Sporadic mind

What do you do when life is uncertain but you have to wake up and live it anyway? When your medication is stronger than you thought so you wake up 20 minutes before 10am, a time you were lucky to have a researcher and scientist from work agree to an interview with you (lucky because they hate cameras and everyone behind them). When your face and eyes are puffy from the effects of the meds, yet you have to sober up. Shower, look, and smell fresh like a normal human. You have to brave throughout the day, smile and ask questions behind the camera. You were recently rejected for a job, you applied for but here you are, behind the wheel with 90% of your brain thinking of editing your CV for a new position, while the 10% focuses on the road. Sometimes it’s the little things that keep you going. Things like seeing your favorite (dream) car following you in the rears. Things like walking into your cute little office and finding the professor you’re supposed to interview waiting there b...

  Living in Rwanda as a single woman is not for the faint hearted.   Sometimes it feels like the Rwandan society has managed to spit the single girl out of its gut like a virus.   As soon as one graduates from university, the marriage reminders start setting off from all corners. It is as if the city is filled with ‘public aunties’ that are strategically located along your pathway to remind you of the next ‘logical’ step in life.   And, the place of work, which is supposed to be grooming young women into hardworking, powerful individuals that should occupy better positions in their careers are also oftentimes an assembly room for this kind of talk - How preposterous! One might perhaps think that churches are any better refuge for the single woman, but it’s probably the loneliest place for them. Different programs will be developed, for mums, teenagers, fathers, even kids, but never for the single woman. Trying to fit into these programs usually makes her stic...