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Heavy responsibilities for elder aunt among the Logooli

With Seenge Fonesi. She is the elder grand daughter of Isagi and elder daughter of Amugasya. She is often present in functions involving the family of Amugasya. Pic taken on 18/4/2024. The elder sister soon becomes the elder aunt. It is this “seenge munene” (elder aunt) tag that she is tied to many cultural responsibilities – back home. To her marital family she may appear as any other woman, but she is not so in the eyes of her people. Marriage does not steal her away as it would happen with other daughters of the old man. To her, as days go and the old man and woman of the estate are dependents, she becomes increasingly present.  Her brothers also need her for almost all traditional markings. They are marrying, she needs to welcome the new wife. They are giving birth, she needs to come to midwife or “bless” the new born. They are paying dowry she needs to lead the women delegate. There is a conflict she needs to come for a hearing.  And many others. Traditions does not expect her to
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WHEN BOREDOM SETS IN

How does one write in a diary to express a boring day? What made it be termed so?
There are three types of boredom as per my notes all of which involve problems of engagement of attention. These include times when we are prevented from engaging in wanted activity, when we are forced to engage in unwanted activity, or when we are simply unable for no apparent reason to maintain engagement in any activity or spectacle. 





A day is boring when the planned activities are not occurring in succession to please. It starts when meetings planned are failed, when friends who were to attend a meeting show up late, when the key speaker in an event takes long to arrive, when pleasures take the role of responsibilities, when activities don’t satisfy expectations. In short, it is when time is felt wasted. It is not due to lack of employment or tiredness. 

A plan for the day does not involve movies in the morning, free time in the mid-morning, a buffet at noon, leisure at afternoon nor a party in the evening. When you find yourself engaging in the activities that are more of pleasure to the flesh, know that the result would be boredom. The body does not need unregulated pleasures.
Dreams and commitment to pursue highly help in assisting a person maintain a daily struggle to keep them real. It happens that one is able to plan for an activity in the day that would rather lead to some satisfaction based on the greater vision. The loss of hope and the habit to procrastinate in wait for unbecoming solution only boils dissatisfaction and lose of morale.

A bored person is an idle one. He is prone to all evils. Talk of a bored teacher who may harshly punishes a student. A doctor who would fail to turn up to hospital to assist patients. A bored social; worker would fail to attend to needy situations. some may satisfy their boredom in deviating practices like drug abuse. A bored person is a disgrace to own self and others.

A bored youth who is sexually active would least resist the flesh desires. It’s been a social problem among slum dwellers where housewives do not do more than gossiping. Drivers who get inactive at the steering wheel in many instances lead their automobiles into ditches. Who would want to witness the actions of a bored man? Workplace boredom would see a non-productive person. 

Common passive ways to avoid boredom is to sleep or engage in day dreams. One may opt to engage in a hobby that is active.  Doing exercise that would ease the body and increase blood flow would help one avoid passivity. Let not boredom pick you up for life loses meaning then.

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