In this part of the world, way of life changing very fast perhaps to match with every where in the world. I couldn’t help myself to think about that in those days when I was living with my grand mother. She was and still complains that I don’t behave like African youth according to traditional and customs. For me that claim was merely her way to hinder me to “achieve pleasure and avoiding pain”. Chasing girls, drug and substance abuse, disobedient and some other like habits were and still are alternative and not choice for the most youths. We went to school, despite the efforts of our teachers who tried to change our motive by endeavor us with most Africans literature's books such as those from Ngongi Wathiong, Chinua Achebe and so much more. Unfortunately our brains were and in some extent are blunt and blinded with our impulse and common aide of matching with developing country of the western. I’m not contrary about that as long as we will be able to differentiate fact and logic. This will make as stop feeling backward for our being. Our favorite studies which I hope if we had been given an exam we would perform well were and still are Hollywood subjects. Here we are learning in the very simple way how to behave: What should we desire; how can we wearer; how should we look like, etc, etc.
Bird watching and several other things I’m doing and some other few friends do too. Two years ago me and some other friends whom I met at the tourism training college. In these colleges our parents for the money they earn from selling the fortune maize or the grains sent us to be trained for unavailable jobs. This is due to our failure to carry hoe, panga (machete) and calabash full of water. Clear the remain forest to enlarge the field and search for more fertile land. Then till it under the burning sun. After all blood work we sore seed and in great anxious we have to look on the sky every day for unpredictable rain.
After training college which make little deference with the farm, unpredictable rain and unpredictable jobs are alike. Luckily few of us had little enlightenment which course us embarrass unconventional way. The “Less traveled way”. While majority keep on in the in “Popular traveled”.
In non conventional we keep on develop our skills, searching for knowledge and understand as we found out we can’t live to day with the old understand. In this way we are able to abolish frustration and anxious. In that point my own philosophy of life is close to this;
The best moments in our lives are not passive, receptive, relaxing times…the best moments usually occur when person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult end worthwhile”.
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly.
