#DEMYSTIFYINGENTRENEURSHIP #26 BACK TO WHERE WE LEFT

Esther Neema in Mombasa

So, I am in the midst of having the time of my life in my entire brief Career. My days are made of merry. Shoots at beautiful spaces that make me feel touristic half the time. Cruz dinners of course non-existent in Nairobi, Feasting on Chapatis and maharagwe ya nazi DAILY and Biriani on Fridays. Occasionally crossing the ferry on to the other side of the ocean, and quite honestly at this moment, this is my idea  of THE DREAM. In spite days of ultimate hunger from earning very little, but quite sufficient for a twenty something year old. Plus who needs a lot of money as long as you can see the beach daily. I realize, I need so little to be happy, and nature is one of those basic needs for me. Plus, I was just in love with the population, the teams, the office, the drama and the endless surprises daily that always left us breathless with laughter. I could feed off this. Very few times did money cross my mind.

But just in the midst of my ultimate joy, my mother checks in with her words of wisdom. Ambushed with reality check. Perhaps more than I believed to have needed at that point. My mum is a top achiever in all sense of the word in her field, and I believe her greatest concern, is that I could be satisfied with so little and I was still in the joker phase of life. All I seemed to be looking forward to were traditional dances on weekends. I easily am a village girl at heart. And I live for Bango and Brasso, and it is true, I could have easily continued to  wait for weddings and maybe funerals as is the norm of culture, just for one opportunity to dance. So I was outst out of Mombasa. Unwillingly.

I was reminded, I have got business pending, my education, yet to complete, my show back in the city and perhaps even “my business”, that I had left half way.

Perhaps it was time to go back to exactly where I stopped. Heartbreaking as it was, but so far I have learned that sometimes obedience was how to live well and better, because sometimes, which is often, Mother does know best.

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