Make Merry During Christmas but Remember that 2017 is Waiting

Christmas is here again. People are in a celebratory mood. Some are dancing and some are singing. It is time to eat drink and enjoy. Simply, it is time to make merry. Make merry ladies and gentlemen but remember, 2017 is waiting like an angry and hungry leopard to pounce on you.

Christmas comes once but a year. You miss this one, then you have to wait for another eleven months and 24 days to have a taste of another. So, your merry making is justified. Go ahead. Make merry. Eat like there is no tomorrow. Spend like you will not be there the following day. It is your time to eat and you have to but again, 2017 is waiting.

This Christmas season, as it is the norm, many Kenyans travel to their villages. It is always time to retrace their roots and unite with their families ‘back home’. It is at this time that bus fares are always at the peak but that is not a problem to most Kenyans who are always determined to get ‘home’ no matter what. All public service vehicles heading to the ‘villages’ from either Mombasa or Nairobi are often fully booked despite the hiked bus fares.

To most urban dwellers in Kenya, going back to the village during the Christmas season is a must. They rather remain bankrupt than remaining in the city during this festive season. They have to travel and they have to spent money either on themselves or to family members. This is the time that some urban dwellers in Kenya want to arrive in the villages in style including hiring private vehicles to go and ‘lift the dust’ of the village.

Go ahead. Hire a big car and travel to the village. Entertain your friends and families. Go to the villages, make your presence known and become even more famous than the local MCA but remember, days are not static, 2017 is coming, it is coming fast and you will be back in the city with yawning pockets curling your tail like a rained-on chicken.

As if to make you, the merrymaker, more financially conscious during this festive season, Dr. Fred Matiang’I, the Cabinet Secretary for Education, the only man who is working more that the whole of the Jubilee administration, released the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results early before Christmas. Matiang’i did it on ‘purpose’ so that as you make merry, you put in mind that come January, your daughter or son will be joining a secondary school and that you will have no reason whatsoever of being broke. So, again, make merry, celebrate but remember, Matiang’I did it and school fees is waiting for you.

Young men and women, this is for you too. It is that time of the year again that some of you, come 2017 will be regretting about this Christmas. Some of you will be pregnant, some of you will be looking to secure an abortion and some of you will be running up and down looking for ARVs and the year will be hard on you. So, young people, as you smoke that shisha, as you release that voluminous smoke into the air, as you make love without any protection, remember, it is not only that day but 2017 is coming and it is coming fast.

As I pen down, ladies and gentlemen, make merry. There will be no other Christmas until next year but remember, 2017 is watching! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

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