COLOUR!

Friday, 2nd May, 2025.

I have had such a calm, Zensational day today – I love such days. The only not-so-fun part about it was (re)learning how to balance sheets and to prepare profit and loss statements. I did business studies in Form One in high school, and engineering economics in my undergrad, but truthfully speaking, economics is my least favourite discipline. I just don’t enjoy it – only understood the concepts enough to pass exam and give my father bragging rights. Heck, I even think I prefer calculus to economics, but that’s besides the point. ‘I had a Zensational day’ is the point.

These days, I have a proclivity for long walks, and I try to do 8 or 9 km twice every week, which is great cos my lifestyle is rather sedentary. I’m trying to change that, because the human body has only one set of bum bum (for sitting) and 360 freaking joints – our bodies were designed for movement. I should endeavor to walk a lot more, even.

To zhuzh things up, I created a theme for this month’s walks. The theme for May’s walks is ‘Colour.’ Here’s what I wrote on my Wanderlust wall:

The theme for May’s walks is ‘Colour’. Today, I’m taking my first- Yellow Walk. The challenge is to spot 20 yellow things. The board is my first. The bananas at the stall next to it? Second. Lezzz goooo!

The idea of a colour walk is to make walking more intentional and mindful – encouraging presence, engaging the senses, where one focuses on a single colour, noticing the things that share that colour. For my first walk in May, I chose yellow. I had a target of seeing at least 20 yellow items within the one hour, and at first, all I could see were bananas, haha. I saw more things eventually. Here’s the list:

Hakki Car Finance logo
Jerricans
Number plates
Motorcyclist’s helmet
Malfy Gin billboard
Glovo bag
City Shuttle (is that green or yellow?)
GoTV board
That man’s jacket
That school van
This Caucasian woman’s thighs
More bananas?
Lavington Security poster
Kenya Roads board
Sooshi Soo’s walls
OMG! More bananas
Yellow Lana tank
Velocity Spa board
Flower pots

I enjoyed my walk, very much, and even found a sugarcane juice stall on my way back to the house.

I refused to take the plastic straw offered to try to reduce plastic pollution. It’s even better to walk around with a bottle to avoid getting juices in these plastic cups that aren’t quite reusable, you know?
My fav is this kibandaski where they serve sugarcane jjuice in (clean) glass mugs -zero waste.

I’m hoping to do more colour walks in due course. It’s such a wonderful exercise for our minds which are almost always overstimulated – just noticing one colour on different items, noting them down, and rewarding yourself with sugarcane juice. You should try it out, alone, or with friends, right?

I hope you had a great day, and it’s okay if you didn’t. May tomorrow be better for you.

Thanks for being here. I’ll see you again, very soon, I promise.

Yours, colourfully,

Njoks.

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