Not all kids get along with their parents. Some have strained relationships that last for years. One of these is veteran disc jockey, Dj Pinye, who had a troubled relationship with his mother.
In a recent interview with a local entertainment journal, Dj Pinye talked about how he had a difficult childhood that at one point caused him to burn down their family home in Kibra.
“I burned our home, my childhood home. I was a crazy kid. I (finally) told my mum when she was in her hospital bed (that I was the one who burned it). We used to live in Kibra,”
he said.
Apart from being in bad terms with his mother, he also did not show attention to his physically disabled younger brother. He only began to change after his mother who was his sole caregiver passed away.
“I wasn’t close to her. I never used to talk to her. I hated her from when I was a teenager. I was mean and rude. Fortunately, before she died we made up and became close. I started focusing on her, not my brother. I was like that is her work, work she has been doing all her life. I didn’t think it was a big deal. Then she passed on.”
Dj Pinye said that after his mother died, his brother who had cerebral palsy also died. And then recently, his older brother died.
Now the DJ Pinye is left behind with a younger brother and a younger sister.
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Here’s what he told the journal:
“See, my mum used to take care of this boy. I was never interested in what she was doing. He had cerebral palsy. Then, my mum passes on and I come here and start asking what mummy was doing. We could not take care of him.
It was next to impossible. We had to hire nurses. The wake-up call was thinking that mum used to take care of him for 30 years without a scratch, and now we are here messing him up.
I came to realise that my mum never had any life. She spend all her time taking care of (him). No friends, no nothing.
When you think of such things, they make you feel so sad. If I knew, I would have done more to help.
This was a wake up call and after that, I decided never to take anything for granted, especially with people who are disabled.”