A mutant’s journey The Road not taken. Robert Frost I never dreamed of being a teacher or anything really. I wanted to be an engineer like my father, and the key word here is father. But my Physics teacher told me I was pathetic. Not his exact words, but they may as well have been. He didn’t dislike me he just thought that I wasn’t cut out for it. The thing is we will never know whether he was right or wrong. He wasn’t the first teacher to tell me I wasn’t good at something. In primary school, our Arts teacher advised me to drop Art as soon as I could (it was compulsory in Primary). He was right, I suck big time at Arts. My son could draw better than me when he was only three. Now that I think about it, could it be that the art teacher killed the artist in me? I doubt it! Even I am not able to that theory. Anyway, after my Engineer dream was shattered, I decided I was going to be a lawyer or a shrink. I didn’t need any help shattering my lawyer dream. How ...
This is a place where I pen my thoughts, write about my experiences in life and most importantly where I share information about my projects or as the great professor Wangari Maathai, called them "My little things". Her little thing was "planting trees" , conserving the Environment. A passion I share too. My little thing is Empowerment and basically the desire and will to make a difference. As Maathai said " I will be a humming bird, I will do the best I can".