Believe. In yourself

In this post, I talk about defining personal ambitions

Olamide Sowole

During the pandemic last year Olamide and I had started chatting. He would write stories on his WhatsApp status and I would read them and comment. Olamide writes very brilliantly and beautifully, he's an artist and you can tell that from the very first line of any of his writings. I imagine Olamide writes mostly …

I want my own person. It's been almost a year since I broke up with George and I'm yet to find my own person. It's been lonely. In that time I've dated an mistake and started a beautiful situationship, but a situationship just doesn't replicate your own person. I know I'm not special, I'm not …

Detailing joy

A colleague was interviewed recently by Zikoko, and one of the things he said that caught my attention was that " he does not seek joy. He instead entertains every emotion he feels per time". Interesting philosophy, but one that simply doesn't work for me. When you live a life of melancholia, you actively seek …

I fought with my mother

Background story: I have a very soft spot for my mother, we are alike in so many ways. Stubborn, kind, and with so much resilience. Once a mentor asked me to grow resilience and I inadvertently translated that to mean I wasn't resilient because I am quite fragile, but I'm beginning to realise that as …

What I want in 2021

I won't repeat it that 2020 has been a long year 😄🌚. I'll instead look forward to the future. The years are a continuous one and there's nothing really that separates one from the other, but we mark the dates and say "IT'S A NEW YEAR" and so it's a new year. A time to …

Cheers to the goddess

Today is November 28, 2020 and the 19th day of NYSC batch B stream 1a camp. While I want to write about how camp has been stressful and interesting (I'll do that in another post), what I'll do instead is write about this long ass year; I'll try not to rant. January: First day of …

In the here and now

Months ago when I told Chiamaka that maybe I should think of monetising my blog, she asked me one question; Why did I start a blog? The answer was simple enough and came easily to me, it is what you see in my bio, I started this blog to journal online. 2020 has been a …

Stories are our way of affirming ourselves on this earth

I love human stories, I think it's important to start with that. In the big wide universe we are but a tiny speck, so it's really intriguing the sort of ranges we experience. I remember sometime when I was a child in a car with my parents (perhaps just my dad) and some members of …

An ode to the ex

On this blog I had previously written about my ex boyfriend and how he was the best thing since fried chicken, ice cream and kitkats. We however broke up almost 3 months ago, this is life and oftentimes good things come to an end. My philosophy always is to hold on to the memories, so …