THE ARCHITECT OF MY OWN BECOMING
********************************************** Preface This book is not a record of events. It is a remembering. It begins before language, before certainty, before the world explains itself. In Mbabane, in the quiet light of a hospital morning, a child is born already sensing that reality is layered—that what is seen is only a fraction of what is real. From the first breath, there is an awareness that life is not merely lived, but interpreted, endured, and eventually shaped. Childhood, as told here, is not innocence but initiation. Love arrives entwined with expectation. Belonging is offered conditionally. Family, culture, faith, and tradition form the first architecture around the self—structures meant to protect, yet often demanding fragmentation in return. Silence becomes a teacher. Observation becomes survival. The soul learns early how to bend without breaking. As the years unfold, the story moves through rupture and reckoning. Adolescence and early adulthood mark a d...