Friday, July 23, 2010

Letter to my 13-year old self: Girl Version

Wasup girlie!

Ok.. I was tempted to call you ‘kiddo’ but I know how much you hate being referred to as a kid. Trust me, when you are all grown up and away from the ‘nest’ you’ll wish you were a kid all over again.

Young girl, the sleeping sickness never went anywhere. Don’t ask how I’m managing without someone around to yell at me in a frantic bid to get me out of bed and make it on time to work (yeah, I’m confirming that you are going to be yet another grumbling taxpayer in your future).

Seeing that you’ll be doing your KCPE exams this coming term, I advise you to go through all those revision questions in the Malkiat Singh textbooks, especially GHC. Oh, and that English Aid textbook will also come in handy in your future career. Speaking of careers, I know you always envisioned yourself as an astronaut in the future. It’s never gonna happen. In fact, there still ain’t any African lady astronaut.

As a consolation from the above revelation, you’ll be glad to know that you’ll still be a big cartoon lover in your adult future. Note the highlighting of the word ‘adult’; it’s because there aren’t many of us who still watch cartoons in adultville. Tom and Jerry, Samurai X and Johnny Bravo still air! Yaaay!

Still on TV matters, guess what? Catherine Kasavuli still graces our screens on prime time news and looks as beautiful as ever! Eve D’Souza still rocks the air waves at Capital FM though she now presents the morning show. On the flipside of things, can you imagine that Neighbours and The Bold and the Beautiful are still around? Seriously, these fellows need to get with the programme and start familiarizing themselves with the likes Leverage and Gossip Girl (oh, these are some of the shows that will be airing in your future).

As you join high school next year, you’ll be relieved to drop that nickname that guys have insisted on calling you since eternity (since you’ll be in a totally new environment). Bad news though; you’ll quickly acquire another one for reasons you’ll never really understand. Damn! Just when you thought you’d adopt to actually responding to your real name!

One last thing. You see your current height? Well, that’s as far as it goes. You’ll probably grow an inch or two but no one will really notice. Having said all that, my parting shot: just work hard and look forward to the future!


Yours truly,

Me.