Kabaka Ndawula
I think that the biggest misconception about gratitude is that it comes from receiving. This, again, is a church trick too. When you kneel down and thank god for your day, the Buddhists call that meditating on the feeling of gratitude. But the language that the church uses makes you believe that there is a supernatural thing out there that you owe a favor and must be thankful to. And that is why sometimes your mind gets distracted as you pray and start begging instead. Because you cannot summon that feeling of gratitude, you request it from this supernatural being. But since, when you do feel it, you're conditioned to relate it to things that went well for you that day, you start to believe that to ask God for gratitude, you need to beg that god makes things go well for you tomorrow.
This kind of witchcraft tricks your mind to depend on something outside your control. When you are raised with this mentality, the church and all the other colonial institutions construct this idea of authority in your mind. If you're quick to comply, this mindset allows you to excel in school by just believing the shit your teacher tells you. It allows you to get promoted at work by just playing the office politics of kissing your boss' ass even when you can smell the shit. And if you're slow to comply, you simply reject everything. And if you're forced to pretend to believe things that don't make sense to you, you fear everyone. After all, if you're also pretending, who isn't? At some point, the pretense overwhelms all your other attributes and you become one fake-ass body controlled by your resistance or compliance. Put a pretender in the right system, and you can get him to do whatever you want using reward and punishment. You can blame that for the state of society today. The rot begins from the spiritual realm where we force our children to inherit our Gods.
Because the God of Christians robs you of your ability to be grateful. Gratitude, when used as a prayer, is a form of worship, but you are not supposed to be grateful to some character book for the things that were done to you during the day. You are supposed to be grateful to yourself for the things that you did during the day. Gratitude is a meditation.
If you gave to the beggar, you should be grateful for that. If you provided for your family, you should be grateful for that. If you did your work for the day, you should be grateful for that. Because if you meditate on gratitude instead of praying for it, you reinforce the will to want to do more of those things you'd be grateful for, but praying just makes you a beggar. And a beggar is at the mercy of another's gratitude.
Anyway, gratitude, like pain, like horn, like hunger, like love, like beauty, like perspective, like belonging, is just a feeling. A life lived exploring gratitude will make any man happy. And the Buddhists have a shortcut for this life. Instead of praying, just meditate on gratitude. That practice will make you exude so much joy, even your enemies will want to be your friend.
Bw'ofukamira ekiro okwebaza. Tomala maanyi go nga weebaza abantu mu ngero z'abazungu; weebaze ggwe by'osobodde okwekolerako. Okusiima si ssaala. Akukwatiddeko eyo mu kkubo mwebaze, naye bw'oba wekka nga ofukamidde, oba tolina mulala gw'olina kwebaza okuggyako ggwe. Bw'oba oyagala kwebaza Lubaale, kola embaga oyite banno mukole emikolo. Kabaka wammwe Ndawula mumunyenyeze endege. Naye tebakulimba nti ebyo ebirowoozo byo by'owulira oba oyogera na Katonda w'Abayudaaya. Ezo ngero z'abazungu. Bo bamanyi kye bitegeeza kuba bwe batyo bwe bajjukira ba lubaale baabwe. Naye ggwe bw'oba nga ensamira yaabwe togimanyi, kola ggwe ky'omanyi. Weebaze ggwe kuba ggwe akoze olunaku lwonna. Teweyingiza mu ssabo nga omusamize tomwesiga. Ne bwe liba lifaanana nga Klezia, Kkanisa oba Muzikiti. Tewali kiri yo okuggyako nga ggwe empewo ze zikikweragira ggwe mwennyini. Omuntu yenna ayagala okukukiikirira eri empewo zo aba akufera.
Oyo ye Lubaale Ndawula. Ate naawe nkulaba ogenda kumala gakkiriza oba nze akuuma empewo z'ewammwe. hehehe. Bw'aba Lubaale takutuulangako oba okkiriza mu waaki? Ffenna tunoonya matooke. Bwe tunnalaba nti wayiga okwefera, naffe tujja kukufera.
Kati omusomo ogwo si gwa bwereere mugusasulire otherwise njakukuloga.
