LIVING A DOUBLE LIFE.
One day I was sitting in a room with my then two friends, and I remember we were puffing on Manchester cigarettes one after the other talking about life. As I drew my hands into a box sachet to pull another cigar out , my friend, Max, looked at me and asked me a question that made me look into my life. He asked, "Val, why do you live a double life?" And before I could even think of an answer, my other friend Zue said, "Sai unavuta kuvuta, the next minute billboards ziko all over Nairobi zikiread (niko smoke free) na picha yako apo" I looked at them with guilt then uttered some gibberish words "me siishi double life.” I immediately took my bag said goodbye to them, and left. As I was walking to the house I had rented not so far from school, I got myself into an inner talk and asked myself so many questions like How did I get here? What led me to being in a situation where there are many images that I portray t...