I am heavy!
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Being pregnant with twins is the best feeling ever….to check
into the hospital and to have the doctor affirm that what you are carrying is
not just a blessing of a child, but that of two.
I am rubbing my tummy interchangeably as I type this piece.
Working towards getting a child, realizing that you
successfully got one, and rearing the thought of finally becoming a parent….to
have a being look up to you in not only more ways than one, but in all ways one
could think of….these are priceless moments.
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And so because I’m finding it hard to capture this moment
for you……mainly because I am not yet heavy with twins, but heavy with a
multitude of thoughts, I choose to draw back to the basics of the writing of
this piece.
This heaviness though!
This heaviness is like that of twins carefully sucking life
through the placenta of a mother who readily gives….readily gives….readily
gives to the children that are now her own.
And I readily give to my multitude of thoughts….
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It has been a whole year ever since I successfully put down
a piece of writing.
In the past year I could barely go beyond two paragraphs
when I began typing….whether on a bus home…..at the back of a taxi seat….or as
I strolled along the serene paths that my green homeland Kericho presents.
Pause: Let’s talk about Kericho.
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| Photo credit Musa DK |
Whoever has been to my
motherland can swear that this is a place to behold! The carpet of green tea,
and if you’re lucky you’ll find sight of the purple tea lawning (this word does
not exist in the English dictionary) the land where it lies. Oh my motherland!
Sigh, Kericho, you deserve a place in heaven…very close to
the Mercy Seat.
Back to the heaviness….my multitude of thoughts that drive
me to labor…you my reader would imagine that I’m out to list down a million and
one of them here. A thought at a time, I will.
However….with each piece of writing that will come forth henceforth,
you’ll behold of my twins.
There is this tranquility that comes with knowing that you are
where you want to be at that present moment in life. I have not written much in
the recent past, but I acknowledge that I’m in God’s perfect timing of doing something
magnificent with the multitude of thoughts He has conceived in me.
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| Photo credit Musa DK |
It is almost deafening to imagine that the life one lives is
a wasted output of what others throw at you…..but a sweet victory to
acknowledge that whilst many have failed to conquer the sand thrust in the grave
as your soul is condemned to an utter standstill, you are here stepping on it
and rising above it….rising to the very ground that allows the condemner and
the condemned to fight on the same battle field.
Not being able to do what you love doing can have such
effects. Where you feel as though your validity and relevance is going six feet
under, but the beauty of it is in refusing to let it die. In refusing to let
the candle burn out.
So whatever it is that you do without being asked to….that
thing(s) that drives you to achieve milestones without the nag of a deadline….that
one thing that you are convinced is the reason for your heart to beat…..that
one person that you know you can’t live without….GO FOR IT!
Cheers to greater reads and interactions with you my dear
readers. Let’s make it happen!
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