I wish I was a mountain

By: Kenneth Muhindo

Kampala- Uganda

Worth Noting:

• True they replied the other mountains. It is so sad that the young boy goes through hell for his gender is on fire, poor him. Mountains we are nonliving things we don’t move but we are proud because we are always together ever and forever unlike humanity.
• This world God created it for us and everything in it is there for a reason be it seasons they are rainy and dry seasons and crops need both seasons to grow and produce fruits so everything God created matters, even us mountains we matter in this world, no one is supposed to hate the other cause there are not like them and make them feel un comfortable making them depressed and wanting to exit the world.

Once upon a time there was a young boy who was a tomgirl in nature, he used to come to me to seek comfort after going through a rough day, he was called Christian but nicknamed Christine because he was girly. Christian had turned me a mountain to an emotional dumping space, everytime he would climb on me up to the peak, he would come to cry out his heart and express his emotions. I use to think he would come to me to tour and appreciate my beautiful scenery nature and the snows on me just like other but not with his case. As many would climb on me and go back praising my beautiful scenery nature and say what a beauty mountain Rwenzori is, the snowcapped mountain, the mountain of the moon they would call me.

Christian would climb up to the peak and solilicate on how his day went, he did this on his bad days especially when he was bullied by society for being a tomgirl, he was nicknamed girl names, he was discriminated against, picked on and sterotyped for having a different sexual orientation.

One day Christian had just come from a job interview crying and lamenting how he didn’t get hired because some panelists asked him if he is of a different sexual orientation because his girly nature, he wondered how sexual orientation has to do with work.

He also added that where he is working currently he was told to resign if he cannot behave like a man he is physically and his employer said they would risk losing clients because of his girly nature and clients would interpret that they had a homosexual as staff and would not buy their goods,  he would continue to cry and say that he was once given a retake at school by a lecturer who never liked him because of his nature, he would say is it a crime to be born androgynous, am told to associate more with the male gender than the female but when I associate with them some people will think they are my partners yet a human being like another human, when I associate with girls they again say they are making me more a female than male.

I don’t understand why whatever I do is always bad yet even other do the same are not criticised like me.

I would feel pity for him everytime he came to me and cry not knowing that even me a mountain I  have ears and the sky has eyes too, if  mountains could speak I would have helped the boy and tell the world to stop gender based violence. He would cry and say I wished to have been a mountain he would say “I wish I was a mountain “. I wish I was you mountain Rwenzori.

” imagine me” a mountain all these would not have happened because mountains don’t meet but people do, they are some people you meet and you regret why you met them, he would say God I wish I was an island or even I wish had everything at my back and call, I would cut my ties from people and be a lone and stay away from people,  “oh I wish I was a mountain,  really interrupted the other mountains, how can you say that there are some human being who admires to be us yet we also admire to be like them, for them they move and meet their mates but for us we are in one place we don’t  move, we don’t even see our fellow mountains.

The mother mountain replies be grateful for us we don’t move and we are together in peace and love each other, we are happy together and share love laughter and sorrows together that’s why we don’t move we are there for each other unlike humans who run away from each other and are scattered and dispersed. They keep moving from place to place, this shows that there is no love between humanity but us mountains we are in the same place forever and ever.

True they replied the other mountains. It is so sad that the young boy goes through hell for his gender is on fire, poor him. Mountains we are nonliving things we don’t move but we are proud because we are always together ever and forever unlike humanity.

This world God created it for us and everything in it is there for a reason be it seasons they are rainy and dry seasons and crops need both seasons to grow and produce fruits so everything God created matters, even us mountains we matter in this world, no one is supposed to hate the other cause there are not like them and make them feel un comfortable making them depressed and wanting to exit the world.

Human beings can still do much better than that so that statements like I wish I was a mountain are un- heard of and make a world a better place for all.

Sexism is gender violence fountain

Advocacy can break this chain

If we maintain it

In the end Gender equality is obtain

And humanity is where we pertain

The desired goal is attained

And we close the curtain.

So I have a plan says a mother mountain, let’s make another mountain, so that when it erupts people will run away and gather together regardless of whom each of them is, and help each other. They will love each other as a family of human beings as living things.

Boom an eruption occurs.