HOW MUCH IS YOUR MOTHER WORTH?

 


A section of Uhuru Park before disruption by Nairobi ExpressWay development. Photo by Willis Onyango 

Summary

  • ·         To achieve more in life, we need to be responsible and care for our lives and lives of others.
  • ·         Offering solutions to our various woes in life is just a matter of getting the pricing right.
  • ·         The best and most important things in life cost the most.

The most important things are beyond price. How much is your mother worth or your sister or your child?

Staying healthy and being able to care to preserve your life is priceless. Disease destroys and weakens the immunity system of a healthy individual shortening lifespan regardless of advancement in technology. Much is emphasized to take responsibility for our health and bodies by diet and exercise.

Hunger makes it difficult for growth and development both to an individual and the society. Food is a basic need. Someone who has slept on an empty belly knows no peace that comes with a sound sleep.

Everyone wants to have a sound sleep. Falling asleep easily makes people to think you are lazy or tired. Sleeping refreshes the brain. Lack of it, insomnia, or much of it, sleeping sickness, require drugs prescription and treated as sleeping disorders and may drain you cash in the process.

Having money alone is not enough. The things money will buy makes it complete. Who does not want money and the things money will buy? I guess no one. We have bills to pay. Money is the mode of transaction for services rendered. It makes life smooth when meeting the desired needs, making life interesting and enjoyable.

The desire to enjoy life fully in whichever place, makes one to forget about the problems in his/her life. Is that true? You know it better. What if someone whispers to you, maybe as you party, that life hereafter will be merry too in the next world? That’s the feeling you can’t and won’t buy because it is priceless.  

Sexual gratification: affording pleasure, satisfaction, enjoyment and fruition because of delight. They say sensation has no substitute.

The well-being of our children and family is the greatest achievement a parent is proud of. This puts smile on many faces, and makes one develop and shoulder parenthood responsibilities thus one achieve appreciation in a society.

One of the chief distinguishing differences between humankind and the animals is the desire for a feeling of importance. Human nature craves for appreciation too.

We used to say, ‘The best things in life are free.’ Now it seems to be ‘the best things in life cost the most.’

#MotherNature #Health #Hunger #Sleep #Money #Life #Sensation #Humankind

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