We all fall in love sometimes. It is inevitable. Experts say that you fall in love once, and if you are lucky, twice. Well, I defer. Why? Are those experts in my heart? I bet they don’t even have an understanding of how I love of what kind of character I fall in love with. Lately, I have learnt of not trusting the experts, but rather creating my own path, going on my own journey and perhaps the experts can write about my experience.
We all have a liking for young couples walking in the streets holding hands,smiling, buying flowers being all in love but we forget about our parents and grandparents. Today I was inspired by one old but very beautiful couple. By the look of things, these two have all grown up kids, no mortgage, no school fees and not as much bills to pay as they used to pay in their thirties. They look just happy and blissful. I am never a stalker but on this one I had to be. This couple walk hand in hand talking in low tones and finally get to a restaurant, I still can’t believe am doing this. They sit at a table across to mine, and since its a cold evening, all cloudy and cold winds blowing, I order the mluhya chai (this kind of tea is assumed to be very hot in kenya) and chapati. Well, its not my usual cup of tea. This one is large and not usual melamine but large and metal and painted blue….😋this is Kenya and i adore it.
I sip my tea slowly as I continue to watch “my couple”. Now I can hear their conversation and its pretty amazing. I can’t help it but smile deep inside.
Wife: Unajua(you know) I like it when you take me out like this. It reminds me of when you used to sneak me out from home and we would go eat mandazi and chai kwa mburu (at mburu’s place)
Husband: (laughs) nakumbuka(I remember) hiyo wakati ulikuwa (that time you were) very playful really slim. We had good times
Wife: unakumbuka ile siku kulinyesha(do you remember that day it rained) and you had to take me home?? (Laughs)
Husband: (laughs) eeh, (yes) we were so wet! Your mother almost beat us both. Unakumbuka vile tulifungiwa kwa nyumba ya mbuzi coz she thought ulikuwa na ball yangu?! (you remember how your mom locked us in a goats’ pen coz she thought you were pregnant)
They both laugh so hard I am also laughing under the table now
Guys! My tea is finished! Its sometime to seven in the evening and its raining. I promise I didn’t even hear when the rain began. I decide to walk out briskly and pretend I was not in the middle of this couple’s conversation.
I am moved, so challenged by this couple that I want to be the man and the woman at the same time and have this kind of a relationship. I am left wondering how such relationships are made. Well, my relationship is great but I pray to get to such a deep memorable time. Am happy they are happy. I hope that our children and the generations to come will have mentors like these. Just to show them what true love really means.
IN MY MIND 