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Over the last few  years the country has experienced major news on love triangle among campus students gone sour leading to gruesome murders. In my article today i want to focus on some of the stories which made headlights on our screens over the last few years. In the 1990s, most media including international media houses such as The New York Times reported that students mostly blamed the government for the deaths and murder of their colleagues. That was then. Fast forward 20 years later and while the players remain the same, the script has changed. Fingers are no longer pointed at police and government agents for the horror tales that haunt campuses. In a bizarre twist, students are now turning on each other and even killing each other in cold blood for what some may term non issues. According to Prof Lukoye Atwoli, a consultant psychiatrist and lecturer at Moi University’s School of Medicine, even though university life today is significantly easier than it was 20 years ago, the...

When two people fall in love ,they experience themselves and each other as separate individuals with distinct identitites ,and their own ideas ,interests and friends . When a majority of us  falls in love or get in a relationship we tend to lose our individualism as most of our time we need to be committed to someone with our time,money and efforts. And aa Lisa Firestone,  a physchologist would describe a scenario,you start out feeling like the very best version of yourself that you ever been and before you know it, you are digging around in the relationship looking for some reminders of that person you were when you fell in love. So how can you be in a relationship and not lose yourself ;how can you be a  part of a "we" without losing ,"me". What makes a relationship tricky is that it provides  chance for two people to experience completely different moments.On the other hand ,two individuals can be provided with support by each other's appreciation and love fo...