THE MIRROR

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They say it’s a lady’s best friend.
I like a mirror
Because it reveals the truth as it is
If your clothes are transparent
It will show you
If you look good it will also show you
How great it is to have a clear mirror.

I wish our society was like the mirror
Where friends would tell you the truth as it is.
Not caring whether they lose your friendship
I would rather have this one real friend than a bunch of fake ones.
I need friends who are like the mirror.

Not once, not twice have I wondered how life would be
If our politicians and those running the affairs of the state were like the mirror.
Perhaps corruption would be unheard of in our country,
Perhaps the rate of development would have been great.
I can’t tell, I just wish…wish that it would happen someday.

And what if the students were like the mirror?
The government wouldn’t have to spend so much to curb cheating in exams.
How wonderful and joyous that would be!

I really really wish that someday,
Maybe not today nor tomorrow or the day after,
But someday…just one day,
That the society should be like a mirror!

I WROTE ABOUT MY MOM AND WON!!

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There was once this story told of a young man who sold his piece of land embarked on a mission in search for diamonds. He died without knowing that the precious diamonds he was earnestly searching for where in his very own piece of land. The person who has concurred my heart is not a politician or any well-known public figure. Her name is Rispher Nadongo Musumba and am very proud to say that she is my mother…..

That was how i wrote the first paragraph of my award-winning essay. We were supposed to write about the person we admire the most. I tried to source out biographies of prominent people like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Wangari Maathai to no avail. I knew I didn’t have to look far to find greatness… It’s actually within. That was when it dawned on me that I actually admired my mother a lot.

I was not sure whether her story would actually impress the judges considering the fact that she was not famous. I took courage and wrote her story….everything I knew about her. Her background, education, her job and life and what she meant to me. I wrote her story as though she was alive. Then I continued, “…even though her life seems so lovely, am sad to mention that she passed on last year….” I wrote on and on and could just not stop writing. Then I concluded, “…I may know of Barrack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Wangari Maathai and Martin Luther King and I may also know on the positive way they have impacted on other people’s lives but it is only my mother who has successfully moulded me into the wonderful person I am and the great person am going to be in future. To me her legacy still lives on.” I highlighted her life in the most positive form possible. Then i submitted my entry

To cut the long story short, my entry came first in the competition and it won me an internship with Nation Media Group.

I can conclude that there is so much that you can learn from people around you…if you only take your time.