I came across this saying “karma is a bitch” a few times while reading some comments online recently. I understand karma as a religious concept to mean “what goes around comes around”. I also understand that bitch is a derogatory word for insulting a woman. It is also a female dog.
Why is karma being referred to as a bitch? I sure don’t know. But i know it is a bad one….it can also be good. I understand karma i a good devotee to the principle of reciprocity. I feel so uneasy using this ‘b’ word. It’s so belittling. I have no choice though. All i want is to drive the point home.
This year’s fun day was a disappointment, a fact. The supposed fun was marred with frustrations. Frustrations that could have been avoided had it been tackled with a shred of seriousness
The Athi River campus was flooded with intriguing fun day posters before the event, pinned to almost every notice board. The day began with a boring chilly morning, as if to augur ill of the rest of the day. Buses left the campus later than expected. Till 2.00pm, students were still arriving. Soon they began to ask for lunch, matter fact the first thing they asked immediately after alighting. Concerning the flow of events that day, the Secretary General (SG) is a joker. A big one. It is after people are so tired swimming, others sporting, that she turns up and gets to the mic’. What she said after that was unexpected. It injured the morale of almost everybody. She talked of the caterer backing down and switching off the phone, then followed a statement like “I think we have been conned”.
The SG said all these smiling. I was equally irked as everyone else. This was a joke of poor taste. It meant one thing-no food! This brings to test her competence and way of handling things. This is the same person who attacked the previous government with utmost criticism and malice, specifically the secretary general of the time. This is why I say Karma is a bitch. You should not throw stones when you know you live in a glass house. Karma knows how to pay back dearly. Karma has a wicked sense of humor.I have learnt to respect leaders. My leaders. Since life has a hefty lot of surprises, the same mantle may fall on you in the future. I believe so. Let it be known that am not slamming anyone here but only necessarily raising my eyebrows.
It is in the public domain that there was a student organizing committee tasked to see to it that the whole event was a success and nothing went amiss, but then word has it that there was no transparency with the same. The SG was the boss and what she says is what is done. She never introduced the caterer to the committee, not even how credible they were with their catering services. The committee was working with a ghost service provider! Why go for an outsider while we have our own Ndege Tausi and Mocharo? I think some game was played here.
Then to the entire student government, they did a conclusive executive meeting the evening before the fun day. Under the presidency of the chair, how could he assent to a budget from which the catering services were missing? And what is his take on this? He was not even in the event to answer the big questions. They have since then went mute without any resolution announced to students.
Again the student government is taking the entire Daystar populace to be of bovine minds. We are not. The students own all the rights to know what they have to make up for the fun day fiasco.
