Truth sometimes is better off exposed in fiction.
Sabtana Kimani presented herself to serve as Village chief of a village in the small island nation of Kwidao. She was the popular choice among the aspirants, enjoying a huge support from the village folks.
Kwidao has a unique way of selecting its leader. The selection process goes through a stringent vetting process involving the elders of the village who cast their vote from among the candidates. Despite the role being a voluntary one, many villagers are interested in the village chief position. To some, it is their way to power and popularity.
Not Sabtana. She is of genuine desire and passion to serve Kwidao.
The road to being the village chief, however, would not be a smooth one for Sabtana despite her impeccable track record and vast popularity. There were a few unkind souls who had other plans and wanted to stop her at all cost.
“By all means necessary.” The opposing camp declared.
As support to Sabtana snowballed, the unhappy campers hatched a plan. They met one night and agreed to poison the villagers’ minds by spreading nasty lies. Hiding behind an anonymous letter, Sabtana’s foes spun a yarn depicting Sabtana as a woman with mangled morals and lack of education.
Some unhappy campers couldn’t fathom being away from the limelight, obviously eaten up by delusions of grandeur. They struck hard to bring her down.
Unfortunately, the demolition job was discovered. It also did not help that the character used to concoct the poison letter did not have the best reputation in the community and was involved in several anomalous transactions in the past. The bomb exploded right on the faces of Sabtana’s foes.
The story being told here is fictional. A parody to be exact.
However, it has a lot of semblance of truth in our lives. I am sure many can relate to this in their own experiences. It is not uncommon that we hear stories like this here and there. It happens for as long as their is envy, hate, and
greed for power. Add to that, delusions of grandeur.
People try to politicize things for their own selfish ends, to the point of lying to their teeth. They tell and retell the lies, one poison letter to another, believing that lies, when told repeatedly, become truths.
Envy, my friends, is a very demanding customer. It eats you up. Forces you to do the unthinkable and drives you to
the limits of rationality.
There is nothing wrong with ambition. Essentially, nothing wrong. It’s human nature.
But when ambition is borne out of envy, it can become the mother of crimes.
