Mkala

Windfall income is desired by many people. It can clear the eighteen months overdue loan, and make you stop worrying about the eviction letter you just received from your landlord. It can also give a Moroto Slums resident all the confidence they needed to take a *high maintenance lady* for a coffee date at English Point Marina, or just transform Mkala's life overnight.

The windfall income recipient may start pretending to understand what Grant Cardone meant when he said, "Money can't buy happiness, and poverty won't buy you anything." No one will even dare to condemn that pretending tendency. Who cares when your money does the talking? 

Mkala was fully aware that true transformation comes from within, and there was no history from his lineage that assured him it can happen overnight. An argumentative lady once said that true transformation is a long road and there are no shortcuts. 

Some individuals proclaim that they are born to suffer, others strongly believe that difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations, and then there is Mkala who continually wishes for a route that defies the status quo. Both difficult and long roads sounded the same to him; it was like listening to Lucidious and Eminem. I guess even Meek Mill cannot tell the difference. 

Long roads are tedious, and shortcuts are overrated. Mkala knew that it was time to choose a side. He wanted to listen to a different sound, preferably short and sweet. 

Mkala always wished for a road that is as straight as six hours after midnight, but that wish never came true. The only straight thing in his life was his sexual orientation.

Sadness could be seen all over his face. The soccer analysis he did never paid off; he lost the bet again. Moreover, he lost the money that was set aside for rent.

Mkala was confident that he would win big. The fellow decided to stake all the money that was left, not knowing he was giving in to overconfidence. Overconfidence has a painful way of making smart people to never bother taking calculated risk. 

The illusion of a *sure bet* brought more trouble: The arrears of rent won't be cleared, he hated himself for knowingly choosing the shortcut to acquiring more money, he felt a sudden efflux of anxiety from the heart to the current state of his finances, and if Christ Jesus appeared to him and said, "Mkala, let not your heart be troubled," it would completely make no sense.