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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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Community Workers; To what extend would you want to freely serve the community? How will that secure your future?

Has it ever occured to you that you would want to undo all committments, let all goals wallow and live like a spirit? Sometimes thoughts come up; You would want to leave your job, keep off from friends, deny a certain lifestyle and start living like never before majorly because the present way of life suffocates your brain. I am on that fence.

To be a sociopath seems the way because I am admiring M.E. Thomas in her book, Confessions of A sociopath. To be empathetic to beggars on the road may make you blind to the passing Benz- dreams worth to chase. To forever think of communities (I am a social worker who tends to think I can eradicate inequalities) will make me think less of self and advancement. In readiness to register a CBO, among my few questions have been, how will community work secure my future? If I was a choir member in a church, I'd not been thinking this way. 

Is it too late to harden the heart? Son of Soil should work to please his people. But will he please them when he has no resources? And what about if the people are not pleased...will I not hung self by the legs? The thought is to harden.

To harden is not to trust the heart but to commit the brain to doing away with barren stressors- working for the community for free. For if there is a god in charge of morality he should  wait for my child to enroll in a strike-free private school before asking how I got my wealth. 

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