WHY ASBEL KIPROP SHOULD LEARN SOME FEW LESSONS FROM THE LATE SAMUEL WANJIRU.

Of late I have been very keen on one of my Friend and namesake and  it is only a fortnight ago  that news coming from my village indicated that my friend has started Wanjiruing in my local town going from one bar to the other threatening night guards and kicking  any ass he comes across.

I even wonder where he gets the energy to humiliate and disfigure old bones and hard-life-stricken villagers who are simply wasting their lives away in the night cold for their families  to get food on the table.

This one is not coming as a surprise to me and anyone who knows the lavishly living athlete to be having extra energy at night when he is not running .From the look of things this behavior is becoming similar to the one we have heard of  a man who wasted  his life  at an early age for a  simple reason that he couldn't  use his medulla oblongata to his advantage.

I have read this book on Samuel Wanjiru titled "Running on Empty" and I have some few lessons that I want Kiprop and his ilk to learn.

First of all let me recall the last moments of the late Samuel Wanjiru, from the book Wanjiru started drinking  irresponsibly, he changed women like shoes and became so violent. He could carry a gun and at some point he would spoil for a fight, I remember not from the book an incident in Nakuru when Wanjiru beat  the hell out of a petrol station  attendant threatening that he would blow his brains  if he  was not going to serve him.
The police case when he was changed for possessing a gun illegally was one of the the incidences we heard  about a man who brought fame to our mother land.

I can still recall another incident though not very clear in my mind when he ran over a bucket of tomatoes that a woman vendor was selling beside the road   and instead of apologizing to the old mama he went head and insulted her calling  her names ,he even told the helpless mama that he would  buy her a whole plantation of tomatoes.   

  Those are the few incidences and since this my piece is not about Wanjiru but  the lessons I would wish anyone with such character and timidity of going from Bar to Bar beating helpless people and threatening innocent wanainchi then I present  my ten points from the Running on Empty Book as follows.

Lesson 1. Alcohol ,Poor management of one's emotions , unplanned  wealth,immorality  will lead one to his or her early grave.

Lesson 2. lifestyle is not  wealth,Wealth is people and respect is not demanded but earned.

Lesson 3.Fame and Success is not to be used against others, poverty can fight back.

Lesson 4.Your status is not known to everyone, there are those who don't know the meaning of status.

Lesson 5.Women will destroy you if you don't know that there are those who  are after your money.

Lesson 6. Ethical conduct is very important,it is the way society demands of  us.

Lesson 7. One can become a prisoner of his or  her own success.

Lesson 8. One of the main destructive forces in our lives is our ego.

Lesson 9.You cannot borrow your friends brain to use.

Lesson 10. Proverbs 16:18 Pride comes before a fall.