Keep phone tapping off the love compound

Mar 13, 2009

All this talk about phone tapping and legalising the theft of other people’s secrets is alright with me. There is nothing I love more than people’s secrets, especially when I love them. No! That’s a lie; there are many things I really love more tha

All this talk about phone tapping and legalising the theft of other people’s secrets is alright with me. There is nothing I love more than people’s secrets, especially when I love them. No! That’s a lie; there are many things I really love more than that, but it was a figure of speech.

I have actually caught myself, several times, trespassing on the privacy of the people I love. Like Government, I don’t believe the people I oversee should have secrets.

I have often eavesdropped on Beloved’s KB but when I get annoyed by it, I find myself getting more annoyed because I can’t pin her down. She will ask how I got to know. And, officially, men are not supposed to love rumours unless, ofcourse, they are Amama Mbabazi.

Knowing what is hidden is good for all intents and purposes. Doesn’t the Bible say ‘know the truth and the truth will save you’? But when this truth turns out hot and burning, you may not know how to handle it. You discover your partner is cheating but a few days after your violent departure, you discover something else; that you cannot live without Beloved. A few weeks down the road, your life is in turmoil and you are back knocking on their door, delivering forgiveness the way UPDF is pleading with Odhiambo to come for amnesty.

The creator was not stupid to keep certain portions of ourselves hidden from the rest, especially the people we sleep with. The Government’s moves should not excite you to stick ears into private areas of the people you call your own. Sometimes it is safer to take the official version of what you are told as the truth. Because, in love, nobody ensures fidelity or durability by force. So, of what benefit will it be to know that your best friend is making eyes to your best lover? Do your bit of loving genuinely and hope Beloved will get motivated to reciprocate.

Phone tapping will only make you a rumour monger and chaser of ghosts. It has never solved adultery nor kept affairs intact. It actually almost always wrecks them. Even in politics, it never saved regimes like Amin’s from falling, never saved empires like the Russian from crumbling and didn’t stop the Taliban from delivering death to the backyard of America. It only makes criminals think harder. They say when cats become clever, rats get cleverer.

I know something happens to transform lovers into detectives of each other. One fleeting chance and someone is rummaging through phones, notebooks, pockets and whatever it is that might be hiding Beloved’s unknown. Think of the harvests you would get if the same energies are devoted to the search for money!

I know eavesdropping can be fun but keep it off your love life. I grew up with sharp ears, sucking in older peoples’ talk especially about sex and by the time I got my chance, I was playing like Umwony. I learnt vital truths too, which I can share with you on phone.

But don’t call me, someone may be tapping the phone.

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