KJ

AuthorKen Juma

Thinker of thoughts, lover of life.. and death too.

It’s ok to breakup

“You can’t have a real relationship until you are willing to not have a relationship.”Susan Pease Gadoua Just take a second and think about it, two total strangers, each from very different backgrounds with secrets and childhood issues “Fall in love” and head over to a church to promise each other to be together “until death do us part.” Stop reading, I said take a second and...

Tales of a Kenyan prostitute…

It’s almost 1:30 am and this is my first client. It’s one of them slow days. Is the economy tough or this isn’t just my night? We went back and forth on price. Almost made me feel like I’m begging him. I had to accept the amount he offered, slightly below my minimum. Yes I have a minimum, I’m 22, light-skinned, with an ok figure.. I know my worth. So I lay there, on the squeaky...

Everything comes to an end, eventually.

Empires, big and small have come and gone; The Holy Roman Empire, The Vast Ottoman Empire and even the Great British Empire are all but done and dusted. A figment of the past. Sheer memory, a distant one even. At their peak, they seemed invisible. Vast and powerful, they seemed destined to last forever. Well they didn’t, they weren’t meant to. Everything comes to an end, as they should. Where...

What if I Don’t Want to go to Heaven?

This one is going to be controversial, some sensitive people will get butthurt. So let me get some caveats out of the way. I respect everyone’s religion and right to worship. I also respect your right to get offended🤣🤣🤣. Anyways, tukueni serious. To the good Lord above, I’m just another confused sinner, with a horrible sense of humor. Now that we are all on the same page, let’s do this. What if I...

How to Deal With Problems

In a letter to his friend Lucilius, Seneca is quoted saying, “That there are more things that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” What Seneca was trying to communicate is that we worry more than we should. We worry about things that happened, things that can happen, things that may happen if other things don’t happen, things that may...

KJ

Ken Juma

Thinker of thoughts, lover of life.. and death too.

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