Tag: random thoughts
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Failure and success
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Failure has given me some of the most defining experiences of my life. It made me pause in my tracks, question my direction, and challenge the beliefs I once held with certainty. In those moments of disappointment, I was forced to confront what I thought I…
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#8 Travel diary: Fascination around my hair
The stories of beauty, variations, pain, time, struggles, and adventures, traumas, angsts surrounding black hair have been around for ages. Now with technology and evolving standards of beauty, no one can possibly exhaust the complexity surrounding this topic. Many people have attempted to make easier the life of women and girls like of my skin…
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#5 Travel diary: The shouting black man
Their feet are swift, their bodies light, save for the old stiff-jointed grannies wheeling walkers. They walk like ants in many lines except they are not together. They are unaware of the other person and each person seems completely disconnected from the human environment around them. It is not in a mistrusting way; it is…
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Context
Everything we see, hear, our encounters, when put in a context under different circumstances, would change completely our view and stand. I believe in context but especially in reason. However, sometimes we don’t get enough time or enough room to share about context. Every statement has a two parts; one is variable. Yesterday, while speaking…
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Everyone has a story
Everyone has a story, Everyone has been through something (things) that changed them Everyone is hopefully evolving daily and even through moments And hopefully changing in all the ways that make us better and not bitter. So, don’t judge people by the chapter you walked in on
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No one can love you like you…
…cause no one knows you like you. No one knows the baby in you that needs soothing like you. No one has experienced your joy like you have, born your sorrow to its depth, seen life through your lenses, felt the longings of your heart, dreamed the dreams of your mind, lived the insecurities of…
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Joy, be my guest
Come rushing like a hurricane, Come sprinkling like a drizzle, Come calming like a gentle breeze, Come blossoming like a flower, Come soothing like a healer, Come healing like a kiss, Come warming like a blanket, embracing like a hug, Come speaking hope like the good preacher professes, Come touching these dark hollow places and…
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Love and Nurture
It’s often said that one shouldn’t speak about children and raising them unless they have had children of their own to raise. And yes, I absolutely believe that. I know nothing about raising one but I know a few things about being raised. Today I randomly came across a conversation between TD Jakes and Steve…
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Do You Cry Too?
I admit it: I’m a “crier.” I sometimes cry during the national anthem; I’ve sometimes cried at an airshow when I feel the power and agility and precision of fighter jets. I cry during movies. Just last night I was watching a series of the history of Southeastern Conference Football, and I found myself […]…
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#3 Travel diary: History and preservation.
There is life in historical sites, buildings, monuments, antics, verbal stories, …lands and fields even. In Germany the gravity around these things is palpable. Europeans as a whole generally seem to be very rooted in cultural preservation, and holding strong attachments to their history. Germany is not short on technology or new great ideas on…
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I am not sure I want to be a white gown bride.
Growing up I did not dream of my wedding day like most girls. I didn’t dream of the big white gown and long veil. I was more obsessed with my education and growing into a somebody, a respectable adult who is in any form and magnitude adding value to my society. I’m still working on…
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Preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey says, “There is no such thing as luck. It’s just a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” I agree with the first part to a certain extent but I strongly believe in the second part of this quote. Here is my encouragement to myself today and to everyone out there who is working towards…
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Why don’t we hold men to the same moral standards as women ?
For so long people who claim to transform the world and get rid of toxic masculinity and the patriarchy that formulates rules to keep a firm grip on women. One thing though is subtly handled and that is the morality standards by which women are held and yet men are supposed to live a life…