A little girl in Boston went home one day and asked her Nigerian mother if she could change her name to Zoe.
Nobody at school could say Uzoamaka.
Her mother was cooking. She didn't even turn around.
"If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Michelangelo, and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka."
That girl kept her name.
Then she went to Hollywood and won three Emmy Awards.
And now the whole world knows exactly how to say Uzoamaka Aduba.
Your name is not a burden. It's a prophecy.
There’s a certain pastor who was called to pray for and liberate a certain family from a dangerous charm. In his efforts something bit him and he shouted “Nasumwa!” (I’ve been bitten!). He was taken to the hospital, but his family chose something unique…a traditional ritual healer. They thought it was a spiritual problem. So this pastor was taken to this healer and this healer managed to do his rituals and whatnot. Now, in the same place the pastor was bitten, the healer managed to find the charm. It was a puff adder. I’m left to wonder, wasn’t that pastor bitten by that very dangerous snake?!
Why do most people desperately want to live long or longer? What's the advantage in the larger pic? Is it that you get to eat more of the food you like, have a few more laughs, orgasms, see this world more, shed more tears, buy more stuff? In the end, why not die at 30??