Letter To My Fellow 20s

Dear My fellow 20s

Have you ever taken time to think or rather imagine, what if you’ll never become rich, what if you’ll not find the woman of your dreams, have you ever wondered why things never worked out the way you wanted

Well, these are just some of the questions that many youth, especially people in their 20s just like me fear to think about.

As little kids, I always knew that by my 20s, I would have made moves in life, infact, big moves. I always knew that I will end up a very rich person, even richer than President Uhuru Kenya, Maybe richer than Aliko Dangote, Maybe I wouldn’t have been as rich as Bill Gates or Jeff Bezo’s but I was certain I would have been in the ranks of Alibaba….

Now I’m in my mid-twenties and I seem not to have a plan for all that. Every time I want to think through that I keep asking myself, where did I go wrong and that is the end of the discussion.

Lately, these questions disturbed me so much and I decided to at least think them through and see if I can get an answer.

I know many of you, especially if you are in your 20s or even early 30s, are struggling to make ends meet. We are at a point where in a few years we are going to have a lot of responsibilities and most of the dreams we had as little children are going to fade away and die.

While thinking about why I am not the person I had thought I would be, other questions came to my mind and I would also like to ask you.

What if you’ll never become rich and you’ll die a poor man or a poor woman just like the poor people you used to see when you were young?

What if you’ll end up marrying just another ugly lady that you impregnated and circumstances forced you to settle with her.

What if that beautiful, curvy, kind and intelligent woman you wanted to have was just a dream and the reality is the girlfriend you are having now

What if you’ll never get a job thus end up doing vibarua (day labor) here and there just to make ends meet for the rest of your life

It is even more painful to think, what your friends or the people you’ve known since when you were young and those you met in school will make it in life and its only you who will be unfortunate

Maybe that’s your fate, you were never to be rich.

If only you could know the end game maybe you’ll stop thinking a lot, you’ll stop working so hard for success that you’ll never see.

But we don’t know what’s ahead of us and that is why we keep on fighting and thanking God for every day that we wake up early. Maybe some good luck will come your way or maybe one of your friends or relatives will come through for you and you get a good job.

The 20s is the most dangerous period, you are not married but you are about to, maybe you don’t have kids but they are just around the corner, it has always been about you but soon you start having some unconditional responsibilities, FUCK the 20s.

To be honest, I do not have an answer to what people in the 20s should do or think but what im certain is that there are high chances of disappointments. Therefore, I think it is good to prepare for the worst, be ready for anything. No matter what, avoid depression at all cost, Stress And depression are two monsters that you should even be afraid of more than death. I have heard and seen people who are depressed and all I can confirm is that you can be alive physically but inside you are dead. Life is worth living and in the case whereby we fail to achieve our dreams, the late 20s is the best time to restructure your goals and dreams.

Maybe we will not achieve our childhood dreams because we planned without conducting a pilot study to know the obstacles that we will face. Right now you know all the challenges, you know your potential, this is the best time to erase all the dreams you had and start writing down new dreams considering the challenges you are facing and the potential that you have. This is the best time to plan you life.

That will be all for today. My name is Clinton Wanjala.