Work before you sleep. Build before you love. Because the world is not run by hearts.
Sit down, my Sons: Kasekende, Muguluma Joseph, Musangogwantamu Cliff Carton, Misagga Clive Benedicto.
The morning is coming, and roses don’t pick themselves.
Let me tell you the truth no love song will sing to you.
I have read 3 books about love, power, and romance, and they have impacted me mentally.
Not novels for entertainment. Manuals for life. And warnings.
The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
It showed me love torn between tradition and change.
How two people can love each other, but if their worlds, values, and power are not aligned, the river will drown them both.
Love without a common foundation is war in slow motion.
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
It showed me love with fire, passion, and zero planning.
Beautiful. Tragic.
Because when you chase the heart and ignore the kingdom, the families, the feud, the power will bury you.
Macbeth - Shakespeare
This one inspires, and it warns.
Macbeth had ambition but no wisdom. He had power but no peace.
Lady Macbeth pushed him for more, but they built their crown on blood and fear.
And what happened? The kingdom collapsed. The mind collapsed. The love collapsed.
“Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other.”
Sons, Macbeth teaches you: Power without character, and love without vision, will destroy the very throne you fought for.
Those three books taught me: how it’s done, how it’s destroyed, and how power can curse you.
LOVE WITHOUT POWER IS AN ILLUSION
The world will lie to you and say, “just follow your heart.”
But my Sons, the world is not run by hearts. It is run by leverage.
You can have the purest love in the valley.
But if you marry without power, planning, and value, you will wake up in a golden prison.
Walls of gold. Chains of bills. And no key.
Because value is conditional.
The day the wealth flips, the day the bags are empty, the day the name means nothing—that’s when you will see who was in love with you and who was in love with what you carried.
WORK HARDER BEFORE YOU SLEEP
She saw you because of the bags of wealth.
She will stay because of the man who keeps filling those bags.
That’s not cruel. That’s nature. That’s history.
Queen Sheba did not cross deserts for nothing.
She looked at King Solomon—his wisdom, his gold, his kingdom, his name—and she said, “this is power worth binding to.”
That’s the bond the Jews still have with Ethiopia to this day. Not just romance. Legacy.
So work.
Build the farm. Build the brand. Build the name.
Because if you don’t, someone else with power will. And she will walk with the strong village feelings to where the weight is.
But be like Solomon, not Macbeth. Build with wisdom, not with blood.
WISDOM, EMPATHY, AND EYES WIDE OPEN
I’m not telling you to be cold. I’m telling you to be wise and always pick my calls because I have hit the sealing and know it all.
Love is not only in the chest. It’s in the plans you make together at 0200 hours.
It’s in the partner who treasures you when the account is low, not just when the car is new.
It’s in empathy - she understands your mission.
It’s in understanding - you understand her heart, not just her smile.
Like in The River Between, don’t let tradition and ego pull you apart.
Like Romeo and Juliet, don’t let passion blind you to reality.
Like Macbeth, don’t let ambition make you betray your own house.
Find the woman who will love the farmer, not just the harvest.
Find the woman who will sit with you in the kraal and still dream of factories.
That is rare. That is treasure. Do not compromise yourself to get it, and do not compromise her when you have it.
THE BALANCED TRUTH
- Work without love - You become rich and lonely.
- Love without power - You become poor and trapped.
- Power without wisdom - You become Macbeth. Crowned, cursed, and alone.
- When you combine these - Work, Love, Wisdom - You build a dynasty.
Sons, the roses of love are beautiful in the morning.
But they only bloom where there was water, soil, and hands that worked in the night.
So before you sleep:
Plan. Build. Provide. Protect.
Then love — deeply, loyally, and with eyes open.
Because when power and love walk together with wisdom,
you don’t just get a marriage.
You get a kingdom that lasts.
The world will test you. The market will test you. Time will test you.
Make sure when it does, your house doesn’t fall.
Work hard.
Love wisely.
Lead with power that serves.
Signed,
The Oracle from Kifuuta Kyotera Buddu, who read the books, buried the illusions, learned from the crown of thorns, and wants you free, not caged in gold.
