Why you should marry before 40
A while ago while visiting a friend who’s married, her wife send her newly arrived maid to her cousin house which was few blocks away and opposite main gate from where they were staying. From the conversion on the phone, I could hear she was instructing the receiver on the side of the items the maid was to pick. Among the items to be pick was waruu (Kikuyu name for potatoes) and the maize flour he brought from the village. The current empty shelves of Unga (Kiswahili word for flour) have pushed people to a far reaching implication on family living in urban and towns areas. Some have resorted to “importing” Unga from County while some family had to survive on rice. A few minutes later the maid arrives with items she was sent to collect. My friend’s wife asks the girl who else was in the house. This smart way for ladies to spy on their relative to know if there are some women in the room. The maid answered innocently “Baba wa Tom, in fact, he’s the one who gave me the stuff”. My friend wife looked surprised and called whoever she has sent to confirm Mzee (Old man) present immediately. “Hey Tom, Kwani Mzee amerudi so soon?” I don’t hear the reply on another side, but she responds to the caller that the maid told her he was around to which she replies laughing loudly “Kwani ilikuwa ni wewe? (So it was you) I thought baba (Kiswahili word for father) is back in the city!” she hanged the phone promising to call back later. My friend wife confirms it was not the old man from the village who has visited but it was her cousin whom her maid misunderstood as my friend’s wife cousin father. Tom father is one of those old colonial men whom they called all relatives, clan’s men, villages and everyone he knows in the city to pronounce his coming in advance as he doesn’t like inconveniences whenever he’s coming for quarterly eye checked up in Kikuyu hospital. Whenever he’s around, he will eat at my friend house and only sleep at Toms place. I asked how old her cousin is, such that her maid mistaken him as his father. I learn he was 40 years old and still unmarried despite having a stable job, a car and three bedrooms rental house at their posh area. He’s have been worrying his parents and all relatives as large. This development initiates our topic for the rest of time I was at my friend house. Later I decided to weight on pro and cons of marrying before and after 40, but I find there is the reason for one to postponed marrying. It’s best if both runs parallel with other activities. Below is five reason why you should marry before 40.