IMPECCABLE SOCIETY

By Lynn Kolongei

It was once a spotless, blameless, flawless, perfect and immaculate society. A society that shaped one into the physique desired and adored by every nook and cranny. A society it was that embraced all its children under one umbrella of love. However, time has elapsed and things have changed since change is as good as rest. In this century has seen the emergence of yet another society. A different society, no longer impeccable. Unfortunately we have changed for the worst, witnessing erosion of our cultures and annihilation of our morals and codes of conduct dictated by our elders. Due to this, I can say that it is a fact that old is gold.
There are things that now take the better part of our lives wasting our valuable time for nothing. Many events and stories now trend in the social media platforms. However, such stories could not even be imagined in the minds of those who got the chance to have a glimpse and taste of our past society. It is a safe bet to say that our society is now rotten due to many issues arising such as hate speech, sex, alcoholism, and theft. All these can be grasped as moral decay forgetting not insecurity that has been realized everywhere in our larger society; the globe.
To begin with hate speech, it is incredible to hear that nations now speak ill about each other. While we thought the 21st Century would chip in with greener pastures the opposite has been realized. It has been as they say receiving a snake while you have requested for a loaf of bread. No sooner had we brought colonialism to an end than we trusted that peace would now be talk on everyone’s lips. Peace between various nations and races knowing that we all “the blacks and whites” are the same: all with blood beneath our skins. Recently, whites and blacks still fight, for instance, USA presidential aspirant Donald Trump has spoken with venom about African society and especially Kenya. This he has done, tarnishes Kenya’s international image. Seconding him is Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe taking a dig about Kenyans stealing. Can you imagine some other foreigners saying that your country is full of lazy people only good at love making and that hell was designed for them as they think there will be room for love making in hell? Some of their sentiments could be true but where did the good neighborhood spirit of helping a dying friend go?
Alcoholism has been another great challenge such that finding a teetotaler has become so difficult. Even the young people drink to the point of death ending their lives before enjoying the good thing that life can offer. This alcoholism has left millions impecunious unable to affect anything in terms of basic needs. One could be caparigeed and smart but later in the night sleeps in a ditch. A woman was reportedly said to have been seen bathing in the public while drunk, could she be someone’s mother or darling wife? Alcoholism leads to so much fornication, among the young people and especially the university students. High school students too sneak out of schools just to have that drop of alcohol or maybe a gulp and end up being drunkards and sex addicts. Men especially in Nyeri concentrate more in drinking forgetting about the women at homes and children. Other than many ladies chopping off their husband’s pubic parts, many marriages have fallen, broken causing divorces and separation, the children moving to the streets as paupers.
Moreover, theft has been realized in our societies from the top rolling class to the bottom pupil cheating in their examination. With that I allude to a case that was witnessed in South Africa. Kenyan ladies abundantly blessed by mother nature with perfect body pants and 5 senses were caught stealing meat and hiding them in their clothes. Various government officials have also been said to have stolen billions of money from the government, a fact that many have denied terming themselves as pure, innocent humans faithfully serving the nation as faithful pet dogs.
Insecurity has become an issue difficult to handle. You cannot even dare trust your own sibling because everyone has become like an infantry ready to deceive you with a planned rise. Terrorists like Al-shabaab, Boko- Haram just to mention a few have caused great tension and lack of composure among people. In addition, many people have lost their lives without a clear cause of the death apart from marks due to stabbing or a corpse without a head.
All those vices were unheard of in the ancient times of our forefathers. It is therefore possible to eradicate them and once again go back to our roots. It is time that we go back to basics, follow the code of conduct in our societies and have that alluring society without a fleck. # Back to our roots.