Forget about the mantra that men only feel comfortable when they earn more than their spouses or partners. The truth lies elsewhere because the REAL MALE EGO resides in a man's size. But before you start churning out mental pornography movies in your head I sorry to disappoint you. This post is not about the size of what is housed at the junction of the lower limbs, no.
That short men are temperamental is a fact. What is least known or rather overlooked is the fact that short men have fragile egos that is often soothed with overreactions to cover for the vertical deficit. A man challenged in height makes his emotional life hell by making his pint size the frame of reference to any comments against or for him. The few who have learnt to live with such challenges end up mocking themselves and coming out the better in any relationship.
Dwarf men are very sensitive to jokes around them and easily take offense on petty things that would otherwise be wittily laughed off. Ingenious short shot men have taken to wearing high heeled shoes for that extra lift. But such creativity works for the few subtle height deficits and not the overtly above-the-ground bloke. Going to the ridiculous heights of always putting on oversize clothes only succeeds in making clones resembling statues erected in maize fields to scare birds.
Self-destructive war
Having satisfactory dialogue with short men is a nightmare to say the least. Most of them are so paranoiac about their height so much so that they would imagine that you are maliciously examining the contents of their skull by taking advantage of your length. This is rarely the case with ladies who often make the best of their sizes. True, we may be living in a patriarch world. But then borrowing a leaf from our sisters in self appreciation would be the trick to have internal peace within ourselves. That will help men immensely towards stopping self-destructive wars from within than only succeeds in robbing us of life’s little gift of bliss.
Well the air above your head is not any fresher that what goes through your nostrils. Self appreciation is the key. Making a ruckus or forming cheap mental pictures about things you have no control over is a sure source of eternal stress. Love resides in the heart and not in the height. Finding and enjoying it is premised on knowing and appreciating yourself first.
Key to overcoming negative emotions related to you height lies in being open-minded. With just some little wit, you can turn your challenged length inside out into a point of strength. If you are looking for love look for the heart and stop making one more enemy with hypersensitivity to height issues. Such obsessions only make you read malice from the lips of angels.
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Paying Ultimate Price of Being Smart
Being intellectually smart can work against you in a competitive environment especially if your opponents have gaffes as their middle names. The goofs end up sounding more natural and real while the smooth chaps takes the shape of programmed speech.
Raising the bar can be counterproductive when your competitors engage in reverse logic where instead of aspiring to measure up they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. Just ask one smooth Barrack Obama who is till smarting from just mouthing the simple work BITTER while his competitor Hilary escapes with linguistic murder by baptizing lies as misspeaking.
Trust politicians to spin any vice into a virtue. It was the British wartime Premier Winston Churchill who when caught lying countered that he was simply engaged in a terminological inexactitude. Give it to Churchill, the same bloke who turned military defeat on its head by claiming that retreating is advancing from the opposite direction.
Sanitize rot
The above examples give a glimpse of how smart leaders can become victims of their own sharpness and even worse shrewd leaders getting away with goofs of murderous proportions. On our own backyard Kibaki’s pumbavu and mavi ya kuku is so dry and bereft of any wit that it only reminds you of the village shouting matches between juveniles. No wonder he is so much out of touch with his subjects and his culture of impunity only serves his ego and nostalgia of the 1960s.
But all that is likely to change damn fast. With the present culture of instant blogs and excessive scrutiny from an informed citizenry, every word and policy from any future Kenyan leader will turned inside out under microscope. Pretenders to leadership will have no chance and Kenya will be the better for all the pain. Woe unto scoundrels weaned on offensive blandness for the time of recrimination and persecution is nigh.
Raising the bar can be counterproductive when your competitors engage in reverse logic where instead of aspiring to measure up they bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. Just ask one smooth Barrack Obama who is till smarting from just mouthing the simple work BITTER while his competitor Hilary escapes with linguistic murder by baptizing lies as misspeaking.
Trust politicians to spin any vice into a virtue. It was the British wartime Premier Winston Churchill who when caught lying countered that he was simply engaged in a terminological inexactitude. Give it to Churchill, the same bloke who turned military defeat on its head by claiming that retreating is advancing from the opposite direction.
Sanitize rot
The above examples give a glimpse of how smart leaders can become victims of their own sharpness and even worse shrewd leaders getting away with goofs of murderous proportions. On our own backyard Kibaki’s pumbavu and mavi ya kuku is so dry and bereft of any wit that it only reminds you of the village shouting matches between juveniles. No wonder he is so much out of touch with his subjects and his culture of impunity only serves his ego and nostalgia of the 1960s.
But all that is likely to change damn fast. With the present culture of instant blogs and excessive scrutiny from an informed citizenry, every word and policy from any future Kenyan leader will turned inside out under microscope. Pretenders to leadership will have no chance and Kenya will be the better for all the pain. Woe unto scoundrels weaned on offensive blandness for the time of recrimination and persecution is nigh.
Friday, 11 April 2008
The Prophecy of Gema Tower of Babel
Kenya’s ethnic-based politics works in interesting ways. PNU’s fear of ODM and Raila in particular is the singular glue that makes them parrot reactions anytime salvos are fired at their shaky camp. Granted, our political parties are carbon copies of each other and the difference is as deep as the native languages spoken by their leaders. But Kibaki took that simplistic view of parties a notch high by patching an edifice called PNU less than 100 days before last year’s polls.
