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We have to learn to hold on to our personal convictions, especially our moral peculiarity and upbringing. I find it ridiculous the extent to which people are willing to go to get validation from people who don’t even count. Take media depiction of love, affection and relationships for example, if your ‘relationship’ does not involve…
Are you asking yourself the right question and telling yourself the truth? Very often in life, we don’t find the correct answer when we are faced with challenges because we don’t ask ourselves the #rightquestions. Or perhaps we don’t ask any questions at all. ”How often do you ask canon questions, or do you just…
‘We accept the love we think we deserve.’ the first time I came across this quote while reading ‘The Perks of Being A Wallflower,’ I had to pause and just let it sink in. We accept the love we think we deserve, just how powerful is this sentence. How many times have we pushed away…
Have you ever felt like if you step into a room full of people you will fall flat on your face by mysteriously tripping on your own flat shoes and the whole room will laugh at you? That’s what social anxiety feels like. It feels like you will fall every time you take a step…
The writer and I are two souls sharing a single body, and I can safely say it is the most confusing relationship I have ever been in my entire life; the same thing that gives me life seems to have a way of taking a little from everything it has given me. As writers, we…
No one, I mean absolutely no one has everything figured out even when they appear as they do. Life is a series of ups and downs, and we all have moments that we reach rock bottom, and that is fine, so long we try to pick up ourselves after that. There is a pressure on…
We treat suffering as if it is a rite of passage, as if it must be something you must have experienced at least once in other to succeed, or in order to last long in a relationship or a marriage or get a good education. We carry suffering and we place it on a pedestal.…
Have you ever felt the need to settle down for any relationship when you know you are not ready? Well, don’t. The world has never ended because of one’s wish or desire to be alone. Sometimes, you are not ready, and you might not even be aware of it, and that’s why preparing yourself is…
Everything I write here is based on my experience. I am one of those people who has always had a plan. I had my life figured out, right from when I was in secondary school. I knew the profession I would choose, when I would have my first child, had possible names for them, when…
Do you know that one of the most highly rated skills in the eyes of employers is a positive attitude? If you think about it, this isn’t surprising at all considering how a positive attitude makes everything, including working easier. On a personal level, having a positive attitude makes you more creative and helps you…
There’s no doubt that the Internet has changed so many aspects of our lives, yet by far the most implicating for young professionals and graduates is the fact that the variables for a successful career life are no longer what they use to be. The older generation will tell you to go to college, work…
Everyone desires success. But as they say, success is not achieved on a platter of gold. If you want success, you have to work for it. Actions and inactions simply differentiate a successful person from a “person of failure”. What do successful people do differently that make them successful? Put differently, what do successful people…
Children start to form their beliefs about the world and how they fit into it at the age at which they’re enrolled into primary school. This stage of schooling then becomes especially critical to their development. At the age range of 3 to 10, children are like sponges – absorbing everything happening in their environment in…
The reality of life is such that we’re never out of problems to solve. Life itself is nothing but a continuous succession of problems or challenges that make us better versions of ourselves, and so the need to improve our problem-solving skill. Looking at this fact, we can infer that improving our problem-solving skills is…
When we were little, all the adults in our lives would tell us one thing over and over again; “you’re the leaders of tomorrow”. We would hear it from our parents, from our teachers, from the politician talking on TV, we’ll sing it to ourselves and encourage each other with the notion. We find a…
International Women’s Day is celebrated March 8 every in honour of women. It’s a day set aside to provoke progressive discussions on the status and role of women in the society. The 2017 theme for International Women’s Day focuses on “Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030”. As we celebrate women…
Tolerance, according to merriam-webster.com, is “willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own”. In a world filled with peoples of different religious doctrines, political ideologies, economic affiliations, sexual orientations, and so on, the need for tolerance cannot be exaggerated. To make the world a better place, peace is needed. To…
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen – Jim Lovell Every student desires success; no one wants to fail. However, not everybody who wants to be successful is…
Having just failed at something, it’s important that you don’t get down on yourself by dwelling mindlessly at the guilt or disappointment you are now feeling as a result of this outcome. The best way to take your mind off the failure is to immediately take action. First of all you must commit yourself to…
It’s always the different parts that make up the whole. This is what I see, looking very closely at this ecosystem we call our universe – its operational formulae, the relationship that exists between man and man, human and material, abstract and concrete, illusion and reality, construction and destruction. We depend on one another, yet…
United Nations General Assembly added a chapter in its history of development on December 19, 2011, as it declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child. The objective of this move is “to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world.” The theme for this year’s International Day…
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