Ever had a week you struggle waking up? I have .Somehow the sleep seems too sweet to let go easy. In the morning when i am early I like alighting at a short distance further from work so that I can walk. When late , I normally board another bus to drop me at the gate to work. This was that day when I decided to take a bus to save on time. Before boarding the bus I always have to inquire the route they will use because there are two routes. We all know during school holidays the matatu's are many and most will be scrambling to get passengers. When I inquired from like three conductors they said they weere going to use a different route I wanted. Stranded I went to board a matatu that was close to the stage only to get a rude reception from the stage managers,(so i thought). Madam, usituonyeshe vile tutafanya kazi, ( Madam don't show us how we will do our work) , shouted the conductor. And with that he slammed the door and told me to board the minibus as it would use my route, which I did. When I was almost arriving i I informed the driver to stop but he drove past the stage and when I noticed this I quickly informed him i need to alight." Madam nimesikia nakushikisha" he shouted back, the voice was familiar. The same man who I had an experience with earlier was the driver. I alighted feeling very agitated then I asked myself what I was doing and talked myself out of the agitation with a daily lesson.
You see my friends, there is so much going on in the world today and whether we like it or not we are in the world and have roles to play physically outward. We are bound to meet naturally rude people and see things that aren't right. However being physically there with all the drama doesn't mean we allow it to affect our inner world. We may not have control of the outer world but the inner world is our control. I had the option of holding on to the ill treatment I had gotten but I chose to maintain my peace. We need to always remember that we are in-charge of the reaction of other people's action. The driver went on and perhaps didn't know he was rude or if he knew he didn't care. If I continue to be angry at him I will have a bad day and give him too much power.
Always remember that when someone does something to you that isn't right. The power of it hurting you is in you. How long we continue to suffer over other people's ill or good treatment lies in our control. Why then do we continue to punish ourselves by taking in the outer world into our inner world?
Liberate yourself and experience peace.
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