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HOW DO I GET SO MUCH TO WRITE

Short answer: thinking and talking to myself... A LOT! Part 1: Thinking   I am (or rather I try to be) very active in my thoughts. I try not to be an outsider or a passer-by to my thinking. My mind is always doing the darnedest things, and I come along FULLY for the ride 😂 I think I'm HILARIOUS. After spending some time with me, most people tend to agree (you don't have to agree, not everyone has good taste 😅  JK... or am I  😏 ). I know I know, humor is subjective and whateva Side Storytime with moi I remember my first day at my office in London when our colleagues took us out for lunch. We were just talking about ourselves and backgrounds etc., so they asked me about Nigeria. I said something along the lines of the government sucks, but the people are HILARIOUS!!! And made several other sentences emphasizing this. One of my colleagues, who's Ghanaian, later said he didn't really believe me when I said Nigerians are hilarious till one day after a meeting we were gist

NOTHING HAS CHANGED SHE IS THE SAME

In the chorus of the first song on Jon Bellion's album, The Human Condition (that I LOVE), he sings the line "nothing has changed (s)he is the same". I've been thinking about that a lot recently. Let's take a trip down memory, shall we? When I was younger, I used to prefer buying food at school instead of taking homemade food to school. Something about that jollof rice that the woman in junior secondary school canteen made was so magical.  I was thinking about the jollof rice the other night, and I could vividly remember (and see) the woman opening the cooler, removing the nylon that now had water dripping because of the steam from the HOT jollof rice hitting the nylon and her serving the jollof rice and removing any stray bay leaves along the way. Then the sizzling hot stew with beef, SOFT, scrumptious kpomo 😋  and boiled egg and her soft moi moi! Oh, what a glorious moi moi it was  🤤 🤤 🤤  I just ate before typing this, but I'm salivating at the thought o

CHAPTER 22

Every year for the last 3 years (except last year 😅), I have written (and posted) a blog on my birthday talking about... whatever. For some reason, last year, on November 8th, I didn't have anything written. Maybe because I was too lazy or I forgot, or maybe the time wasn't quite right 🤔 and when I finally got around to it, one month later, I scribbled a few thoughts together but never edited or posted it. So maybe call this Chapter 21 & 22? Anyways, this article will be a combination of some of the thoughts I scribbled down in December 2020 and thoughts I have today. Good luck trying to figure out which is which 😂 Here goes I was looking through my blog posts for when I turned 19 & 20 to see what opinions I changed and what I still believe to be true. If you want to check them out, you can find them here:  19  and  20 . To be honest, I still agree with all that was written in those posts. I still think birthdays are hella stressful, and I think if we're going to

LIFE IS BUT A DREAM

My favourite season of Teen Wolf is easily season 3. Evil Stiles is undeniably the best villain of the show. If you watched Teen Wolf up to that point, you'd know that 1 thing Stiles faces is nightmares. He explained at one point that one of the ways to know you are dreaming is, in your dream, you can't count your fingers. Inception explores this concept too. They explore how difficult it is to see specifics in your dream. That's what living your dream is like. Dreams give you a bird's eye view, an overview of what your ideal life would look like. Your "dream house", "dream car", "dream vacation", "dream job" etc do not incorporate the second by second play of what it would be like to live the dream.  Fortunately (or unfortunately), we live in specifics. The problem with living our dreams is that the overview is the same, but because we never knew the specifics, they catch us off guard. And the problem with specifics is that they