New Environments & Comfort

'Allo Earthlings! I have been away [from my liar] for 2 weeks now, and tomorrow I'm going home!

You know something earthlings? Staying in a new or different environment for some while is actually good for you. The first few days that I was here, I direly missed home. I missed everything about my habitat. My shaggy disoriented room, my variety of yellow and bage socks, my late night eating weird habits and even my not so frequent brawls with my brother. 

I definitely love my comfort zone but I came to realize that it is alright to feel uncomfortable. Our mental states are very fragile when exposed to a new environment. That does not mean that our mental states are 'angry' about new environments? They just need some time to adjust.As a creative person, as a business person, partner and most importantly a learner, you are not new to different environments. As contradictory as that sounds, it means that you have gone through a lot of experiences that have made you learn about yourself, others and even things inanimate. New environments and the discomfort they bring only bring out the learners in us. 

The more comfortable you get in your daily schedules, the more concerned you are supposed to be. The human mind likes a challenge. It's not new to you that a lazy brain doesn't come up with any ideas. If you get out of that comfort zone once in a while, you get to see the world with a different perspective. A different perspective is just the basis of new and fresh ideas. Get out once in a while, hear what people have to say, listen to the wind and do different things like going to an ethnic restaurant and order the most 'ethnic' dish.

This week, I've learnt to listen more. I will continuing to implement what I've learnt as I go back home. Either way, I miss coming home from school, removing my brassiere and bursting into a Kikuyu Sunday School song and laughing like a mental case! Next week I will be making a To Not Do List rather than my usual To Do List. I'm taking baby steps with this Uncomfortability thing. I will not be jetting out to Fiji spontaneously when I'm supposed to be in my Business Math lecture. Well, not that I think of currently.

Well, I might just put it in mind ☻

Have a lovely time,

Siri.

Mind Your Business

 I wrote this a while ago during my Spring Break and found it under New File under New File of Siri's Archives, and thought to share it. Here you go:

As I type this, I am watching my small cousins play from a distance. I have taken a god-like position as I passively baby-sit these babies from the balcony, sipping my freshly squeezed lemonade. Baby-sit, anyone? OK. Moving on, I am not very kid-friendly, but I can handle what is required to be done. Today I have taken note of their mature behavior which I bet they hardly notice. They really do not care about what they are supposed not to care about. Why do I say that this is a mature behavior? It is because grown folk should do this but they end up not doing it. 


"Nosy adults!"


They are supposed to care for what is worth their time and other such related dynamics. That roughly means family, friends, work and their well-being. You and I both know that this is exactly what happens in a model world somewhere, but not frequently on Planet Earth.

I have slantingly noticed that most people tend to mind other people's businesses. Somewhere sometime, I believe that you have witnessed people [if not yourself] minding other people's businesses. This is done universally if not gallactically [Aliens are pretty nosy. Literally. I watch TV]. It does happen in various forms, and the two ways which I have observed are: gossip and judgement. I will briefly elaborate this just to make this post seem lengthy, and just maybe relevant.

1.) Gossip

I will not Google this word because it is not as fun as it was when people thought Google was an 88 year old clever Widower from Britain, who retired somewhere in Githunguri to teach English. Gossip needs no introduction to the human beings as it is currently taken up as a talent and even worse, by impulse. Gossip is an age-old solution to the problem of boredom. If boredom was not the problem, it was driven by lack. Lack of things other people had; envy. That has always been a conversation starter/ ice-breaker in whatever context. 


For example, Mama Joji [her neighbours in Githunguri are not fans of Western names. Yes, they just aren't!] was bought for a customized probox by her husband, Baba Joji. First, 'customized' in this context means it came with a speed governor and second, it better have been from Baba Joji. Baba Ninja [it's a boy!] has been darting his eyes around the areas that her leso sway and well, Mama Joji has that female instinct: Noticing things very quickly. So as Mama Daudi and Joy, the lady who thinks 32 is the new 19 and a half try to understand the new jargon Mama Joji has been using in the Women's Merry-Go-Round meeting that include words like parking, 'oiro', hiking petrol-prices and 'shockomsoba' [Shock-absorber], they watch her drive off, leaving a what they thought intentional smoke to speedily kill them so that they do not enjoy future cars from their husbands. They then unleash, yes the talk of the year.

"Joji hata Hajamaliza University! Joining the army was a clever way to hide those genes of stupidity that his mother passed on to him."

"I know! Baba Joji angejua! If he knew how Mama Joji agrees to be looked at by Baba Ninja's eyes! Hajui!"

For the keen readers, you noticed the audacious use of gossip that I did in the example above. That is just proof that gossip can easily be taken up. And just like any other skill, after a little practice, it definitely becomes perfect.

2.) Judgement

It is easy to judge others after taking one jab of judgement at them. Often, we find ourselves not comfortable with what others do or even say. From these points, we judge the sacks out of them! While judging others deeds and actions in the name of giving our opinions or the 2 cents they did not necessarily ask for, we mind their business. This is done by statements like this:

"I was just minding my business and I realized that you do this and that in a way I do not really agree with..."

Hold it! Have you just said that you were minding YOUR business then gave me your opinion on things related to MY business? How coy a sentence starter! That is arrogantly assuming that others asked for your 2 cents, which they did not ask for and therefore do not need. Harsh but true.

It may prove just a tad bit hard not to want to listen to the nosy neighbour's bathroom incident but you have succumbed much more tempting things. Like wanting to pound the character who decided to spell the word 'Riddimz' with two letter D's [face-palm]. 

         Have a lovely week, 

Siri.