Tag: zerotohero
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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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#6 Travel diary: Heaven in the South
I often times marvel at the works of God’s hands but in the case of the south of Bavaria, I am mesmerized. When God expresses Himself in the beauty of creation, you can’t help but adore. On this sunny summer day, I gazed at the sea of green fields and stretched my view beyond them…
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Take a pause
Life can move so fast; sometimes at my busiest, I don’t remember on Friday what happened on Monday. There have been too many microevents. It’s better to take a pause. Stop and look around before you miss life as it is unfolding. The world as it is today seems to have different settings in this…
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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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My little brother is my inspiration in this season….
…….and quite frankly, he is putting an indelible mark on me. This boy is 12. He has such a strong build for this age and thinks like he’s walked on this earth surface before. Some people get this while others don’t, as they voice observations that come off as completely indifferent to a child’s emotions.…
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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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To dream
“Sometimes the ultimate dream is to be able to dream at all.” If there is anything a child should be given in their childhood and possibly to every adult daily on their lofe’s journey, it should be the space and the freedom to dream and the tools to act on their dream.
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Love yourself with tenderness.
When you love yourself, be deliberate and tender. You are uniquely you and no one can be a better you. You are God’s gift to the world; His masterpiece. When you look at yourself, say those same sweet things to you that you’d say to the person you love. Be unconditional while at it. Invest…
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#9 Travel diary: bicycles everywhere.
When I was a young girl, my brother taught me how to ride a bicycle. It was a very freeing activity. When I rode down that rocky road past farms and past slowly trekking people, I felt like one of those people in the exclusive league which my brother was born into, the free males.…
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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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#2 Travel diary : Being intentional.
I am just learning now that I actually love walking. I just want the right environment and atmosphere when I do it. I have found places that my heart is forever glued to and I would spend eternity wandering there if I could. The thing I love most about them is that these people have…
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#1 Travel diary…
Travel therapy is so real. And now I know that’s mine. In my language we have a saying that when a child doesn’t move, they say their mother is the best cook. Of course an innate feeling of undying loyalty to a good mother would call us to cling to the belief that out mother…
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Holding the relatable story
It’s quite easy Everytime someone listens to another person tell their story, their experience to immediately think: “I know what you’re talking about. I’ve been through that. I have a relatable experience. “ The thing is though, that you haven’t listened to their story and much as it may have similarity(ies) to yours, this is…
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If you have one side of the story, you might be hurting someone on the other side of that story.
The other day I watched a video of someone trashing their partner and saying how this person was a terrible person, a bad mother, a bad wife, he was crying and shedding serious tears. This is a calm person unlike his partner in question who is a vibrant personality, sometimes controversial in her sense of…
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#7 Travel diary: Garmich partnachklamm and hiking
Remember the place where Barack Obama sat with Angela Merkel for a gorgeous picture overlooking the best scenery on the planet ? Yes. So, I was in this place today. Obama and all those G7 leaders have nothing on me. The difference between me and Barack Obama is I wasn’t driven to a secluded hotel…
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……, BUT …
Many times comes right after saying something good. After bestowing confidence on yourself or on someone else with compliments and love or with strength, light and flowers and all that is brilliant. Then comes the BUT. Everytime someone utters the three letters, in the mind of the recepient it’s like everything else is erased. Whatever…