There is a lot going for us in Uganda today, needles to mention the over and above beautiful struggle that is called life.
Take the Author’s Forum for instance that happens at the National Theatre every first Wednesday of the month.

I had never heard of it before and when I ambled into the main lobby at the National Theatre one Wednesday afternoon, well there it was.
I was greeted by a pretty usher who asked me if I was here for the Author’s Forum well I couldn’t say no that would have been rude of me.
So I said yes and was let in without pay a dime all because I had asked kindly.
My first impressions of the event and its organisers were positive and the evening would only get better. Inside the main auditorium was a crowd of about 100. All dressed in office wear.
I recognised one of them as the self-styled educationist and intellectual Fagil Mandy.
However I still didn’t know what to make of this gathering though I didn’t have to wait long.
The lights dimmed and then Pablo, a stand-up comic, took to the stage. After cracking a few jokes he invited Robert Bake, the brains behind the Author’s Forum, to address the gathering.
Mr Bake insisted on reading his remarks from a prepared script which took nothing away from his sentiments but contrasted sharply with Pablo’s spontaneous presentation.
Mr Bake, an author himself of ‘Tapping God’s Blessings’, begun the Author’s Forum as a way of inspiring would be authors in Uganda to write more.
The Forum was founded in September 2009.
 The guest speaker on this occasion, Dr Ian Clarke, an Irish medical doctor and seasoned writer performed the first successful open heart surgery in Uganda, and regularly writes a weekly column in the Sunday Vision.
In a lively and absorbing speech, the good doctor revealed that the secret to his success was the fact that he never felt satisfied with his lot.
Now that struck me as a miserable existence until he explained that such a mentality allows him to work selflessly and tirelessly. And in so doing fulfil his aspiration of leading a purposeful life.
He went on to define success as achieving aspirations honestly.