03/04/2025
Bro, nikuambie kitu na usijam?
Please leave that small town you call home before it kills your dreams.
I’m saying this as someone who gets it. That town where you grew up… where everyone knows your name, where life feels comfortable… it can also be the place where your dreams slowly die. And not because you’re not smart or hardworking, but because nothing around you is pushing you to grow.
In most small towns in Kenya, life moves in a cycle. Wake up, do the same things, talk to the same people, hear the same stories. You dream big, but everyone around you is thinking small. And when you start thinking differently, they look at you weird. They’ll even laugh at you. “Umeenda Nairobi sasa unaringa?” You start feeling like you’re too much… and before you know it, you shrink your dreams to fit in.
But take a look around… most people who’ve made big moves in life left their comfort zones. Whether they moved to Nairobi, Eldoret, Nakuru, or even abroad, something changed when they left. They met new people. They saw different lifestyles. They got exposed. And that exposure opened up their minds.
When you live in a new place, you learn how to stand on your own. You make fresh connections, find new opportunities, and you start dreaming bigger. Even socially, you grow. You interact with different cultures, different ideas, and you become sharper. You can’t get that by sitting at the same base, playing cards with the same friends every day.
Yes, it’s tough out here. Rent, hustle, loneliness… it’s not a joke. But that struggle forces you to level up. You learn discipline. You learn how to survive, how to lead, how to plan. And if you stay focused, you grow into someone powerful… someone your small town might not have allowed you to become.
Bro, you weren’t born to just survive. You were born to make moves, to break cycles, to build something your children will be proud of. So even if you don’t have everything figured out, start by leaving.
