THINK BIGGER NOT BIG

    Selfishness is the root of every evil, that is my latest discovery. Everyone wants to leave a good life. Me too. Beautiful big houses filled with all sorts of gadgets, the parking lots  hosting  Lamborghinis, Bugattis and jaguars.
     
    Almost everybody is busy thinking of himself. Kenya was recently said to be the third most corrupt country in the world, been there done that.  We have children with no roof on their heads, in this very country we have big expensive houses accommodating two or at most four people. school dropouts due to lack of fees wander here and there. Sickly and widowed mothers struggle mostly in vain to put food on the table. Special schools lack most necessities, despite all these, we have the audacity to be corrupt.
    "Hallo, this is Kenya, kama wewe si mjanja unaumia," we normally justify ourselves.
   If every privileged person could at least sponsor twenty street kids or come up with a mentally challenged children's home, won't the satisfaction be of great use to us. We don't have to deprive ourselves of all our enjoyments in order to help others. If I can afford a car worth 36million, why not opt to buy one of 18million then donate half to charity? 
    When your aim is to gain wealth for yourself, it reaches a point where you feel satisfied and you loose your initial oomph, but when you do it for the less fortunate you will always feel encouraged to continue and you will find yourself getting to heights you never anticipated. By helping someone you are helping a nation. In turn the whole nation will be enriched.
Don't be offended, it's not bad to think big. Think selflessly big, in other words, think bigger.  

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