Every day most of us wake up go through our
daily chores,work and family lives and are privileged enough to wear clothes that can protect us from all the elements and we don't worry about these things because it's a norm.
Today I wake up in thought of the Women I have met who didn't have the privilege of waking up to the most basic of things.
Women who Woke up and never thought they would live through the day.
Women who lost loved ones in horrendous circumstances.
Women whose families were displaced little or no food or water.
Women who had lost all hope of a better tomorrow.
Women who were broken down but could still see a future for themselves even though they didn't know how they would get a step ahead .
They knew that there disparity would lead them to greater places than there current situations.
Here in Kenya we have seen or heard of all these things.
Over the last few years,we have seen our beautiful country been rocked on the lines of tribalism,terrorism and abject poverty.
Although we know of what happens and the media does cover such situations it later fades away and becomes part of a memory to those of us who are not directly affected.
However those who have lived it have to relive those gruesome moments over and over they have to deal with the loss of loved ones,the loss of places they made homes,the visible scars of nights of terror. Mental scars of not being able to live life as they once knew.
I have met brilliant Women who have suffered from domestic violence young girls who had to run away from home to avoid being married off.
We have opened our home to girls who didn't have a home and young girls whose families practiced Female Genital Mutilation and had to go through it because they didn't know how to get out of it.
Women who were sexually abused by relatives at a young age.
Women who were gang raped.
Women who turned to drinking to drown there sorrows to forget there pain just for a few moments.
We all know women whose lives have been anything but easy,some of us are living those lives.Meeting these women.
I lived those moments with them through their words.
I Witnessed the hardships they endure daily.
I became part of their story and I am grateful to them.In life.
If you become so focused on self fulfillment there is little to gain.
Our individual lives are hectic however as humans we should be different we should be able to too see the pain in someone else and want better for them .
Help them through whatever they are going through not avoid them like they have the plague or talk about them behind there backs feeling for them but doing nothing to help them in whatever capacity we can.
Nobody likes to feel alone sometimes being there for them is all they need to get the strength they need to get through .
Today I would like to challenge you reader to walk in someone's shoes you don't have to go far out and visit the various centres to volunteer charity begins at home look in your life and see where you can help someone who you can see or know needs your help and do it not for You but for the betterment of their lives.
And if you are living that life listen to that voice from within telling you not to give up as long as you are still breathing you have the chance to be better to achieve the dreams hopes and goals you have.
Live,love.laugh,Learn and share with those you care about
