Pursuit To Happiness

"Five minutes of fame they mocked, I am allergic to bananas they criticized, I knew that guy's screws were loose, don't make stupid people famous, such a loser..." Think of any slanderous remark on someone whose fame you are excited is coming to an end, yeah, that is exactly the stick I got! Let me give you some background. I'm from a small town of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and I was popularly known for selling bananas on twitter. My digital popularity pervaded to ground level through radio interviews, national news broadcast, front page news paper publication and blogs. I was hot pie my friend, but eventually I ate a humble pie. This fame lasted a year and a half from the time I got popular off of my first vending tweet of 2019 which got over 20K likes and over half a million views to the time I got deplatformed and shaddow-banned on social media due to culminative contentious tweets in June of 2020. In this period I made high profile friends and acquaintanc...

She's real pretty! It's an obvious thing, even from a mile away, you can see it in her walk, she walks pretty. However, that isn't the only thing about her, she's got such a healthy appearance, it's her bright potato skin, her milky eyes, her chubby pierceless earlobes, her sparkling forehead, her straight teeth, her spotless face except for the beauty spot beneath her nose of which I have one too, it's her rice sprayed hair and aloe vera applied scalp. She looks so healthy, and feels so healthy to look at, you don't know what I mean, only I understand, her aura is like a cool breeze on a hot day. It's her natural scent too, my God! How I wish I were wealthy, I'd take-out all cows and send the uncles home. Furthermore, she's discerning, insightful, intelligent and down to earth, very reserved, her instagram has 0 posts, her twitter gets updated once per fortnight or not at all, as though she doesn't have grace in her thoughts and beauty in he...

It's harder to date or find love in our mid-twenties but it's nothing to worry/rush about and I'm going to lay-out reasons why further into this epistle.  Like most late 90s kids I had quite a great share of dating experience, flings and talking stages until I was 22. After 22 the roller coaster took me down hill and never brought me back to the crazy Melissas and Pretty Nickys. I've never felt so high up about a person ever since I was 20. The climbs and downslopes are there but it's no longer as exciting, the roller-coaster just seems to be at a slow pace and no longer rises to it's extreme high. Sometimes I worry it's dating fade, do you ever feel the same? Like you've lost your stance in the game and no longer have that thing? Sigh!  Well I've got news for you, it's absolutely fine and you don't actually have to worry. It's already good enough that you've had a jol at some point in your life, you've had an experien...

If there's anything my father did best, it was making me feel important, relevant and secure. I believe all parents naturally behave a certain way which transpires feelings of importance to their infants, it is an important parental role which builds a child's esteem, confidence,  self-belief and personality. Growing up I was outspoken and outgoing, fearless as a lion the world would not stop me! I believed just by one phone call my Pops would destroy anyone who got in my way. My father lead a dramatic demonstration at the UK embassy, he gathered Africans with mutual problems & concerns in this regard and held a wide placard which I forgot the inscription but the protest was in line with the embassy refusing me Visa entry into the UK to unite with my family; Such behaviour would make even an elderly person feel important and relevant in this world. When my Pops discovered that I was being maltreated at a relative's home, with immediate effect he plucked me out and I...

People often get dizzy when we start talking numbers, my self included haha. Accounts are boring, they're mathematically taxing to the brain yet very important for scaling and record keeping. Without numbers you can't see your growth and progress, you can't see your stagnancy either. There have been many instances where my bananas failed me and I'm lying here realizing the lessons I've been passively learning that business is trial and error, and takes time. I have borrowed money from a few friends and had to pay it back in due time only to remain broke still, I understood why but I couldn't quite put a finger on it until now that I've started playing with numbers. You see there's no business which produces 100% profits after running costs, you'll be lying! Profits range between 25% & 37%. A crate of bananas is $7,50c and produces a profit of $1,80c before running costs. What could possibly be a running cost on a crate of bananas? A $...

I turn twenty five today! It's quite astounding what structure one's life can fashion into. I see kids get dropped off at these private creches by their parents during my morning rides and think to myself they are going to be so smart and amazing, they are going to excel. Then I remember I went to  a private creche in Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa and today I chase garbage trucks on a courier bike to dump a client's delayed garbage take-out for $0,25c as a courier service, I sell bananas and haybales off a scorch cart. What has become of that kid? What happened to all the bright dreams, outspokenness and liveliness? None all of this, life's current state, was planned, none! Ideally I am supposed to be pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering somewhere in Wales, living with family as well. That was the plan, where did that life's structure filter to? I wonder! I am in Zimbabwe today doing things I've never witnessed any of my parents do, and time and again...

A friend asked me about my love life last night, being articulate and making no bones about it I sent her an eight minute voice note. It's not an easy thing to be transparent about relations with the opposite gender as a lot of people are as insecure about that business as about their weight, finances, academics and the like. But for me I made peace with my relationship life's standing, I am not fazed by jeer "uyis'gwadi mampara" because I know if I put myself back in the game these okes will have nothing on me. One of my biggest fears before selling bananas in early 2019 was losing my stance in the game. I have been on this block since I was 10 years old with my childhood sweetheart, so I have my way with girls and having come up in the suburbs I've always gravitated to and landed a certain calibre of girls. So when I started selling I knew my graph would decline and that the hustle would take a huge toll on my dating life, and I did fear losing chances with ...