What I need to go on

Except for a few things in my life I would not be happy. I grew up straight in a Christian family, a Ugandan mother and a Kenyan father. My past was free of knowledge of evil as one preacher would put it. I didn’t think for most of my teenage life that having friendship with the members of the opposite sex was anything great. I had learnt to pursue things that interested me most at an early age, among them being the obsessive passion to play with electronic gadgets. And so, at the age of eighteen I would find relationships as that bad staff, stuff, that bad “employee” that steals “company time” . In my little thoughts I think this was the most creative time of my life. I build a light system for my room and replaced a few things here and there that almost too many time in a row would breed trouble for me when mom would find out its Tim who’s been cutting wires! Am I happy today, twelve years after primary school? I don’t think am there, but I feel an overwhelming feeling in me to write about what puts up a smile on my face even when at times I cant literally afford to buy some rice. You see life isn’t all hard; it’s not an uphill task to find some money and get some good food to eat. It’s achievable. I think that so many people, so many times have never taken a look at what stuff would brighten their life and got busy chasing illusive fantasies in the name of happiness. This rolls me back to my campus life. My college years were only rough for a few of reasons that I knew best. I will tell you why. I never used to go out with girls, I had reasons for that. One, I rarely had enough money for myself, for the whole semester and coming to think about it, taking a classy lady out once might mean paralyzing my savings for the entire semester. I didn’t want to go flat broke on day one. The other reason is of course genuine, or so I think, I particularly didn’t want to waste a lot of time chasing girls who I would never end up with. If anything, most of the bad guys, weren’t sharp in the courses we shared. In my college mind, missing out on this essential part of my social life spelt a rough time, but I made it. Then there yet is a reason why am not as happy as I would have wanted be a couple of years after college. A few weeks ago I read a book titled WALDEN, or LIFE IN THE WOODS. Having placed my hands on this book changed the way I look at happiness. And, for the first time in my adult life, I began to discover that there are actually a few things that make someone happy. I literally took a pen and a note book and jotted down those things. I mean if those things really are making you happy, you could be suffering from a broken family, relationship, or you are fired but at least for most part of the time you use them, think about hem and own them, you remain strong to tackle and negotiate a higher level of happiness. To simplify this further, these things, attached to your life minus very other will make you feel up to abundant life. This list is not standard but at least for me, blessed and lucky, such puts a smile on my face. 1. Fellowship with God 2. A place to sleep 3. Some good food to eat 4. An opportunity and chance to travel and learn about life in other parts of the world 5. Reliable internet 6. My music( You don’t give away your music, not for a single day in your life) 7. Someone to love (I recently dropped my fiancée after realizing that for well over a year my feelings for her terribly degenerated. This can’t happen for you.) 8. Some art, coding, programming and intellectual content.