I have grown up in an urban setting and there’s the good of it and the bad of it. However the good side of it is weightier 😅.
I missed some games that I find to be fun. For instance the “slido” or what’s it called??? 😂 The one where 90’s kids would go up a muddy hill and slide…si you now get the one I’m talking about???
I also didn’t swim in rivers(si eti najua kuswim tho’🤣) nor did I do fishing because where are the rivers??? 😭Ok there is a river that flows behind our house but oh well😐.
However, I grew up playing some games🤗. My parents had bought us a ball and skipping ropes. To add to it, while in school or church I’d play that game where we used to draw squares on the ground😂 and I’d also try “bano” once in a while; for some reason I found the latter to be a ‘boys’’ game.
If you didn’t play “cha mama na baba” did you even even have a childhood???🤔 I loved folding my sweaters into a ‘baby’ and cooking mud and weed🤣.
Most people in rural areas earn their living from their farms; they are mostly farmers. Then there’s our parents who earn their living in urban areas. So now during school holidays, while my friends in rural areas accompany their parents to coffee farms and all, I’d accompany mine to their hardware. Hee watu wangu si nilikula simiti na kudungwa na misumari 🙆🏿♀.
A whole adult like me still doesn’t know how some foods we eat look while in the shamba because I get them from the market. You know the black beans(the ones that are black with a white stripe-‘ncabi’…yeah??? Sijui zinakaanga aje zikiwa kwa shamba 😹. Not to worry tho’ because I am sure I ain’t the only one. A few of you relate.
If you’ve grown up in a town you know how much there’s noise pollution. There’s a vehicle hooting loudly, there’s a loud boda, someone is driving around announcing a kesha on Friday, the blacksmith next door is busy chomeaing some metals, a movie shop across is playing loud music…NOISE everywhere. Now I am so used to noise that I can comfortably sleep even in the noisiest place you can think of.
Halafu in towns we don’t know each other. You see how in villages people know everyone and their lineage??? We don’t do that here😎. After all where is the time to know people and their genealogy when you are meeting new people everyday??? However there are those families that are known by everyone in the town🤣.
I am among the few born-taos that are good at their vernacular language😎. There are people you’ll listen to while talking their mother tongue and you’ll be very astonished. I don’t blame them at all. How will you understand and speak Kimeru fluently yet you’ve been brought up in a cosmopolitan town???
Halafu we are very delicate. A 3-minute exposure to cold might leave us with a flu. Ok I EXAGGERATE!!! But you get my point???
Finally,
Would I trade growing up in a town with anything??? NO.
~Bible Vibes~
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalms 103:11-12
CoFfEe SeRvEr 