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Well, some blood must be coated in victory. I mean, some people seem to have all the luck.<\/p>\n
I mean, many are times when sons and daughters of winners somehow become winners, at some stage of their lives, themselves.<\/p>\n
Now, maybe I need to clarify on what I mean by winners. If you are known, wherever you are, you are a winner. That is why we have community champions; people who lead the way in doing good things; something that serves more than themselves.<\/p>\n
One is also a winner if they have influenced change in someone. Ah! One can even be a winner for doing nothing! I mean, doing literally nothing. Take, for instance, a man who does not batter his wife is, in many ways than one, a winner.<\/p>\n
He has won by, without raising a finger, \u2018escaping\u2019 jail. An individual who has no vehicle can also be a winner. Come to think of it. Those who have no vehicle save on fuel, salary for a guard, money for engine oil, tyres and what have you. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! <\/em><\/p>\n Let me stop here, lest you accuse me of finding excuses for not having a car, let alone a wife. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! <\/em><\/p>\n After all, I am just talking about how I regard failure to \u2018land\u2019 a vehicle as victory.<\/p>\n The truth, even in this case, is that some people keep on \u2018winning\u2019. I am talking of those who have had no relationship with vehicles, in terms of owning one. They are winners because they are saving money.<\/p>\n And it happens that he whose father or mother was a \u2018winner\u2019, by virtue of having no car, will also be a \u2018winner\u2019 [saving fuel, salary, running away from tyre replacement and like costs] by having no vehicle because they, often, do not have the financial means to buy it.<\/p>\n But, then, there are winners who win because they have won something in real time.<\/p>\n Take, for instance, Samuel \u2018Mjura\u2019 Mkandawire. Before February 22 2015, he knew how to play some instruments, notably the guitar. He was a winner in this respect. More so because not many people know how to play the guitar. A musician whose name should remain under lock and key once taught me how to play the guitar. That exercise took us two months and I still do not know how to play the guitar.<\/p>\n Not with Samuel.<\/p>\n Using his knowledge of the guitar, Samuel went on to be the winner in the first season of Airtel Trace Music Star singing competition, carting home K14 million.<\/p>\n Some people have all the luck.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more? Samuel had plans to marry a woman who had been close to his heart for some time. The money came handy, thanks to the Airtel competition.<\/p>\n It was a typical case of killing two birds with one stone.<\/p>\n Now, it seems that Samuel will keep on winning. The artist, who gets a salary at a certain church in Lilongwe drives, thanks to his talent in music.<\/p>\n I mean, he has a car\u2014 which, by extension, means he can afford to pay a guard, buy engine oil, replace tyres, among other things.<\/p>\n \u201cThis car serves as a reminder that I won something,\u201d he says, talking of the prize money he got from the Airtel competition.<\/p>\n Well, February 2015 is such a long time. It must be satisfying to look at something that is a fruit of something that happened way back.<\/p>\n One rests assured that they laboured, and laboured not in vain. Satisfaction, a rare commodity, flows like water in Samuel\u2019s life, who is relieved that his dream came true.<\/p>\n Charge me anything, Samuel, for guitar lessons, and I will pay! Relief must be earning something for doing something one loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, some blood must be coated in victory. I mean, some people seem to have all the luck. I mean, many are times when sons and daughters of winners somehow become winners, at some stage of their lives, themselves. Now, maybe I need to clarify on what I mean by winners. If you are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63131,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63129\/revisions\/63131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}