The Mt Kenya Times 
By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- Provided there were variations the teacher could treat it as a new story. It was an important session as we developed presentation skills as well as learnt moral lessons from the narrations.
- At that time to nearly all of us our greatest heroes and heroines were our parents or our teachers and to same extent our elder siblings. We liked to imitate the in many aspects of life. While reading, walking, singing or talking their mannerisms affected what we did unaware that in some of these tasks we could be able to perform better than them.
Each artist seems thus to be the native of an unknown country, which he himself has forgotten, different from that from which will emerge, making for the earth, another great artist ……………..Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
Some of the childhood memories that I have are those of nursery school where afternoon session composed of time to tell stories to the rest of the class and you were supposed not to repeat what your fellow leaner has narrated so it was your duty to enquire a lot of stories from those you interact with so that you can have something unique to narrate.
Having come from the same locality a single story could be narrated in various versions depending on who told you, how you understood it, what you can remember and how creative you are in altering it to suit your tastes or those of your listeners.
Provided there were variations the teacher could treat it as a new story. It was an important session as we developed presentation skills as well as learnt moral lessons from the narrations.
At that time to nearly all of us our greatest heroes and heroines were our parents or our teachers and to same extent our elder siblings. We liked to imitate the in many aspects of life. While reading, walking, singing or talking their mannerisms affected what we did unaware that in some of these tasks we could be able to perform better than them.
Once we matured and interacted with many people in our families and the community at large we have been able to learn many other things and chat our own paths to what we consider as the most favourable to us, have new role models but still we belong to our original families. This has brought differences in the way siblings of the same family perceive issues and react to them.
In most case we have remained united despite our different perceptions. Our talents have been honed by regularly exercising what we are naturally good at.
Among musicians if you are familiar with either of them by just listening to the beats even having not mentioned any word you can easily identify the composer as they tend to be unique.
In life too when you hear the footsteps of most of the people who you regularly interact with you can easily guess who is coming in or going away.
It is a natural phenomenon that all people do not speak or walk in the same way, are dissimilar in height, weight, skin colour and race. We need to appreciate these differences as they act as our identifiers and they come without any struggle.
Forcing yourself to do as other people do makes you to lose originality, strains you as you may not perfectly fit in their style and kills your creativity as you fail to seek how best to improve yourself instead of following what others are doing.
Have your own signature provided it does not go against moral values, promote it, enhance your productivity who knows it may be the most fashionable and you may be the role model to many while using less energies to do your things as you are applying your natural abilities.
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