As I hear you brushing your teeth from a mile away, I can’t help wondering, are you trying to kill yourself?
I hear the screaming and gurgling, it sounds just like murder, do you even like yourself?
Sọrọ sókè is a Yoruba phrase that serves as a prompting to speak louder, speak up, or speak more assertively.
This phrase has been co-opted both online and offline as a response by Nigerian youths engaged in the #EndSARS protest.
As much as we wish we can, we actually cannot prepare the road for the child. This doesn’t mean we should abandon each child on their journey through life.
The power of the nose cannot be over quantified, but have you heard a Yoruba person say “Imu nika, koje ka gbo orun asebi”?
Mutually Assured Destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
After spending a good deal of time thinking on it, I had to send her a message asking who does that?
As in who are they? what did they do? And should they be prepping for a fight?
As much as our ultimate reward is in heaven, what if your entry into heaven depends on everyone you ever come in contact with voting for or against you getting into heaven? And people had to vote honestly, based on their memories of you.
You are not a P.L.C. No shareholder or board of directors should be sitting on your case and none is coming up with a solution for you. They don’t know the intricacies of your daily life, how do you expect them to know what is right or wrong for you?
Are friends not meant to lift each other up, show one another the way, and be sources of respite, refreshment, and resources for one another?
Sunk cost fallacy is a phenomenon where somebody justifies an increased investment of money or other resources based on the cumulative prior investment (the sunk costs), despite new evidence suggesting that the cost of continuing now outweighs the expected benefit.
The problem with experience though? It often held us back. We remember things from our past, we see patterns playing out before us, and we have to react.
You saw her, she was drop-dead gorgeous, her voice was like music to your ears, you were satisfied.
You walked up to her, you gave her your fire lines, you were really poetic, alas, she was not satisfied.
Do not allow yourself to get trapped in an echo chamber of your own creation, else you’ll be unaware of when the world moves on and leave you behind.
You will no longer be a victim of someone else’s gaslighting. It is time you’ll put on your flame, raise your lamp high, and shine bright like the star you are meant to be.
There is a saying that accompanies a story I read as a kid. “While Rome burned, Nero fiddled”. Is that the best way to describe Nigeria and her leaders?
What if I didn’t mask my feeling?
What if you were not told that women can’t do the asking?
What if I wasn’t too scared to damage a good thing?
What if…?
Maybe in another lifetime, we can be more than almost.
Stock Taking means to go through ones wares, finding out what you have surplus of, enough of and what is lacking.
Feeling remorseful or regret is not a sign of weakness. It is simply being human. Know that others have been where you are and still gone on to do better.
The most surprising part of people with a Messiah Complex is the fact that often, they actually played the most irrelevant, inconsequential and fleeting role in your come up.
Cast your vote for people you genuinely believe in. Fortune does favors the bold. Fortune also favors the wise voters.
Mr Ballot Box Snatcher, what’s up?
You have been paid to go on another snatching spree, you have been instructed on which polling station to disturb, you have picked your accomplices, please tell me, is it worth it?
May we not be used to nonsense. May we not trade our expectations for crumbs. May our expectation not be cut short.
How much is a dream worth? How much should a future be sold for? Even Martin Luther King and his dream, how much was it worth?
For the rest of us, foresight of what the future holds for us, our children and generations to come is why we must come out of our comfort zones, to carry out our civic responsibility by electing leaders we believe in.
Yes, the poor, destitute and illiterate are selling their votes for Naira and Kobo, but you young, strong, bright, talented and educated Nigerian, how much are you selling your future for?
Fruits never fall far from their parent trees. Look. Ask questions. All of their neighbors can’t be uniformly evil while they just happened to be the only saint on the street.
Has the thoughts that crosses your mind ever crossed your mind?
Have you ever think about what you do think about?
Do you know the power of your thoughts?
Do not allow your anger to cause irreparable damage to relationships that could be beneficial to you in the future. Don’t let a reputation of being a “Diva” or “Tantrum Tom” become a stumbling block to your progress.
Why do men cheat?
Is it ever excusable or permissible?
Can a man ever be faithful to his lady?
Is love really cursed by monogamy?
Would polygamy be the fix and make a man not cheat anymore?
As much as 2019 is your year of Abundance, Greatness, Increase and lots more, personally, 2019 should be your year of Accountability too.