“Saliki Chama is a fool! Saliki Chama is Mr Bean and Mr Bean is mad” These were the words of the song my year one teacher taught everyone in our class. Very soon I started hearing this song around the school, the most annoying thing was that this song had a very catchy tune to go with it. Everyday my self-worth was been eaten away, I was known around the school because of this song so as you can imagine I did not find making friends very easy, in fact I did not have any school friends until I was in my third year. What I learnt from this experience was that if I did not want people to make fun of me I should hide away so that is what I did for a lot of my life. When I was about 24 years old realised that I was doing everything to avoid pain, I was not willing to stretch myself or put myself in situations that required to express myself, I realised that if I wanted to change my life I should stop avoiding pain, this realisation transformed my life.
Is the lack of talent holding you back? Is it lack of connections? Or is your dream impossible? Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! You are just trying to avoid pain. I know some people who are single and would love to be with someone but because they were betrayed by someone in the past they refuse to take the chance to live the life they want. I went from worrying about what people thought about me to standing in front of people and sharing my journey because I got more pleasure from sharing my journey. Pain is part of life, you can never avoid it but a lot of people try to avoid it and in doing so they avoid pleasure as well. Stop avoiding pain and you will step into a pleasurable lifestyle