Breaks and Accelerators

It has come to my realization that I am a lazy writer, that I write when I feel like it, and at the moment, I have two unfinished stories that have the capacity to be mind-benders, but why have I not written them, you ask? Because I haven’t been feeling like writing them. Because I am on a long break. Because I don’t like being too hard on myself, I will say that I have substituted writing with reading and watching, as they give me roughly the same hit of dopamine when I finish reading a book in a day or a season in a week. FYI, at the moment I am watching The Penguin, and damn, that is a well-written show, and while I loved the OG Gotham show, this is a good rival to that, and their fight in my heart is going to be legendaryyyyy! 

Anywhoo, because writing a new story takes time, and after a bunch of excuses here, I am going to borrow some wisdom from my previous lives on my previous blogs. Also, when you have time, listen to Ginger and Vanilla mixes on YouTube because so far they have never missed! 

Let’s get to it, shall we? I wrote about breaks five years ago! If you don’t recall it, please read it through the attached link that I mentioned a few words ago.

First off, I used to love those glasses! I wore them anywhere and everywhere since they were my first aviator glasses, and if I dare mention it, the first tangible items I had that made me feel cool. I think the left thing that goes behind your ear broke, and I was heartbroken for a while. The vacation was nice and after staying in Nairobi for a while, I might be considering moving to Malindi or a beach-side county just to enjoy how slow life is over there. Plus I know the rent will be cheaper, though I just have to be careful about pirates who I can’t calm down by saying, “ Are you ready kids?”

IMO, I can say that living in Nairobi is not worth it because I have been privileged to live in Nairobi. It’s like a millionaire telling you that money is not the answer to everything, but to me at the moment, money is literally the answer to 99.99999999% of my problems. So you get how my statement might be somewhat biased and skewed, right? Anyway, I digress. Back to what a teenager me had to say, gentlemen, shall we?

So yeah, a lot of stuff happened in 2020. I shaved my hair, and if only I knew that my entire identity would be tied to my hair less than three years later, I’d tell myself that my time to shine is coming. I still love Patoranking, while Jerusalema…uhmmmm not so much. However, I am more into Kenyan music, and I’ve listened to the new Nyashinski album, and I don’t get why people are giving it so much hate! From a first listen, I think it is an album to listen to when you are feeling like the world is under your feet, doing 75 kph on a superhighway. I’ll listen to it again, and I know for a fact that I will still like it. 

Yes, I have also been taking breaks. I often walk for hours on end around my neighbourhood and can confidently walk over 7 km without breaking a sweat. My goal is to walk 100km this month, and *checks notes* I am at 21km. Last month I did 88km, so I just have 80 more to go! I have also been detoxing from social media, and I have deleted and reinstalled Instagram and Twitter more times than I have walked 10km in one day. My friends hate me for that, and I am so sorry if you see me online for two minutes every week — most of that is often work-related. 

No, I have not decorated my room or my house. Why, you ask? Decoration needs money! Everything needs money all the time! Nyx bought me some clothes recently, so I can say she has the wardrobe section sorted. I mentioned that my break was from 3 pm every day? Boy, you don’t know shit, because that’s when you actually clock in at work! How ironic! 

I still ask these questions, “When’s the last time you had a good time and didn’t care about doing the dishes afterwards? When last did you just wake up without feeling groggy about making breakfast? When did you last just sit down and breathe peacefully without someone bothering you?” My answers for each are as follows: The last time I had that good of a time I was brought home at around midnight because apparently I had so much fun that I am still the main character with the people I hung around with that night; I haven’t made breakfast in months because while I often wake up at around 9, I prefer having a full meal instead of making a snack in the morning because I’ll have to cook yet again and that’s just a lot more dishes to do (maybe if I have guests I’ll start thinking about breakfast again); Nowadays, no one bothers me because I am very quick to delete numbers and protect my space, and I try my best not to bother people, too. 

Also, I can’t really emphasize this any longer, but just take a fucking break. You’ll thank me later.

While I still advocate for taking breaks, also bear in mind when and where to break and accelerate, particularly when walking around town, because I despise slow walkers more than anyone. 

From Me to You

What more can I say? Remember to take a break before you have to take a break! To the October babies, I hope this month you never get a headache, and all your dance moves come to life the way you envision them in your head. Also, may your tissue never finish in the middle of an international emergency and may you always smell amazing! 

Before I forget, Nyx for sure is today’s date because she is 10/10! That’s all you need to know!

While you are on your break, you can try to figure how I have saved you in my contact list by reading my last blog: Oh, yes, names!