The powers that be may not be very happy that from a full day training workshop, my biggest take-home is not something that I learnt in the workshop but rather some memories from a little over a decade ago.
Really, I couldn`t help it. I mean, how would you react if from across the hall, 10 minutes into a training workshop, you heard the voice of a friend you haven`t met in years?
That`s the mammoth task I had to deal with yesterday morning and it made me feel like I was 10 years old all over again. I was just an average primary school pupil backin 2007 when perhaps the most significant event of my childhood occurred.
The divorce of my parents was the first time that I decided to take the driving seat towards my destiny. But I couldn`t have done it all without this man here, Panashe Kandemwa.
He was one of the best students in the class and my close association with him took me from the back end of the top ten to the front end of it in less than a year.
From 2007 to 2010 (the years that laid the foundation for whatever I am today), we were literally inseparable and did a lot together. We sat next to each other in class at Ringa Primary and Secondary schools, walked to and from school together, played “chikweshe” and football for the school soccer team together, herded cattle together, and did almost everything else together.
We even had our first attempts (and limited success) at girls together.
The only exception was perhaps on the closing days of the second and third school terms. We both wanted to be numero uno but one of us had to settle for second at the end of each term.
I had forgotten all these beautiful memories from a time that I wasn`t sure that I would pass my ordinary levels and didn`t dream of attending university one day.
It`s a pity that we never had any pictures of us taken together back then but I am happy we have one now.
Here is to Panashe, one of the best friends I have ever had.
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