Change across all landscapes and horizons?

Every so often out of necessity I often take the long road home. This Is the road from Lumumba to the city centre through Kyagwe road all the way down onto Kamplala rd up along the Sikh temple and onto old kampala where I have a choice of passing the historic old Kampala high school onto Namirembe road where connect to Balintuma rd. 

This often feels more like a circle because the simpler journey should lead to Balintuma through Wandegeya and Nakulabye. The latter is equally challenging and full of historical places like the great ivory tower famous for training and equipping myriads of leaders and influencers as well as the hospital (often not too far from ones sights).

Necessity for me means many things and even when we begin to prepare for changes in our transportation systems (as a railway line is revived and the silver smoke breathing snake sputters to life) one cannot help but shudder at the amazing pace at which change has appeared on everyones door step.

On a recent ride down the same road, I heard two people lament about the new realities in the city and the markets where in their view, rich and prominent men will become more separated from their lesser endowed foes or colleagues.

In some of my previous posts I have written about how few of us really can appreciate or embrace change. And it is all over this route. There is a proposition to expand the road and the shops which populated the road side are now gone. In their place are concrete slabs of previous memories like uninhabited shells devoid of hope turned up side down. Dwellers gone and long forgotten dreams and hopes upstaged and transferred. Relationships long vanished. 

If change continues to take on the shape that I think it will and if she extends her aggressive gaze on humanity in the manner I which she seems intent, I suspect that she will treat us all the same like lady justice. And if in her urge to do her bidding she turns to those graced with polished seats to purge us of our liturgy she may leave us no choice but embrace her.