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Until Then, We Chew

A garbage sandwich, I think, is what most of us become after life has had a few turns with us. A little disappointment layered between our forced smiles and there’s

A Life Well Lived

Yesterday, I was on TikTok and I came across this older woman. I think her name is Gigi. She looked her age, yes, but there was something about her I really fancied.

Clarity First: The Missing Step in Personal Growth

I was going about my morning routine when a thought crossed my mind and I couldn't wait to write it down on a jotter because it spoke a lot to me in just one word.

Stay Inspired, The World Needs You

Yesterday evening, I couldn’t write because life seemed to happen in a way that demanded all of me. My cousin texted me and said she wanted to end her life. At first,

Learning to Stay in Control, When Anger Takes Over

Early today, I stumbled upon a short movie clip and I watched how a single choice that would have been avoided, ruined a happy family. I watched how responding to

A Small Win and A Gentle Reminder

I woke up this morning to something I didn’t expect. Two different communities had mentioned me. I mean my name, right there, among the winners of their prompt contests.

Still, Continue!

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill There is something about this quote that is deeply humbling.

A Reflection of Soul

In the estate where I live, people are always in a hurry. Their mornings except mine, begin with car engines and hurried footsteps, the evenings end with tired returns.

The Perfect Crime

What Would Be the Perfect Crime? If one were to ask this question in the literal sense, I imagine the answers would wander toward shadows, toward schemes so carefully

All That Fear, For What?

I came across this writing challenge on Substack with the prompt: Write about a time when you were afraid that you would fail at something. How did you conquer your

The Burden of Tomorrow

It has often seemed to me that life, in all its curious arrangements, demands from us a kind of faith we scarcely understand, an expectation of things not yet seen,

When time stops who survives?

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From Fear to Freedom: How Student Life Is Finally Changing

Image source : Ai Generated Student life was not always easy for me. In start it was full of fear stress and confusion. Every day feel like pressure. Pressure of

You Are Not Expiring at 25

I was scrolling through X this week when I came across a post by a 22-year-old woman who was simply expressing her discomfort with men aged 30 and above approaching

On the Temper of Life

There are days when life tastes like lemon, almost too vivid on the tongue. Days that wake you abruptly, and it has shoved in your face a sour honesty, swearing

Let Earth's Pain Be Soothed

Today was another one of those days where I felt completely unmotivated to write, until I took a walk with my mom to her farm. There used to be a forest along the

A Lil’ Reality Check

There’s this book that has me completely wrapped around its fingers. I’ve been reading it slowly, and that’s not because I’m busy, but because I don’t want it to

In the Blink of a Morning

Two days ago, while passively watching the news on TV, something I rarely do, a live report came on that interrupted the ordinary rhythm of my day. Watching TV that

Living in sync with time

Time is one concept I've known to have a major say in the lives of humans, whether we desire it or not and not minding if it's passage causes us joy or pain. It's

The Mercies We Forget to Thank

On Wednesday, my niece, the eldest of four, came home buzzing with news. She had been given a creative writing assignment. Her teacher had asked each student to