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How Alcohol Steals Away Your Life (And that of Your Loved Ones Too)

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How Alcohol Steals Away Your Life (And that of Your Loved Ones Too) Negative effects of intake of alcohol in large quantities. I was angry, very mad. It had taken the last toll on me and I swore that it will never affect me again. My dad had just come from his drinking spree, and started pouring insults on my mum. We were really young by then, my siblings and I could not do anything about it. We could just watch as our mum, shed tears-day-in-day-out. But, on this particular day, I was so mad. I was angry at him, I was angry at the bar owners from where he got this deadly drink. I was angry at the manufacturers: anyone who made that drink had pissed me off up to the neck. I had watched my mum suffer because of it from a young age. She used to cook food stuff at the roadside, so that we could eat and get an education. Back then, life wasn’t expensive, and the inflation rate in Kenya was manageable. A huge chunk of my dad’s salary went to drinking alcohol; before long he
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3 Common Causes of Death Worldwide 2018

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“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”     ―  Lemony Snicket ,  Horseradish Death is a subject that we all know very well, yet we dread it so much. The painful experience that follows after the departure of a loved one can’t be compared to any other. We are born together, live together, love each and in just a few seconds, the journey of a dear one comes to an end. Sometimes it happens abruptly, other times, we get time to be prepared but it’s never accepted easily-no matter the amount of time given to us. This is a
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After All, He is Dying: Is There Anything Essential He can Give?

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2 Kings 13:14-20a,                   14 When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"                   15 Elisha said to him, " Take a bow and arrow." So he took a bow and arrows.                   16 Then he said to the king of Israel, "Put your hand on the bow." And he put his hand on it, then Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands.                  17 He said, " Open the window toward the east, " and he opened it. Then Elisha said, "Shoot!"And he shot and he said, "The Lord's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Arama; for you will defeat the Arameans at Aphek until you have destroyed them."                  18 Then he said, "Take the arrows," and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," and he
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4 Tips on How to Handle Debt Repayments at that Crucial Time

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Statistics show that 80%   of Americans are in debt , sadly, this does not apply to Americans alone. It also applies to you and me. I have a load of debt that I have been carrying for a very long time. It all started accumulating slowly, and before I knew it, I owed people lots of cash including financial institutions. With no income to cater for the repayments, it reached a point that I couldn’t sleep. It had become too much. At some point, it even broke my marriage. Thank God that we were able to reconcile-but am still in debts. There are several mistakes I made long the way and I believe that you could be making the same mistakes-though innocently. It would have been easier to tackle them at the beginning and maybe I would have completed my repayments by now. When taking a loan, or borrowing from friends and family, you are optimistic that things will turn out great and that you will be able to repay them back in the stipulated time. The deal is sealed and th
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How to Change the World by Being the Best You

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Life can be really discouraging sometimes. You look at yourself and wonder what is it that you are doing wrong? The truth is, there is nothing you are doing wrong, apart from; comparing yourself to others. I was caught up in the same web until recently when I changed my perspective and decided to look at myself differently. It has taken quite a struggle to be able to accept myself for who I am, learn from the best and do what I can to change my now and my future. For the longest time, I dwelt on my past. A past full of failures and, disappointments. A past filled with doubts and low-self esteem. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror. I saw myself as the ugliest person on earth and if anyone at all thought that I was beautiful, I told them that it was a lie. Growing up, life was not easy. Being the first born in a family of five, I had to work and take care of my siblings most of the time. My life revolved around school and, doing house chores later after school. I
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Let the Past Go – Forge Ahead!

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How was your childhood? How were you treated in your family? You may have had a great upbringing; loved, taken care, full of life and happy. I had a mixture of the two. I had a great life and a bad one at the same time. I have never known who my biological dad was; maybe I may never know him till my last day on earth. Being the first born in the family, this came with responsibilities. I was the care taker of my family. It was not an easy task. In the African culture, your siblings are your responsibility; you look after them like your mother does. Wash them, cook meals for them, and clean their clothes. In the village where I grew up, we had no washing machines, no gas, and no money to buy charcoal. Everything had to be done manually. I had not time to play. It was constant work, work and work. I thank God that I was a clever child, still am. I could understand all the lessons very well in class and I didn’t struggle even when it came to the exams. I remember one day, I was take
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THE 6TH IDIOT- AN INDEPTH LOOK AT LIFE!

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Last night was not an awesome one to me. My son has been suffering from coughs and high fever for some days now; last night was the climax. He kept tossing and turning in bed, till 5.00 am in the morning. I couldn’t sleep; I stayed awake to watch over him. Too bad for me, I was expected to report to work by 8 in the morning; so no sleeping time for me. Despite leaving the house thirty minutes early, I arrived late at work. Why? I had to wait for the bus that passes our route; its shorter and most of us (employed here), prefer it.   Some minutes to eight, I decided to pick a motorbike. Wasted time and wasted resources. I ended up paying double the fare. My day had already been distracted. I reached my desk, switched on the computer. I was not in the mood to work on anything so I started staring at my colleagues. Everyone was busy working with their hands but their minds were really far. I could tell that they are thinking about doing something different, somethi
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