IF WE SHOULD ALL DIE TONIGHT

Would you say that you lived your life to the fullest? That you saw everything you wanted and needed to see in this erratic life that we live? That you ticked off all the items on your bucket list? Yes even the ones you added last minute after that sit down you had with yourself and you finally decided to put yourself first and change your life for the better? Would you go at ease, fulfilled, with a contented smile plastered on your pale lifeless face as they lower your inanimate body six feet under, back to the ground whence you came??

Would you wave the world goodbye enthusiastically satisfied that you did it all and now that your time is up you have no regrets for you lived and lived fully? Or would you simply turn your back on her like she never belonged to you at some point??

Growing up I heard anecdotes about dead bodies crying, so would you cry?? Would those gathered around your casket see tears of despondency cascading down your exanimate face (I really had to, for old times’ sake😂😂. My primary school composition writing skills really jumped out😂😂) because you belonged to the 95% of the population that was simply reacting to life and not really living??

Would you fight God because your work on earth is undone? Would you resent Him for cutting your life short? Just when you were about to make it out of your home town like you had promised yourself you would that cold winter night of 20XX when you had turned 18 and life was flowery and bubbly and the future seemed brighter than the brightest star the universe ever produced. And that love of your life, the one you have loved since your childhood days. Would you be at peace with how you left things off? Maybe you shouldn’t have left him at all??

Those were the things that corona virus had me thinking about and I wasn’t having it anymore, so I did what I always do..went out and saw the world, even if the world was just my backyard. I had seen so many prepossesing pictures of Giraffe Centre and I wanted to confirm if indeed it was as marvelous as it was in pictures. Why sit in the house and whine about a virus whose origin is yet to be truly ascertained when I could simply go and hang out with the ever gentle giraffes.

With my 400 shillings in hand and a heart set on feeding and caressing giraffes I left the house and hopped on a matatu to Karen. But trust Kenyans to take me back to that sunken place that I was trying to escape when I left the house because how inappropriately they were wearing their masks did not escape my attention. What’s the rationale for having your mask on your chin, below your nose, on your forehead and every other place that’s not your nose??

Social distance is just something Kagwe talks about and no one adheres to. It almost feels like corona virus is a game that is being played on us given how our individual response to it is very subpar. I had read that aerosolized corona virus particles can remain in the air for upto three hours and honestly this knowledge was rather depressing especially when I saw how people wore their masks inappropriately. Ignorance is bliss until that bliss comes back to bite

Don’t they know that corona virus particles could be floating in this very air they are breathing in freely and without a care in the world? Don’t they love themselves?? Don’t they love those who love them?? Why would they put themselves and those they come into contact with at risk like that??

I was more than happy when I got to Giraffe Centre seeing that they were observing the precautions set out by MoH. They preached social distance, offered a hand washing station and booking was done online prior to your visit and payment made through mpesa with no extra charges. The giraffes on the other hand were tall, beautiful and graceful and they loved the unhealthy snacks we kept feeding them.

Listen to Time Flies by Burna Boy ft Sauti Sol and pay close attention to the outro cause Savara sprinkled cocaine on it 😍😍😍😍.