In life, there is nothing we can do today to change what already happened.
However, there is a lot that we can do now to change and make our future better.
This is especially if we decide to learn from our past.
This applies to us individually, as families and as a nation. Kenya has a past full of good and bad memories, depending on the time and events in question.
It is very sad when some people try to use the 2007 post-election violence to make political statements and arguments.
Led by the political class, some of us have joined them in either supporting or reviving the not-so-good past.
As a supporter of a certain candidate, you can put on a very sober argument without mentioning the alleged involvement or participation of another person in what is considered the darkest moment in Kenya's history.
There is no harm in campaigning or marketing your preferred candidate. However, don't use PEV as your selling point.
Some families have healed, forgotten, and even moved on. Such families are not doing so because they like it. It's because they have decided to and seen it as the best option.
Others are trying to forget and move on. Let us give them that space and time.
The only way we can all help those who were directly and indirectly affected is by working to ensure nothing similar happens again.
We cannot achieve this if we keep reminding them of the pain and loss they experienced.
Let us be considerate, compassionate, loving, and caring.
Let us prove that we are better than we were some 14 years ago.
The writer is a Communication and Public Relations practitioner
Edited by Kiilu Damaris
