very discomforting but we can’t make them stop. As a matter of fact, you also love people who don’t even waste time to look at you. Be proud that you are at least loved by somebody. Love is love. It doesn’t matter where it going or c...

Have ever asked yourself about what you are worthy? What is it that can be able to buy you? A man who doesn’t understand him or herself will never know his or her value or what he or she is worthy. A certain wise man said, ”You’re what you think.” A man becomes what he or she thinks. Your mind is like a garden and you’re like the gardener. If you don’t weed the garden anything that chooses to grow in the garden will grow and in the end, you will have a garden that is filled with a lot of weeds that are useless. They just take up the nutrients that were supposed to be used by a crop that could have been profitable to you. So this is what people who see the garden will say, “What a useless garden. What benefit is the gardener getting from it? Or maybe is the gardener himself who is useless for failing to weed it?” in other words what they are saying is that both are useless for they are failing to come up with good things out themselves. They are valueless. So unweeded mind will lende...

Imagine a world without journalists, television, radios, internet and any communication media. Imagine the world without information and just to think of it a world without communication. What would it be like? For managers and business executives to make right and profitable decisions they need to be communicated with the good and right information. Information is the backbone of every decision people make every day. Wrong information leads to wrong decisions. Let me prove it. I head of a story real one, that a certain husband got the winds that his wife has been sharing his matrimonial bed with one of his friends. When he heard about it he confronted his wife with a lot of anger and without hearing the side of the wife he told her to pack and leave the house. He said he is not cheap to share a woman and he can not stoop so low to share a house with a woman who cannot keep her skirts zip closed. Better stay alone than share your hard earned money with a harlot. Three weeks down t...

I have heard, read or witnessed suicide deaths before but it had never happened to a close friend or relative.But the recent death of my friend who chose to take away his life has had a big effect on my life. It has taught me a very important lesson that i will try not to forget. Sam had just graduated from one of the constituent colleges of the University of Malawi with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He was a very intelligent friend who i adored since our primary school days. He was just brilliant beyond explanation. He got born again in secondary and was active in youth fellowships. We all knew we had a strong member, advisor and a role model. He openly said that was a virgin even at 25 years and wanted to maintain that until he met his life partner. The unfortunate thing happened when he joined a group of friends for a workshop at Lunzu Trading Centre. We are told that he was convinced to sleep with a prostitute. (I don't know how one managed to convince him to do such a th...

Times have really changed. Things are going to the abyss. Each and every day the world is getting bizarre stories and I have a truly bizarre story that really happened to people I know. To some of you it might be shocking and to some, it might be that you heard or maybe experienced a similar situation. When I heard about it I was really shocked. Telling you the truth, life sometimes is very unfair to people who are as innocent as infants. They get paid in wrong terms for their love, sacrifices, care, and goodwill. I will not use their real names for the sake of their privacy. Let’s call them Dan and Martha. Martha is a beautiful girl with so much love for Dan. She went through a lot of hard times because of him. There were times when Dan would beat her up, disrespect her in all kinds of manners, taking the hard earned money that Ma rtha earned from her less paying job for beer. All these things were happening when Dan was not working. He stayed without a job for about two ye...

Charity begins at home, so the old saying goes. Anything has to start at home. Before one does good to outsiders, one must start it at home or in the family. The family is a base or a platform for anybody to blossom and make it big. We all have heard of cases where some people are said to have a lot of problems in their lives because they never had blessings from their families. Everyone needs a family. I believe that the most horrible thing in life is to have no family. One can have all things in the w orld but happiness will never come if the person does not have a family. If we have a family, it gives us a feeling of belonging. We feel that we are not alone. The loneliest people are the ones without a family. The happiest people most of the times comes from good and healthy families. The importance of having a good and healthy family needs not to be overemphasized. It’s an inborn thing. It’s just natural. A husband who has a nagging wife is more likely to lose his efficiency ...

Just as there's a thin line between love and hate so is also true with life and death. You meet somebody today full of life, the next thing you will hear tomorrow is that the man is dead. Such is the truth about life. Just this year I have been shocked by death news. The first was my uncle who after working the whole day on his house (he was building) with his builders, felt ill the same day night and he died in early hours of the next day. This shocked me. How can a man who was full of life die like that? He never had any serious health problems to justify his sudden death. The second one was my own friend Nkasa (not Joseph Nkasa) who died less the same kind of death. Now the recent one being Micheal Jacko Jackson. His sudden death has not only shocked me as an individual but also the whole world. I had been a fan of Jacko for a long time. This guy was about to make a come back starting from 13 July 2009 which could have seen him going for a tour and he was about to have 50 conce...