Whereas i never had the remotest chance of meeting the late Samuel Wanjiru, i happen to have been a great admirer of the young man. One, because he was a Kenyan athletics hero, two, because he was an athletics champion away from the usual Kalenjin norm and three, because he made our country proud in the 2008 Olympics by the first ever Kenyan Olympics Marathon Gold. Maybe not the gold per se, but the style he put in winning it.....................and the smile.
If death was anything that one can challenge legally, i would have dedicated all my life for studying any law just to see death defeated. But wishes.............they were never horses. And just at his start, at his beginning, Samuel Wanjiru is no more. Dead earlier than he should. JThe question lingers, just why? Death, where is your sting?
The country is crying the death of a hero, yet not only that but even the way he died. That Samuel Wanjiru fell from the balcony of his house to his death is simply too sad. That he was found by his wife in the company of a mistress is equally sad. Anyway, I would not blame him for that, not because i advocate for extra-marital affairs, but because the same way a lion is carnivorous is the same way man is out-eyed. We do not blame the lion, we should not blame the man. The fact that Samuel Wanjiru was drunk on his demise is demoralizing.
The saddest part of all is the fact that his young family was ever in an opposite mood. Endless squabbles between him and his wife may not have done it any justice to him as a human being. Maybe it plunged him into the state of drunkenness. Which begs the first lesson; do not underestimate the potential that your wife has on you. They teach us that behind every success man is a woman. They never teach us that behind every ruin of a man is a woman. Thank God for history has taught us this.
Things have turned for worse for the young man's soul. Court battles, claims and counter-claims, and three should-have-been fathers! It is alright for Wanjiru's mother to demand to know the cause of her son's death. If she suspects foul play, she has every right to express the same. She is the mother and no one can take that from her. I pity the wife. But she should only hope to pay the final respect to the father of her children by letting the world know that their hero died a 'clean' death. That's the least she should accord our hero. The fear of losing her right to share Wanjiru's property should not count. What's more important than a peaceful conscience? The lesson here is, your mother gave birth to you, she gave you life. Your only can only add to that life, she cannot give you life. Your mother is more important to you than your wife.
For the three men claiming to be the father of the gone hero, you are so welcome. The only question is, where were you for the last 24 years? You may share the sorrow of the loss now, but is it genuine? Just how genuine is it? Aren't you after some mileage in your empty lives? Aren't you after attention, which even if one of you is entitled to, deserves less? The lesson here is, men at one point of their lives are stupid. And because they are, if you have grown without knowing your father, and who happens to be alive, just when you grow up, wish it away.
For Samuel Wanjiru, when gods deem it right, REST IN PEACE, Bro.
If death was anything that one can challenge legally, i would have dedicated all my life for studying any law just to see death defeated. But wishes.............they were never horses. And just at his start, at his beginning, Samuel Wanjiru is no more. Dead earlier than he should. JThe question lingers, just why? Death, where is your sting?
The country is crying the death of a hero, yet not only that but even the way he died. That Samuel Wanjiru fell from the balcony of his house to his death is simply too sad. That he was found by his wife in the company of a mistress is equally sad. Anyway, I would not blame him for that, not because i advocate for extra-marital affairs, but because the same way a lion is carnivorous is the same way man is out-eyed. We do not blame the lion, we should not blame the man. The fact that Samuel Wanjiru was drunk on his demise is demoralizing.
The saddest part of all is the fact that his young family was ever in an opposite mood. Endless squabbles between him and his wife may not have done it any justice to him as a human being. Maybe it plunged him into the state of drunkenness. Which begs the first lesson; do not underestimate the potential that your wife has on you. They teach us that behind every success man is a woman. They never teach us that behind every ruin of a man is a woman. Thank God for history has taught us this.
Things have turned for worse for the young man's soul. Court battles, claims and counter-claims, and three should-have-been fathers! It is alright for Wanjiru's mother to demand to know the cause of her son's death. If she suspects foul play, she has every right to express the same. She is the mother and no one can take that from her. I pity the wife. But she should only hope to pay the final respect to the father of her children by letting the world know that their hero died a 'clean' death. That's the least she should accord our hero. The fear of losing her right to share Wanjiru's property should not count. What's more important than a peaceful conscience? The lesson here is, your mother gave birth to you, she gave you life. Your only can only add to that life, she cannot give you life. Your mother is more important to you than your wife.
For the three men claiming to be the father of the gone hero, you are so welcome. The only question is, where were you for the last 24 years? You may share the sorrow of the loss now, but is it genuine? Just how genuine is it? Aren't you after some mileage in your empty lives? Aren't you after attention, which even if one of you is entitled to, deserves less? The lesson here is, men at one point of their lives are stupid. And because they are, if you have grown without knowing your father, and who happens to be alive, just when you grow up, wish it away.
For Samuel Wanjiru, when gods deem it right, REST IN PEACE, Bro.
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