Unfortunately I have no memory of how I met Charles. I think
he came to exist in my world at the same time as capuchins – the long I have him known is equally the long I have known the capuchins. I will simply refer to
him as Obama the master. I refer to him as the master because according to me,
he is the master of his life. Few of us determine where life leads us, he does.
One person who can predict his pieces with precision. He knows where every
piece will fall in future. While most of us wait for life to happen to us,
Obama is busy making his life happen to him. That is the person I have known
for almost a decade yet I have not seen him make a mistake about anything that
is meaningful to him. I would say that if this life was a chess game, then
Obama has more pawn and he knows very well that pawns grow to any other piece
including to queen. He protects his pawns well more often for the good of those
people he cares about.
When we were very new in this capuchin way of life, he acted
as our elder brother for a month – it was a very long month. It was necessary
that we listen to his advice. So one evening I asked him if according to him I
could make a capuchin, he laughed at me saying “Rich maisha yetu ni difficult (Swahili
ngumu kwa mjaluo) lakini wewe utafaulu, kwanza unakula chakula kidogo kama paka,
huna shida utasurvive hapa.”
Since then I have been surviving probably because of his
prophesy!!!
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