The Pain of Election Periods To The Kenyan Youths

I believe in peace, love, and unity. What about you? What do you think about the three?

Dear youths, it’s time for us to style up! I mean, we have to change our thinking capacity and drive our attention to things that will improve our lives tomorrow. We are now in an election period. What pains me is that during these periods we lose a lot of youths in the name of politics and us vs them.

Why? Have you ever asked yourself why this is always happening every election period? Can you sit down and ask yourself this question? To answer this question, I think youths die because we are desperate.

Yes, we are desperate because we do not have jobs; we don’t have the opportunity; that is why “they” take advantage of you. Our future is not in the hands of our politicians; remember, they also do not hold your opportunity. You have the potential to be the person you want to be; only if you make yourself productive.

@sh200, 500, and 1000 handouts during campaigns will not change your life; elections take place once every five years. What difference can sh200, 500, and 1000 make in your life? Think! They only use you for them to climb the ladder of leadership, after which they damp you.

We are the solution; let us embrace peace, love and unity. We have the skills, abilities to make every opportunity count. Let us try to love one another. Do not hate me because of my political stand.

Do not fight your neighbour because they do not agree with you because politics is a game. It is sad to see that “they” make us hate each other when they meet, eat, and drink in the most expensive hotels that you cannot afford to take your family or friends to.

"They" cannot accommodate you when things go wrong and remember you cannot even move an inch closer to them? Why? Because they have the machinery. They have protection. What about you? Can you even afford to employ a gate watchman/a gateman?

Remember, the solution to this problem is in our hands and the decision is for you and me to make. Finally, there is a Kiswahili saying that goes: Fahali wawili wakipigana nyasi ndio humia Tafakari hayo. Let the past help us build our future, let it not continue ruining us.

You are the solution.