19/01/2022
THE VICIOUS CYCLE OF KINSHIP, FRIENDSHIP, EMPATHY AND HUMANITY.
You may have noticed upon keen observation that in Kenya today, MOST "rich relatives are good at helping strangers and ignoring their kins."
This is not just a vague observation, it's a real social observation I've made and to which l am a direct victim.
Even though am a victim, am pretty much privy to the fact that you reading this could have been a beneficiary and as such I implore you not to misunderstand me, for I don't underscore the fact that it is not bad to help a stranger.
But the whole matter revolves around the fact that today, in Kenya to be specific; the spirit of supporting and building each other has been dying and getting burried successfully.
Today, someone would only concentrate selfishly on what benefits him or her directly, and if he has to stretch a hand out, then let the help go to a distant total stranger; not a close associate.
A keener observation and further dissection into this with a sharp social scalpel (inner eye) will expose a second layer of this predicament; that there are even family members who would prefer giving opportunities of growth to their friends instead of fellow family members, while there are those people who will prefer giving opportunities to their acquintances instead of their friends then there are those who will prefer giving opportunities to their strangers instead of their fellow acquintances.
Could it be that the social institution of kinship is fast dying and fading away into thin air of insensitivity and inhumanity?
Do we concentrate on building generational wealth of a collective social magnitude or do we just build personal wealth?
I believe that a human being in himself or herself is wealth if they are well empowered and appropriately equipped.
®Flex Ke.🥀