my story

welcome once again to swabaks blog,first and formost let me introduce myself
well am a kenyan male born 44 years ago in the coastal city of mombasa which is also the second
largest town in kenya.
   During my childhood i liked having penpals from different parts of the world,so that we would exchange
ideas stories and much much more,i believe the passion for making friends is the thing that lead to introducing this
blog today which i hope to communicate to different people so that we can share ideas.

As a child i was very quite and shy in school and in any gathering ,which i would be in, therefore it was very difficult
for me to be noticed but though i was quite and shy i had one thing which was my passion and that is sitting close to my
grandfather and listening to many stories which i liked and treasured very much and i seemed not to be satisfied since i
kept asking  for more and more of the stories,
and my grandpa would only be too happy to tell me the stories as i was a keen listener.

Among the memorable quotes i got from my grandfather he used to tell me(boy, grow up and see what the world has to offer)this quote is
ever ringing in my head and my grandfather has since died am left with the quote which i am still trying to unravel.

After my ordinary level education i stayed at home trying to learn different things including going fishing with my grandpa and learning anything
that i thought to be relevant in mylife,during my job hunt i had an opportunity of going to the army recruitment exercise back in 1984,actually i passed
through all the necessary requirments including medical tests,apptitude test you name it, at around 20:00 pm while still in the examination room hopefull
that in a few hours to come i will be an army recruit,there came an officer well dressed and well displined and shouted my name out,i replied yes sir,he asked me among the
recruiting officers here whom do you know?i said i dont know any of these officers i have just seen them here, he then said to me bad luck for you try  
next time,that was all to eliminate me in the list of recruits,and there was no time to ask why as it is known in the army you just follow orders no questions or arguments.

I went home devastated as it was already dark the time was 21:30 pm,on my way home after this incident the quote which my late grandpa left for me as a treasure came back
ringing in my head and i kept asking myself is this what grandpa really meant when he told me to (grow up and see what the world has to offer)was this one of the worlds offers?
i was supposed to be offered devastation after going through soo much the whole day? This was one of my greatest embarrasments but in my mind i kept saying to myself if this
is the offer my grandpa was refering to then its a bitter offer but then this was just the beggining of the world for me as i had not established what was the world offer, the
 life was just beggining
it was as if i was being told welcome to the world.