Lessons from Bob Collymore: Review your Spendings on Weddings and Burials
The
late Bob Collymore (RIP) has been cremated just one day after his death. The
final rites were private, simple and certainly cheap. I also recall that he
also held a private, simple and cheap wedding. But this is one of the richest
guys that Kenya had around. If there is anything that poor Kenyans, like
myself, should learn is the need to (re)think the amount of investment we
commit to wedding and funeral ceremonies. Take a moment to reflect about just
how much you contribute to such events like weddings and funerals and
think about how much of it is actually totally unnecessary e.g. having to keep
a body in the mortuary for days and weeks where it accumulates bills,
transporting it to rural homes and holding huge funeral gatherings; having
convoys of top of the range cars during weddings, spending a fortune on wedding
clothes including gowns which the pride will only wear for few hours etc. Do
not mention culture to me because I also know that, we have separately largely
agreed that some cultural practices, e.g. Female Gender Mutilation (FGM), are actually backward and should
be dropped already. If this logic holds then spending huge sums of money on
funeral and wedding ceremonies especially if and when we cannot afford it are
equally backward cultural practices which we should start thinking how to drop.
Lessons from Bob Collymore: Review your Spendings on Weddings and Burials
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
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July 05, 2019
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