The noise fro within PNU is symptomatic of a rudderless ship drifting in the doldrums and Kibaki’s will spell its demise as fast as it emerged on the Kenyans political landscape. Real political competition is won with wits. Only proactive leadership guarantees a successful political coup. PNU’s perennial reactions to salvos doesn't do it any good besides proving the fact that the party is a headless chicken and Kibaki has never pretended to give it one. The truth remains that ODM is the singular threat that galvanizes PNU into all its shades of unity. Very soon Grand Regency will be in the hands and pockets of few.
River Chania divide
Selective amnesia and application of the law is Kibaki’s forte. Even before Kenyans said Kamlesh Pattni Ringera had KACC’s guns pointing at Mudavadi’s head. That would have been a very bold move towards combating corruption were it not for the obvious mistiming. Any pedestrian political observer won’t fail to see the soft political underbelly PNU is busy looking for in ODM. They are simply furthering their propaganda of painting formidable opponents in Raila and Ruto as more polarizing so why not corner a gullible big catch to be paraded as level-headed and acceptable to both sides?
The hitherto Chania River divide will soon be compounded by Embu/Meru revolt. As it was during Moi’s time so shall it after Kibaki's presidency. There is no gainsaying the predictable fallout from within GEMA as PNU's bedrock of support once the presidency leaves the vicinity of Mt. Kenya cannot be gainsaid. The tower of Babel prophecy is only a matter of when and not if. Things can only remain the same within the circumference of the heads of Kibaki’s foot soldiers.
The noise fro within PNU is symptomatic of a rudderless ship drifting in the doldrums and Kibaki’s will spell its demise as fast as it emerged on the Kenyans political landscape. Real political competition is won with wits. Only proactive leadership guarantees a successful political coup. PNU’s perennial reactions to salvos doesn't do it any good besides proving the fact that the party is a headless chicken and Kibaki has never pretended to give it one. The truth remains that ODM is the singular threat that galvanizes PNU into all its shades of unity. Very soon Grand Regency will be in the hands and pockets of few.
River Chania divide
Selective amnesia and application of the law is Kibaki’s forte. Even before Kenyans said Kamlesh Pattni Ringera had KACC’s guns pointing at Mudavadi’s head. That would have been a very bold move towards combating corruption were it not for the obvious mistiming. Any pedestrian political observer won’t fail to see the soft political underbelly PNU is busy looking for in ODM. They are simply furthering their propaganda of painting formidable opponents in Raila and Ruto as more polarizing so why not corner a gullible big catch to be paraded as level-headed and acceptable to both sides?
The hitherto Chania River divide will soon be compounded by Embu/Meru revolt. As it was during Moi’s time so shall it after Kibaki's presidency. There is no gainsaying the predictable fallout from within GEMA as PNU's bedrock of support once the presidency leaves the vicinity of Mt. Kenya cannot be gainsaid. The tower of Babel prophecy is only a matter of when and not if. Things can only remain the same within the circumference of the heads of Kibaki’s foot soldiers.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
The Beauty of Being a Eunuch
In the heat of our never-ending circus that is Kenyan politics one often needs a break to indulge in matters personal and sublime whatever you fancy. Pressed, many can confess to hearing about the biblical EUNUCH from their Sunday school. But I can bet my lunch that this is one word many adults would never mouth even in secrecy. Why?
Being overtly athletic around the waist is one attribute that is both revered and despised in equal measure. The emotional pleasures that culminate into ecstasy are few and far between. People have killed when denied the chance to sample such pleasures or to eliminate the stumbling block separating them from the goodies. Consequently one may wonder why not cut the flack and as a minimal measure choose to be a eunuch to dispense with the entire libido business?
Emotional energy reservoirs
Well, you better not make such sadistic suggestions in the company of ordinary men lest you have you face brutally rearranged. But eunuchs have the peace of mind of engaging only in harmless fantasies. As a consequence they save themselves all the emotional stress of chasing and wanting to conquer. Such energy reservoir can be productively channelled into other ventured.
Not everybody is interested in having blood descendants. The world is teaming with more than 6.3 billion pairs of upper lips to feed. The emotionally strong can do they bit in populating the planet as eunuchs engage in more useful chores. When Bob Marley sand his hit song no more woman no cry he must have had this at the back of his mind. So if you want no unnecessary tears rolling down your cheeks you better contemplate being a eunuch.
Being overtly athletic around the waist is one attribute that is both revered and despised in equal measure. The emotional pleasures that culminate into ecstasy are few and far between. People have killed when denied the chance to sample such pleasures or to eliminate the stumbling block separating them from the goodies. Consequently one may wonder why not cut the flack and as a minimal measure choose to be a eunuch to dispense with the entire libido business?
Emotional energy reservoirs
Well, you better not make such sadistic suggestions in the company of ordinary men lest you have you face brutally rearranged. But eunuchs have the peace of mind of engaging only in harmless fantasies. As a consequence they save themselves all the emotional stress of chasing and wanting to conquer. Such energy reservoir can be productively channelled into other ventured.
Not everybody is interested in having blood descendants. The world is teaming with more than 6.3 billion pairs of upper lips to feed. The emotionally strong can do they bit in populating the planet as eunuchs engage in more useful chores. When Bob Marley sand his hit song no more woman no cry he must have had this at the back of his mind. So if you want no unnecessary tears rolling down your cheeks you better contemplate being a eunuch.
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