My mum had a special way of calling each of her children, Marto as everyone knows him she called ‘Martin'(in her English accent) Marto was a nicknamed he picked from Nairobi and it stuck. I have the honour to follow Marto, we are 4 years apart but that didn’t stop me from following him around like any little sibling would.
Marto was a daredevil as a child, my best times was when he would let me hang with him(the other times I was the annoying little sister tying on him😂😂) Marto is a very goal oriented person, be it fun times or work related things. Now as the sibling who follows him, I can only aspire to have even a tenth of this. Marto taught me how to swim. I didn’t learn the conventional way that I see kids now days take months to learn wapi I had one holiday. The first week I was taught the basics,how to float, flap the legs, stretch from the wall and let go and float.Then second week breathing under water coupled with first week lessons.Third week was proper swimming man, I enjoyed. All this in shallow end, the next challenge was how to do this in deep end. I could swim in deep end but by the wall😂😂😂🤦 This wasn’t flying for my brothers, they came up with a plan to get the fear of deep end out of me(as I mentioned earlier goal oriented) Marto throw me into deep end and shouted “FLOAT!” “FLOAT!” Let me just tell u I drank water🤣🤣 n e way Ruta was already in the water. I think they had planned incase she doesn’t surface in these minutes we go get her. Guys I flapped my bu hands and feet paka I resurfaced, getting to the top the first face I saw was Marto’! He was waiting for me, ofcourse I was coughing and trying to breathe as I stayed afloat but he was right there. He extended his hand and I grabbed on, he pulled me towards the wall and said, “welcome to deep end” I didn’t know whether to be mad or happy but that’s how I conquered my fear of deep end.🤗
Marto’ life is deep end swimming, everything he has achieved is either before his time or he is the first to do it. I am in constant awe of how he does life. Thank you for challenging me to always swim further out, not letting me drown and being ever present.
I am blessed to you call you brother. ❤️ Happy birthday 🎊
