Tag: love
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Ẹru ẹlẹru
Envy and jealousy are very funny things. They make you hate good things. Naturally, when you see something good — for example, someone gets married or buys a house — what should be your response? Shouldn’t it be celebration? Even if it is clapping in glee or laughing out loud. Something in you should respond…
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Roses are red…
…heartbreaks are blue The first Valentine’s Day gift I received was in SS 2, from a sweet gal who sat in front of me. It was an impromptu thing. “I think we should be each other’s Val.” I received a necklace that I wore till it faded. It was my first and only valentine’s day…
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Exposure
Culture Social Shock Few years back, I decided to take my writing seriously. By seriously, I mean I started thinking about publishing. There’s this friend of mine whose writing style I admire. I went to meet her, asking that she mentor me in this writing thing. One of the first thing she said was that…
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Midnight Ramblings
Network went off as usual. Just at it’s bedtime. I had the perfect excuse to finish reading this novel by the author that enjoys tying her readers into a knot. My roommate suffered, because I keep exclaiming out loud, insulting the characters and literally stopping whatever she was doing so that I could explain the…
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Take one; take two
Remember the blog post I titled Jailbreak? There I talked about how forgiveness frees you and how bitterness only imprison you. Now here’s the thing. When someone hurts you and you, you know, take the bold step to forgive the person, you think you are free until you see the person again and everything within…
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The Pot At The End of The Rainbow
The most important being on earth apart from God is you. The first time I heard that, I was scandalized. What the hell do you mean by that? I am that important? Years ago, God told me that after his opinion, what matters next in line is mine. Now, you might be thinking that I…
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Fiction is fiction and life… well, life is not
Recently I said to my friend, “omo, we authors, we dey lieeeee.” (Just in case you didn’t know, I am an author. I write stories and poems.) When I said that, the Holy Spirit said “the whole idea of fiction is a make-believe. Creating what is not existent in the real world — what you…
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Discovering love
Growing up feeling unloved can leave a deeply seated mark on one’s soul. Like you have heard me write, my mom is a great lover of her children, and she taught us to love one another the same. But it was not exactly the same with my father. I cannot claim that he does not…
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Lambano?
Have you ever wondered why, after you pray to God to give you something, He places it in the hands of someone around you instead of directly into your hands? Well, I have wondered. I didn’t stop at wondering, sef. I went forward to ask God. He did say we should bring forth our strong…
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