Tomorrow remains unknown

Tomorrow Remains A myth.

It started many years ago in a small village in Machakos.It is believed that a child once born, happiness is seen upon his/her parents. Happiness or sadness remains a myth to every child born by a woman. Life doesn't guarantee for once happiness or sadness but it gives us hope that tomorrow it shall be better than today. Once upon a time, my parents were happy and we as children we were happy hoping that everyday things will be full of happiness. Then one day morning it was never like any other day we used to see, my mother was in full of tears and bitterness. Then mother`s love for her children she couldn`t tell us what had happened to her.

Days started changing from time to time until one morning my father called us and told us that wherever you shall be taken you stay there no what will happen. We were awakening from a sweet sleep of early morning without even washing our faces or taking our breakfast. It was never like any other day we used to have! That day I saw my father, not the same father I used to see every day. He was very hungry in that he couldn't allow us to stay with him anymore.

Then he said to his young brother," Take them to their grandmother to stay there with their mother".

In my mind, I saw tomorrow never same any more having changed with the twinkle of an eye. We followed what our father had said went to stay with our grandmother. On our bags we carried our clothes even before they had dried they were all wet but could we do as we were following our father's command.

At my grandmother's home, things were tough every day. We could end for two days without a meal. You could find me sitting in a lonely place thinking about what tomorrow holds. In my questions, I was not getting any answers to them.

One day we woke up and grandmother told us she will be going to find a school for us to continue with our education. Then she was able to get a school for us but five kilometres away from home. The only school we had used supposed to cross Season River for us to reach to school.it was tough especially for me since I was the youngest. If I oversleep I could find my elder brother has already left us me and my sister I used to go to school crying knowing that arriving late it will be a bad day for me and my sister. Things become tough and tough as we continue with our studies until I managed to complete my primary school.

When we got our results for our national exam I had not passed as expected but my mother told me that tomorrow shall be better. I kept asking the same questions time and again what will tomorrow provide us like family. Will tomorrow provide for a better life! Will tomorrow be different from any other day! But I had hope that it shall better that today.

As always days went by I completed by my high school and I passed my final exams not as I expected but still the same tomorrow not fulfilling my heart desire. We started filing for national identity cards to enable us secure jobs for better tomorrow but this took the time not as we expected. After one month the identity cards were out and we were requested to go and collect from the station we had filled the same.

Journey for searching for better tomorrow started but what I could secure as the first job was washing dishes for a hotel of my uncle where I was paid as little as three thousand shillings. I thought coming out of school my tomorrow will be better but remained a myth.