23

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Life is hard but still easy

One minute you are so proud of yourself and the other you do not know what life is all about

You feel like you want to cry but you find no reason to do so

Tomorrow looks so hopeful but today is not coming to an end

The boy you hopped to marry has suddenly run off with the “best friend”

And you know what!..... You have to look for planB

You want to work and make your own shilling but do not want to be confined in an office somewhere for 9hrs

You want a full time job that sustains your expensive lifestyle but everyone is asking for experienced peeps

You want to attend every upcoming high end event but you live with your parents and your wallet is empty

You want to buy those awesomely manufactured classy pairs of heels but parting with 5k that you do not have is a pinch

You have to skip several lunches so that you can go for the Nairobi restaurant week to post the epic food photos on instagram too

Your friends are getting pregnant and you still not sure whether to give it up, what is the right time and who is the right person

Is there really a right time and a right person?

Others are already married by come we stay and you can barely make your own meal

You feel too lazy to cube onions and tomatoes… so sandwiches of bread and ham are your daily meals

You doubt that you can cater for another person because your pile of laundry is hipping at the corner of you room

On your mail, an e-cards of one of your high school bff’s wedding

Who is marrying you and yet I have no boyfriend? You often ask silently

Mere jealousy and excitement all at the same time

Then you want to be Mary Jane smart successful but not sealing other peoples husbands

You want to have your own empire but don’t know how to set it up

You finally work the logistics out but they guise more to the odds of it succeeding

You are so passionate about success that your fears boil up your dreams and you are afraid of taking any step forward.

You burn the midnight oil trying to look for a future for your unborn babies

You get old Ben spying on your ass but to you old dogs have no teeth to bite

Young Ben don’t look at you because you too expensive to maintain they say

All you need is some respect and someone to say I got ya.

You got enemies right and center and few friends on the left

You don’t understand why they are cruel and those mean have nothing on you

You become afraid to making it in life because you feel you will lose the ones on the left too

When the streets get too hard for you … you think of moving to the side ways

Till morning when the sun rises then you remember the streets are made for you

You have dined in the best hyped lounges and you do not understand what the fuss is all about

You have found him but you hope that you still have time to dilly dully

You are afraid to commit just so you can have the chills when your phone rings.

Your instagram is full of shots of the good site you have visited in your long life

At 23 the memories of yester night make you hope for a better tomorrow

At 23 they all see potential in you but you keep doubting yourself.

At 23 tomorrow is the day after today.