THE INTRODUCTION OF RUGBY LEAGUE IN KENYA

Defiance
Defiance is defined as the bold resistance to an opposing force or authority.

Another definition: readiness to contend or resist.

I like the second one more. In either case, you know it's not going to be easy but you take up your fight anyway. You block out the doubting thomases, the ones who are afraid of taking risks and the ones who you offended by going against what they thought was the 'obvious direction'. If you've done this you know exactly what I'm talking about.

I met a certain gentleman this past week and whenever we would talk, the word just kept coming to mind.

Defiance.

The way he spoke about what he's doing now(training people to speak in public), you can see he has a passion for it. After five minutes of telling me how his classes usually go, I wanted to sign up for one. I might need the skill one day when I receive my very big writing award:). He was to study medicine, he'd already gotten his admission letter and everything but on that first day of campus something just didn't feel right. He chose not to study medicine because that's not where his heart is. You can imagine the reaction he got from his family. Outrage, I say. They just couldn't understand. At some point I wondered if he had sat any one from his family and told them like he did me about what he does now. Maybe there wouldn't be as much resistance.

But sometimes the people closest to us don't understand why we don't go the 'obvious' way. It takes a bit of time for them to get on board. It took a while for my mum to come around to the whole writing thing. Defiance has its benefits. You stick with something and you fight for it with everything in you and soon, the people you had to resist become your biggest fans.

I'd love if the world was full of defiant people; defiant in the sense that we follow our dreams instead of doing what's expected of us. So piss a few people off. Get a few people wondering about your sanity.

Go out there and be defiant.

STRENGTH AND HONOUR[Rugby Kenya League motto]

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.


In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.


Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.


It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley.

RUGBY LEAGUE TILL I DIE

Rugby League vs Rugby Union Kenya is the new stage

Friends Nor Lovers
Star crossed we may seem
Forever to traverse this realm
My path crossing yours
Even without effort from ourselves
Try as we might to stop it
With open cheating and flirting
Fights clear for all to see
That seem to hurt no one
Many years it had been
And our parting was really forced
But now that is done
It's time to have some fun
Greater heights we must climb
And more people must see
Just why it's hard to tell
Why we are neither friends nor lovers!

with lofty ideas and ideals they want to make professional, this game I LOVE. Rugby Kenya League Ltd is the new Canaan, in Kenyan Sports.