Category: Richard Mwebesa

Patience can sometimes feel like a punishment. Oh yes it does have its own sting. Waiting is not fun. It has its shake-up which is very unique. Growing up I learned how to go fishing at Lake Victoria. I tagged along with our house helper. In all I learned that…

Hopelessness is a weapon the devil uses to disempower God’s children. This is a feeling of ‘there is no way out’. Hope and patience are partners. They embrace each other and provide assistance to each other. A person that is hopeful is a patience student. In December 2016 my wife…

I saw my World’s best support, anchor, confidant and fan waste away. Day by day I would wake up to a nightmare. It was very painful to watch my mother who had fallen sick deteriorate each day. Among the people I have ever met in my life that I considered…

What is in it for me? He asked.  Why should I come here or go there?  The modern marketers value social capital. They say it can be monetized to have contacts and know people who know other people in a particular place. I have come to learn that most people…

Expectation is the heartbeat of disappointment. Without expectations disappointment never would be alive. Disappointment stings, some would rather say it stinks. It is a common constant to say that it only comes only and only where there is expectation.  Every growth mindset maverick will tell you that without disappointments there…

Neuro biologists have it on record that the one of the human senses is the sense of feeling. This can be confirmed through touch. Sensory nerves send signals to the body that are interpreted by the brain when one is touched. Touch can be used as a means to draw…

Passivity is strategic if applied in particular specific scenarios. It’s the ‘let it slide’ kind of approach. It has its place. Many may interpret it as a lazy do, but intentionality positioned for a specific outcome or result as desired it delivers. One fundamental technique in the growth trajectory is…

If words had weight or didn’t, then there would be no phrase to qualify words as empty. Does this then mean that some words are full, half full and others empty? I guess the answer lies in the hands of the recipient. Empty words tend to be qualified by some…

 “Alas, my master! For it was borrowed!” he exclaimed. I have been reminded by a very close acquaintance that lenders never forget their borrowers. The lender may seem as though they don’t mind about the loan you took or anything material you borrowed or the time when they lent you…

This month of June 2022 I shall remember! I reconnected with my secondary school best friend Javis M.C. It was 23 years since I last saw him and met face to face. Life had taken us on different paths. When I arrived in Mbale City I called him up for…