25/07/2025
IT FEELS GOOD TO BE CARED FOR!
Last year, around this same time, I travelled to Kigali.
One of the items on my agenda was to meet this incredible 👇👇 gentleman in the photo, a man I had not seen for nearly 12 years.
For I had learned that he had comeback to Africa and was in Kigali at the moment.
So I was really excited about seeing him again, but I was also anxious. Not knowing how to reconnect after over 12 years. Had he changed or was he still the same as I remembered🤔
Fast-forward, my flight landed l Kigali around 3pm, and after settling in my hotel, I sent him my location details. An hour later, he texted me that he was at the hotel lobby.
My pressure increased, anxiety and excitement battled through my heart as I raced down to the lobby...
Behold, there he stood... gentle, handsome and composed as he always was. It was as if nothing had changed on him all those years.
He greeted me with a warm hug, and the first thing he asked me was, " Where's your sweater?" "I didn't bring one" I responded. After telling me how Kigali would be very cold at that particular season, he took out his own jacket, gave me and took me to go shopping for warm clothes.😊😊
He got me a beautiful and heavy black jacket, (my favourite till today), and then took me shopping for fruits and snacks and other necessities. After bringing me back to my hotel, he gave me some reasonable amount of cash before returning to his Base.
That day, I felt like a child, I felt different. For over 8 years, i had been the caretaker. Attending to every other person's needs, worrying for others, breaking my bones to care for othwrs, yet No One cared for my own needs.
But on that particular day, For the first time in a very long time, someone actually took responsibility over me and my needs. Someone worred about me and took the initiative to attend to my need. Then i remembered, this was my elder brother, 12 years later, he was still as caring as I remembered. Though it was only a day, it felt like forever, a memory that stays fresh in my mind.
It felt good to have someone else care for me
🩷🩷❤️❤️
Thank you for reading 🤞🤞
