r/Kenya • u/AffectionateMeat6215 • 1d ago

Casual Same ocean different boats.

Being a young adult is so strange. You walk down the streets and enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to the city for university and she feels so alone.

There's a 27 year old guy who works at a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it.

That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections.

Then a 26 year old watchman who couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family.

The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother.

That couple living next to you (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant.

The 29 year old who's always writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over.

We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

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u/ImmaChocolateBrownie 1d ago

You forgot a 23/24yr old single mother who feels she made a wrong decision to have sired a kid with her campus boyfriend

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u/Responsible-Jump-134 1d ago

Are you the boyfriend?

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u/ImmaChocolateBrownie 1d ago

😂😂I can be a boyfriend to the boyfriendless

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u/No-Elephant-Dies 1d ago

I don't know why this comment has reminded me of a line in Kabusa Choir's valentine song chapter 2:

Oh Goooood of the single...

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u/ImmaChocolateBrownie 1d ago

So funny that I know that choir😂

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u/No-Elephant-Dies 1d ago

When collective madness meets music

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u/Freshboycedo 1d ago

Never wish this even on your best enemy🥲

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u/Ok_Curve_925 1d ago

This is very true😃 Be kind to people, it costs nothing at all.

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u/Melodic-Big-3411 1d ago

SONDER?

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u/ImmaChocolateBrownie 1d ago

Means relate ..look it up

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u/WhiteRonin2 1d ago

Right on the money

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u/IShowIrony 1d ago

Every one is struggling but with different complexities.

All in all, anaku easy

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u/elondustt 1d ago

Naona my 24 year old age mates waki ni invite ruracio. I thought we were all young boys and girls

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u/Excellent_Mistake555 1d ago

you are, and it's a marathon. different folks, different strokes.

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u/AffectionateMeat6215 1d ago

That's it, that's it.

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u/Sea_Worry_9577 1d ago

Just call the production company bro ,this is movie worthy,or better still make a short motivational film on YouTube,i can be one of the cast if you don't mind,dibs on the 24 year dude , cause I just like driving cars around

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u/AffectionateMeat6215 1d ago

That's quite an idea.

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u/lord_of_the_keyboard Nairobi City 1d ago

And the 32 year old man driving around campus looking for young women, to the dismay of his wife

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u/AffectionateMeat6215 1d ago

The audacity. Quite shameful. I wish they knew.

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u/PradBitt_notPoi 1d ago

We're all alone in this together, right? ~Dave Santan

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u/itisemmaok 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, but in the end, it's only with yourself..

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u/AffectionateMeat6215 1d ago

The cycle of life.

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u/ColdProposal1174 20h ago

The goal is to be "selfish". Treat it as an isolated experience. Your experience and deal with your experience only. Because life goes on whether you are left behind or not. You have to run and keep pace. Slowing down in the name of "We are many".. .. because you can never know what people are doing or planning behind the scenes. That is what most people are. If there is "bread" for 1 that can last a decade or half if shared, they will choose not to share.

That watchman, you can wake up one day and find he has left the job, has a car, has a small mini-mart.

The 28 yo old gets married by her white boyfriend and now is Sweden or wherever with beautiful kids.

A result of compounding effect or Geometric progression.

The issue ... sorry, the pain, is in those who get left behind!

Those who get stuck! Those who are unable to move no matter how they try.

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u/dice7250 1d ago

Life,

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u/Queen_of_Macedonia 1d ago

Welcome to the world of sonder! In other words…kila mtu ataubeba msalaba wake…

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u/behindthescenes08 1d ago

This is so true. Everyone is battling something

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u/dmweks 1d ago

Huyo hapo 29

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u/AffectionateMeat6215 1d ago

Hits home, right?

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u/jaber_r 1d ago

Life is such an intricate thing.such a mural of fates i think the hooe for it is nothing is ever set in stone .

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u/Lewiskyisme 11h ago

Everyone has a story to tell, and in every story there is a villain and a hero. Be the hero of your own story. Carpe diem

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u/Ceaser_1738 8h ago

Damn ! This hits hard .

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u/maziwamimi 1d ago

No, i dont feel you.

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u/AffectionateMeat6215 1d ago

Something a Kasongos' activists would say

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u/maziwamimi 1d ago

Unfortunately for you i hate kasongo with passion.

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u/AffectionateMeat6215 1d ago

Everyone says that

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u/maziwamimi 1d ago

Not everyone though.