Meme Nation: Maturity and Meme Sharing Contested.

I once used to post and share memes, but I stopped.

A good meme is lifeblood of chatting nowadays, I mean, it is a means of sustaining a convo for a while before getting into something serious. It is one of the modern conveniences. How about the good feeling when you remember that you made someone's day through the laughing face? I mean, the quid pro quo of sharing a meme is in receiving a plethora of these 😂😂😂😂. They are such a feast for the eyes!

But why did you stop? You may ask. This is the reason, amidst the laughs, the cheers, the Ikrs, the send-me-this-ones and all, came a sharp decry from a brother who had little idea about the joy of waking up to one hundred meme responses (singles can relate with ease).

"Meme sharers are not mature. They project an immature image that shows how unlucky, unserious, shortsighted and unplanned they are about life. They are useless to the society, not up to anything serious, you know, hawana kazi," So my brother went on and on with the lessening description.

What a contrary opinion!

Being a role model to my brother, I had to swallow my ego and endure the agony of turning my back from my newly found hobby, the laughter hobby. As autonomous as I am, a thought of being a let down to my brother goes a long way against my grain. Unimaginable! How could he not understand that life is not all that serious? After all, what do you do while waiting for a call from one of ten job applications you just dropped, rather than view all the meme updates, share them with brethren, then enjoy the responses? Double portion, ikr?

My brother is that guy who will not take you for an ego trip, he will tell you everything in black and white. He came to me like, those who share memes are losers, are you one of them? Am like, eeenh, no, it's just fun sharing fun right? After all meme sharing is caring! You can imagine the Unfaltering no I received.

So, here I am, torn in between the family and the friends, you see? Should I make my family members proud of me or go on to please my cronies?  Since the utopian Wahengas were smarter than our smartphones, they said blood is thicker than water and we agreed. Who am I to resist? That is how they helped my brother to slash my newly found hobby to the ground.

Am now left to be exhilarated by the viewing, laughing and laughing then end the process there. Responding makes me jealous of the sharer, jealous because they get to relish twice, so I stop there. (but some are so funny I cannot help laughing, oops)

Whether to share or not to share memes is a heated personal debate out here, I know. The opinion is divided. People fear being held with contempt, especially by the family members, now that everybody is on the interwebs; fathers, mothers, aunties, sisters and brothers (like mine). Remedy? Choose what works for you, what you can afford to pay for.

All things considered, the world is no longer a small village but a Meme Nation, thanks to social media. Next time you want to share that meme, posse and browse about your viewers. Your prospective boss could be stalking and you don't want to be jobless for the longest.

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