Consideration

For more personally relevant figures, use the numbers you noted down in Part 5 for the calculations below.

First consideration: the life expectancy of your average Kenyan male is 63 years.

If you are 20 years old, that means you have, on average, 43 more years to your life.  Of those 43 years, you’ll spend about 7.5 hours x 365 days x 43 years asleep, i.e. of those 43 years, 13 will be spent sleeping.  That leaves you with 30 years.

Your typical adult male (see yourself please) spends 3.8 hours per day in entertainment and games (excluding sports and fitness).  Extrapolated over those 43 years, that means he will spend about 6 years of his life consuming entertainment (movies, X-box, series, PS, anime, music, online games, etc.) That leaves him 24 years.

Same typical guy also spends about 2 hours daily cooking, cleaning, washing, personal hygiene, eating…  That’s almost 3 years extrapolated, leaving you with about 21 years.

Time spent in class is very little to be honest. At 20, we assume you are beginning 2ndyear, so: 45 hours for 6 units for 2 semesters for 3 academic years totals to 0.2 years.  If you actually study and do assignments (on your own) outside attending lectures, up that to 0.3yrs.

Lastly, assuming you work for 35 years (before retirement/death), you’ll be engaged for about 7 years.  That leaves a bit less than 14 years for traffic, friends, family, love, sports, laughter, travel, pursuing your passions, etc.  14 years to be useful to your family, your friends, your country…  14 years to help your friends along in manliness.

Second and last consideration for today.

A good friend has been defined as a friend around whom it is easy (or

easier) to be good; a good society as a society in which it is easy to be good.  Same for a good country.

Is our motherland – Kenya – a good country? By and large no.  It is easier in Kenya to grow in bad habits than to grow in good habits.  And the bad habits are readily familiar: corruption, infidelity, drunkenness, getting high or stoned, promiscuity, laziness, lack of punctuality (Kenyan/African timer!), shoddy workmanship, and so on.

What can we do to turn the tide?  Four ideas, all learnt from Corona:

  1. We can be as infectious as Corona, but in our case spread the “disease”, the adventure, the joy and the fulfilment of virtue, of good habits, of manliness, by both word and example.
  2. “Infect” those closest to you, those you live with or spend most time with physically or communicate most with on Whatsapp for example.  Start a pandemic of manliness.
  3. Corona is spread through droplets – little things.  You will drag your friends along the paths of manliness through little “doses” and constant     effort.
  4. We can “infect” an incredible number of people, in a short time, through exponentials, like Corona.  Start with your 5 closest friends.  Challenge each other to live 2 weeks (quarantine) like a real man (body, mind and soul).  Then they each reach another 5 friends the following week and so on...  If all subscribers to this series started this today, in only 5 weeks we’ll have reached 1 million Kenyan youth, at least with the idea of manliness.  The practice will take longer.  But it can’t start without the idea.

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