What is the big secret?

5:45am the alarm goes off. Yet another day of struggle; Yes it is Friday but for the next eight hours I am going to be incarcerated in an office somewhere. It is already a battle to wake up, another to choose my dressing for the day and the greatest of all, finding a means of transport then the Nairobi traffic. Am already wishing that this day ends!!!

My father on the other hand woke up at 4:30am and by the time my alarm goes off, he, had left the house 15 minutes ago. We both will hustle through the day, with him doing more than me. All day in my working room and him in the field; I will have my lunch, he might not have the time for it. 

I leave at 5 pm heading for my evening class. I grab a cup of coffee and go stare at the lecture.  By the time I am chucking class, he is there waiting for me. I find him deep asleep in the car and am troubled to wake him up. Just to let him have some rest. Its 9:30pm when the gate is being opened for us as we get back home. Am too tired to eat and he looks like he has just woken up in the morning.

How do you do it fathers? How do you manage to go through such a hectic day and still smile? I don’t want to have a meal at the end of my day because it probes me to converse with my family members; yet all I want to do is sleep. And there you are giving stories to everyone like you have been idle the whole day! 

How do you do it fathers? How do you manage to wake up the next day looking energetic and enthusiastic for life? All other mornings as from Wednesday, I wake up looking like I have been hit by a bus. Or like I was night running the entire night!

How do you do it fathers? How do you find the strength to still fend for your “little” all grown up girl? If I was given your shoes I would have kicked me out of your house at the age of 18. I would spend all my remaining days on earth lazing in the coach sipping my wine.

How do you do it daddy? How do you wake up every weekend and drive up-country? Don’t you want to sleep the Saturday away instead of going to run up and down chasing the goat out of the farm? Don’t you want to turn up in Kitengela all alone and have beer while you relax?

How do you do it father? What is the big secret? What energy booster do you take? Where do I buy a big heart such as yours? How do I posses such great love to sacrifice so much? Whom do I buy from such great wisdom? How do I get to be like you? When will I be mature enough to have your characters?

It 10:30 pm. still on Friday but my day has felt like a week. Am too tired to go up the stair case and am contemplating on having my night on the couch. I am willing to have the mosquitoes suck up all my blood for this one night. They deserve a feast too, once in a while. But you daddy!   You need to tell me which planet you came from!

 by *TyeMB*