DEPP SINGLE AGAIN... n to be single again!

I started this morning, rather gray and angry. A couple of things had gone wrong and a couple of people were plainly insensitive. I looked at my phone, and there on google news was the news that Johnny Depp is on the single market again!!! After 14 years and two kids, he is finally single and hopefully ready to mingle (that last part was of course left out by his publicist). I think it is insensitive of me to smile while really I should be sad that it is an end to a loooong relationship, and that no matter what a piece of paper would have said, these two are in all intent and purporse, divorced. Which means, those two angels of theirs are going through what countless kids have had to go through when the D- deed happens.
Anyways, now that I have acknowledged my faulty judgement I will continue with my self profession. I did smile, and its at the thought of a sexy man like him being single again. Not that we hate Vannessa Pardis, but its just not allowed for one woman to own him. I guess secretly (well not so now thats It's on the internet), its the rejoicing to know that celebrities are as miserable as the rest of us. They make mistakes and they do not have perfect marriages, just like the rest of us. I guess this ultimately led me to think of marriages and the reason why people get to it. Because for all Johnny Depp's colourful love life, he has only walked once down the aisle. Given yes, he has been engaged numerous times, but that institution, I feel has remained sacred to him. It also made me think why people want to get married if they could have it easy as these two.
Recently I had a proposal, of some sort really. The gentleman said I shoud marry him. Simple as that. Now do not get me wrong, I am not a romantic and the guy, given better speech, I would be inclined to accept but I did not think marriage proposals just appeared like that. I asked this gentleman friend of mine why he would want to get married. He replied "Am of age, my mom expects me to be married". That really scared me. The was not a single intent in that sentence that actually said that he had considered marriage to ME, and neither did it even indicate that it was his own personal choice.  It was simply, he is getting a piece of paper in the CHURCH of all things.
I actually live in a country that would be enough, for I feel we live in England 17th century where a girl's job was to find a suitable husband, and that's where her happiness lies. But even then, much as I have heard of the period, the gentleman still had to profess some regard (yes that what love was defined before the ballads were set forth on us) or the lady show some inclination to have it. There must be some attraction- apart from the fortunes, to get into the arrangements. But we now have people reverting to worse arrangements than that. If I wanted such a proposal, I would gladly make my father the happiest man on earth by letting me arrange a husband for me.
why go through women emancipation at all! I fear people enter into marriages with the wrong reasons, and they take it as a refuge for the wrong reasons. I have stopped counting the number of times that I heard on the radio a woman saying how her husband had changed after they got engaged but before they got married. Yet she still went aheard and married him!!! Often they would be heard saying "Nilivumilia nikijua hii ndio ndoa" ("I was patient, saying this is marriage"), but it is not marriage yet! How could a piece of paper change anything? If he is not kind to you now, why would you see him as your better half? I do not think a half of you is suppose to make you miserable, infact, my limited knowledge in human anatomy has taught me that every organ has a part to play to keep you alive, if not happy then comfortable.
I would say, take it from Mr. Depp. If your right leg causes you to sin CUT IT OFF.

The Illogical Thinker

Most must wonder on the title, but it all makes when I do explain. 

I recently read the most amazing and insightful book on earth, for me that is, and realised I was wasting my life just drifting by. The book was called the art of creative thinking, and just to surmise, the author talked about how logical thinking trapped us from becoming exceptional. He talked of the brain as a pattern recognisition software and how that connected the dots and limited what we thought we could do.

There were a lot of examples written on there about exceptional, illogical (my word not his) people that became great men. The two that caught my attention and forever imprinted themselves to memory was Richard Branson and Mahtma Gandhi.

He told of a story of a young Richard Branson on his first start up business. Richard aspired to start a school magazine. He did not have a large capital or a network to begin with but that didnt stop him. What he did was use his school's call box to call up potential investors, after the head master rightfully declined having to install a private one for him. The most amazing parts was the strategies he used. This was a 19 year old who had not attended a business school but could come up with the best business strategies that could shame AIG. The first one was how to maximise on his capital, that is on the coins used for the calls. What he discovered was that, if he called the operator and said that the machine ate his money and he still did not make that call, the operator would then punch him through. Not only does he get a free phone call but the operator also acts as a secretary for him. That tone that says "I have Mr. Branson on the line for you...." Second, was piting competitors against each other. A good example he said was how he could call Pepsi and say "Would you like to advertise before or after Coca-cola?" Anyways, you do get the jist.

The second amazing story was that of Mahtma Gandhi. Yes, everyone does know how exceptional he was, but this I saw as way and beyond wisdom. It is said that one day Mr. Gandhi was getting on a train when his shoe fell on to the platform. When he tried to retrieve it and failed, he took off the second one and threw it where the other one fell. His fellow commuters were puzzled,  he turned and said "The poor person that would find the first one would have no use for one shoe, better he finds two"

It is simple reasoning that would be difficult for a logical mind to arrive to, for reasons you have already deduced by now. But that inspired me to have a vent of feelings, to think of all current news that come in with a critical eye and a way that I can improve on them. So here I am, willing to be the illogical thinker, for what use is there to live if you just pass on by?