Boys are stupid

Todd Harris Goldman's cover page of Boys are stupid

While in primary school, one of my friends once confessed to me that in their family, they never partake of anything apart from ugali at supper time. He was thirteen and we were about to do our final exams before transcending to secondary school. In high school we were only served with Ugali with either kales or stew every other supper time.

After matriculating to campus, I came to witness this queer tendency one on one. My roommate was forced into this tendency due to the caliber of friends he kept. These friends had illusions that partaking of ugali would solve their colossal appetence for victual. I remember the sufuria they used to use; damn it was one of a kind and had been bought specifically for ugali.

Why do some people stick to some dietary regimens that are usually archaic and exacerbate tribal jingoism? It really perturbs me in this time and age that some guys cannot take anything apart from ugali served with greens or stew for supper.

 

Boy who feed on 'ugali' every night for supper

As a teenager, getting involved in tantrums and engaging in truancy was part of adolescence. There was a friend who took his to the next level. A seasoned kleptomaniac, he would wait for women who had taken some time to freshen up and it is this time that he would ransack their handbags and confiscate come of their hard earned shekels. This was during the Chama meeting that women held on a monthly basis sometimes in their house.

Boys will be boys. I have come to understand that it is very hard to change some aspects. Even men in their latter ages who come together also behave brutishly. It does not matter who it is. Take the example of former American president Lyndon B. Johnson; he used to sometimes conduct two businesses at once.

He would summon reporters and his cabinet secretaries and aides and have them follow him to the bathroom where he would continue with the conversation that he had started. If such acts don’t border on idiocy, am afraid I am not well versed with the lexical intent of the word. 

Boys are stupid, I said it. The stupidity however varies from one person to the other. There are those whose insanity is so vile that even condoning their acts become unpalatable. There are some who will act doltish even when times do not allow. This is the lot that does not care much about the air around them. They engage in uncivil demeanor much to the chagrin of those who can’t excuse this lunacy.

This reminds me of this drunken guy who let the reigns of ale control his mental coherence and body sanity. He had fallen on the stagnant water while walking back to his dwelling. Such kinds of people don’t qualify to be called residents. He was caught on camera trying to stand up but he became servile to the drink he had partaken. He tried to stand up but each time he did, he fell on the dirty water. Worse still his trousers were falling.

Boys have queer characters. To them life is all about making a statement in the wrong sense. Take note that there is a difference between those who are bestowed upon titles, those who give themselves titles and those who earn titles.

Boys give themselves titles. Sometimes back I was engaged in the construction of a building. I remember a certain mason who called himself ‘engineer’. He was an engineer alright in the sense that he was able to build the house, methinks the title is earned after study. The same applies to the fortune tellers and wizards who engage in clairvoyance and themselves ‘Doctor so and so’. If you have not earned a title or an institution has not conferred you the honors, don’t pride in being that as it will relegate you to being a boy. Men and gentlemen are the only ones who earn titles.

There is this lot of boys who also like to argue with women. If you find yourself exchanging unsavory words with a woman and you are a man, think twice. Women never lose when it come to verbal diarrhea, they may lose in the nascent stages but when the heat becomes too much they never lose. They hit below the belt or on your Achilles heel to secure an advantage especially when it is a man they are arguing with. Sometimes as a man it’s worth it to keep mum even if the pestering is irksome and irritating.

Boyhood stupidity is like a disease. It may be manifested also in behavior and petty talk. There are those guys who are stuck in the ideology that their parents or their siblings are the people they revere. You will find a grown up person bragging how his father has been able to amass a lot of wealth, how his brother is someone of repute or a seasoned businessman yet while bragging about all these, the bloke can afford nothing but gibber. Truth be told, unless you inherit anything, struggle to make ends meet or be the subject of discussion and not the other way round.

But I cannot admonish all boys. There are some who have made the world a better place by even thinking of making it so. I may not provide clear examples but boys usually transform into men. Remember that this is a man’s world. Men call the shots. Out of boys we get men. While in high school, our principal used to call us ‘boys’. I bet I am qualified being a man. I have earned it.

SITUONANE.