OF BIG THINGS AND SMALL PEOPLE

 OF BIG THINGS AND SMALL PEOPLE

It has taken me more than a quarter of my life to learn how to eat with a fork and knife. A few important meetings that I attended were pure stress. A plate of rice, beef stew and salad accompaniment that would normally take me 7 minutes 34 seconds to finish ended up taking me close to a painful one hour. They called it table etiquette. Etiquette....My foot!!! I never got to understand how eating faster with a spoon made someone a smaller human being. My close friends who took the pain to train me said that eating so fast was uncouth and uncivilised. Maybe that is why i ended up not privilleged to attend many of those high end meetings. Poor me!!. But of eating, why would someone be keen on how I pick food off a plate, move my jaws to chew or swallow? Why won't these people concentrate on their food instead? Those my trainers always told me that I was making funny sounds while chewing and that got me upset a few many times. I eventually decided to please these peoole. I now use these forks and knives comfortably and faster during the only few times I am out with other people. At least am at my default settings when back to my house. Thanks God I don't eat out alot. I am privy to a few 'small issues' problems involving acquaintances, colleagues, family and roommates. For instance, I have received complaints about pressing the toothpaste tube near the opening rather than at the extreme end. How about a roommate with smelling feet who removes the shoes and the whole room smells? Annoying or? The perfectionist brigade and their wannabes cause the human race the most problems. Why did you not clear the table after breakfast? This bucket is not supposed to be put here but there. You ironed the shirt yes, but the left arm has more than one iron box folds. You were at work the whole day and didn't find a minute to call me? You didn't go to the toilet? You couldn't spare a minute to write me a text? You are not a caring husband. How do you dip bread into tea like a child? Really??!! How could you forget my birthday? How does salt get used up without your knowledge? What kind of a wife are you? How do you bring me to Mombasa for honeymoon? All those your working years? You couldn't save for Dubai or even Zanzibar? Really!!!?. The questions and surprises are spoken again and again. And so, are friendships, relationships and marriages broken. For small things. For the mole hills that are made into mountains. And those small things are made too much of a big deal, even beyond the person of interest. Friends, relatives, colleagues, fiancé's or even partners are belittled. They are made small people in view of the small issues made into mountains. What to do now? Maybe pray to the God of Songs 2:15 so He can 'Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.' Shouldn’t we ask of God's help? What thinks you?

@Stephen Mungai