Too Small For my Painting

Two years ago, I visited Uganda and had the opportunity to tour the Kabaka Mutesa palace. The place is very beautiful and has a very serene environment. It was a great feeling being around there, except for the policy of ladies not being allowed to tour the palace dressed in trousers. We had however been instructed before leaving our place of residence to carry a ' leso' to tie around the trouser. While sampling Ugandan history I came across a talented artist and purchased his art work. I love art display in the house and well the fact that the painting depicted African art made it more enticing to purchase.

The artist explained that he doesn't mount the art work because it becomes bulky and hence advocated I mount it myself. Two years on I finally thought of mounting it yesterday and settled for laminating the painting on a transparent paper. I carried the lamination paper but when I got home, the painting was longer than the lamination paper. I tried to look for a way in which the painting would fit on the lamination paper but it was just not possible. If I chose to use the same lamination paper it meant I destroy the painting. That didn't seem like a path I wanted to follow. I therefore decided to get a different material to mount the painting and it was actually a perfect fit. That experience came with a lesson for today.

See friends as humans, we come across various people with whom we look and hope we can walk together and they help us become better people of our original self. Like the lamination paper they are suited to work very well but not with everybody and being with them means one will lose a piece of their original self. The question thus arises, is it worth losing ones original self just to walk with them? Are there not another people one can walk with and not lose their original self? How effective and efficient is it to lose ones original self just to be in the company or association of another?

I therefore concluded that before allowing someone to be in my life, I will asses the orignial self I stand to lose and weigh its worth. Truth is there will always be a person that can work with our original self, we just become impatience and end up destroying ouselves. My painting is still intact and looks well mounted; lamination would have destroyed it.