Edna speaks

All the advice on anything in life that you've gotten till now is USELESS! Yes! you read that right... before you dismiss me and say "oh no for sure she does not know what she's saying", hear me out. Let me make a case for myself and then decide. By now, you've probably heard the buzz phrase "life is a journey" at least once. I think we unconsciously take the phrase too literally. We think of it like: if someone has gone through a certain road, then they should know the way, can show the way and if you follow their directions to the letter, you will get the same results. But that is hardly the case. Think of it like this: Say Edna travels from Lagos to Abuja, the roads were smooth, her private car was in perfect condition, in fact, she drove a Tesla, she drove at 120km/hr on average, alternated between autopilot and her driving herself so she did not need to make any stops. She got to her destination in 6 hours. The next day, her friend

Ever feel like your life is at a standstill? Like every single thing isn't just working out? Like everywhere you turn there's an astounding "no" waiting for you? Well you and the rest 7.7 billion of us are on this boat, at different times at least. For some people that are privileged to go to primary school, getting into secondary school may be the point where their life slows down. Maybe their family is unable to afford to put them through secondary school or maybe they aren't able to pass the exams needed to enter secondary school. For others (or even for the same people in the previous category), they scaled that hurdle, they got to secondary school and gracefully passed all the exams that took them to SS3 (or there were some setbacks on the way but eventually they got to SS3), then comes JAMB and WAEC. JAMB, of course, jams some, WAEC does it's own thing and if by some miracle, they eventually scale those hurdles, Post UME comes to hold so