The only personalities that can dictate how your story ends are you and God. Yes, I know it sounds like something out of the now ubiquitous inspirational speakers but I kid you not.I want you to take a good look at the attached pictures of flowers. It’s a sight that I see whenever I look out of a couple of…
The thing about life is that some people will never love you, irrespective of what you do. They will always look at you through bias-tinted glasses and you will always come up short. This is not necessarily because of any shortcomings on your part but as a result of the prism of bias from which they view you.Never allow them…
For a long time I have always believed in the virtue of hard work, and I still do. However, I have come to realize that hard work is often, not enough.The thing is hard work will get you through the door but it won’t get you a seat at the table. You see, it’s not just enough to get through…
An old friend of mine, from secondary recently came visiting and we took some pictures and posted it on the class WhatsApp forum. One of my classmates whom I haven’t seen since I left school, responded by asking if the picture was photo shopped because she couldn’t see any pimples (acne) on my face.The thing is I had quite a…
The year 2020 has come and gone. We are now in year 2021. This seems rather obvious since the second week of the New Year is almost over but it really isn’t. You see 2020 was such an ‘eventful’ year that a lot of people are still in 2020. Yes, I know that we are not time travellers who can…
Yes. Our sons have gone to hell and dragged our daughters along with them.I would like to first of all state that this article is not intended to suggest that there are no good men out there or that our young women are all perfect, rather this is a somewhat ‘outspoken’ clarion call to everyone and to mothers in particular,…
A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSS – PART ONEThis is a rather famous English saying – a rolling stone gathers no moss.Let’s start by asking, what is moss? This is not a biology class, so my description of moss will be very basic. Moss is that green and soft, carpet-like ‘grass’ that you find growing around some stones or some…
First of all, I would like to state that this is not a political post but a call to our collective humanity. I am stating this as I would not want my message to get lost in the politics of the moment. My condolences go to the families of everyone who lost their lives during and after the protests.It is…
WEDNESDAY WISDOM NUGGETSTITLE: AWAY FROM THE MADDENING CROWD.It is sometimes great to walk away, far away, from the crowd, in order to get a good perspective of life. Sometimes, when we refuse to walk away from the crowd, God orchestrates circumstances such that the crowd moves away from us.It can be fun to be part of the excitement, the energy…
Long ago, before I was even a decade old, I had an uncle living with my family, who had a friend that often came by. My uncle’s friend’s popular refrain was, ‘man no die, man no rotten’. I didn’t know what he meant but in my childlike mind, I labelled him Mr. Man-no-die, man-no-rotten. At this point in time, I…