The Mt Kenya Times 
By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- Whenever you see your colleagues in that faraway place who are living with their families you wish if you had such an opportunity.
- Any controversy that may arise out of your conversation keeps haunting you as you are unable to easily find a quick fix compared to those who are in the same physical location.
- In quiet spaces alone your thoughts remain undisrupted so anyone you think about you can thoroughly review your interactions with him from the first day you met up to now. This will see you love that person a lot or hate him as you could retrace all your interactions and clearly see what kind of a person he is.
The Each time I think I have created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space….. Wole Soyinka.
Of late due to changing economic situations people have been forced to travel long distances in search for livelihood at times to locations where they are unable to stay with their families due to high costs of living or the husband and wife working in different organisations that are far apart. External observers have their say about such situations with some alleging that either of the couple who is working a distance is neglecting the rest of the family. The well paid party is the one who is likely to be working in the distant location and the other party is fond of accusing the partner of not search for a suitable job position in that new location.
What the complaining party forgets is that being alone in a faraway place does not mean that the rest of the family is not in your thoughts in fact it concerns you more than when you are around them as anything you here about you have to verbally verify as you cannot go to inspect physically.
Whenever you see your colleagues in that faraway place who are living with their families you wish if you had such an opportunity.
Any controversy that may arise out of your conversation keeps haunting you as you are unable to easily find a quick fix compared to those who are in the same physical location.
In quiet spaces alone your thoughts remain undisrupted so anyone you think about you can thoroughly review your interactions with him from the first day you met up to now. This will see you love that person a lot or hate him as you could retrace all your interactions and clearly see what kind of a person he is.
When the boss stays out of office alone for a prolonged period he constantly thinks about his office and wonders whether it is functioning properly failure to receive strange communication whether phone call or email assures him that all could be well and at the same times scares him as there could be easy replacement if someone else is able to run the office as efficient as he used to do. This happens mostly to those bosses who have no plans to move to other institutions.
In places outside home alone perhaps relaxing then you see someone who resembles a person you know especially a family member or a close relative makes you to think deeply about that person you know. If the one you are seeing is doing a good thing you just hope that his lookalike too is doing a good thing but if misbehaving you are worried that the other person could be behaving exactly the same.
Regular thinking of someone who you know but does not have his contacts or you rarely talk keeps troubling you as you cannot pinpoint what is bringing such memories in your mind and you cannot directly talk to that person to ask what is happening to ask as he will seek to know the reasons that are driving you to enquire about him.
In general we can say that having a person or people in your mind does not necessary require them to be next to you physically.
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