THE EMPTY POCKET”
BrBrian woke up one Saturday morning feeling unusually confident. He looked at himself in the mirror, adjusted his shirt, and smiled.
“Today,” he told himself, “I am going to enjoy life.”
He picked up his phone, unlocked it with flair, and opened his banking app.
Balance: KSh 47.50.
Brian stared at the screen for almost a minute, waiting for another digit to appear. None did. He blinked, adjusted his shirt again, and smiled anyway.
“Money is not everything,” he said with absolute conviction.
He walked outside like a businessman heading to a high-stakes meeting. Down the road, he ran into his friend Kevin.
“Brian! Where are you going looking so smart?”
“I have important...