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Dreams can sometimes be tempting, you dream yourself successful, when I talk of success in my society is having a big house, a car and a brown wife with the all attributes of a beautiful woman you can think of

Here is a story of Tumaini Zawadi Pendo a young, talented poet who got saved by the scouting movement 

You see he was a very bright boy brought up by very strict parents and his childhood he spent in a boarding school 300km away from home, 

He did his primary education and passed so well despite the health issues he had he managed to be called to a national school, he had to cross 10 counties to reach his school

Zawadi Pendo is an introvert a boy brought up in pure confusion his father a retired teacher and practicing draughtsman harsh and strict a no nonsense man who always kept his word

On the other hand the mother was a primary school teacher in the local school a very strong lady she was, fair, jovial saved and practicing Catholic 

Zawadi had 5siblings and being a middle child always fought for attention he however had love for one of his sisters;he loved her so much that while he was a child nobody could ever carry him

He joined his high school but never finished in that school due to rampant strikes he was told to join a neighboring dayschool

Here he is from a highly respected boarding school to a national school now in a dayschool

He felt despised, belittled, forsaken completely shattered. His grades detoriated he got into a wrong peer got on alcohol he lost control of his life two years later he is to finish high school but he is 

Transferred to another boarding school 5km away now pushed back 2years behind his academic life

Would this break him or make him? 

Would he manage to sit in a class with students 2years younger? 

Did he have to loose all he had made for four years and move on

Would he forgive his parents

He lived with this hatred for so long

Sometimes he would talk to himself 

Laugh alone, just to ease his pains

Then, 

Then poetry saved him 

Then scouting came in 

Though his trust in people was broken

Though his heart was broken 

Though he distated his parents he embraced every pain, every single piece of it

He worked but not so hard

He managed to go for direct entry 

Confusion 😕 uncertainty 

He never has a listener but his poetry 

He never asks for attention 

Because 

Poetry has never defied him

He always believes in the most high God

Who changed him 

Who transforms the lost

Who defines and designS OUR PATHS

...   To be continued 

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