One idea that has revolutionized my thinking is this: you are allowed to not want things.
You can look at everything society tells you that you need to have and just be like, “Nope. I will not be participating.”
Spending naira these days always feels like I’m spending Monopoly money. I think it’s because I no longer have a real point of reference.
Delivery is N10k? Me: Ok, let me send it
i hate when people are like “i haven’t been able to finish a book in a year” and you look at what they’re trying to read and it’s crime and punishment, sylvia plath poems, war and peace, and essays by oscar wilde…have you considered that maybe you just don’t like reading those?
whenever someone posts their bookshelf or book pile, I go through each book because the rule is… I have to had read at least one thing in the picture. And if I haven’t read anything, then this person whose books I’m inspecting has “won” and that’s why I need to read everything
i live in a constant state of anxiety. anxious that the grid will collapse on a rainy week and all my food + meat will go bad. anxious that my car will breakdown at night. anxious that i will slip and fall on the staircase. anxious that my phone will fall and crack.
anxious that my house will collapse. anxious that my lover(s) will disgrace me. anxious that my best friends will end our friendship. anxious that i will fail on work projects.
if i have a morning flight, i will be anxious that i will miss it, so I'll keep waking up every 20 minutes in panic and end up not sleeping the whole night.
it is an exhausting way of life. so much so that when i don't have anything to be anxious about, i become anxious that i missed something and it will be very bad.
i don't want to be put on anti-anxiety meds so i don't bring it up in medical sessions but can anyone relate to this? surely it cannot be only me?
“I’ve had crushes on people i knew I shouldn’t and would never act on it so I just quietly got over it like an adult” should be a very mild take but a lot of people aren’t as honest and also like feeling better than others.
No matter how bleak dating discourse on here gets, go outside and you’ll see all sorts of couples doing alright together. Even people who seemingly have no redeeming qualities have gotten themselves into relationships.
when y’all are reading a book, do you also suddenly put the book down for a while after a jaw-dropping scene and stare at nothing for a few seconds like there’s a secret camera filming your reaction then start talking about what you just read to absolutely no one
‘my bounty is as boundless
as the sea.
my love as deep; the more I give to thee,
the more I have, for both are infinite’
-Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare.
CALL OF MY LIFE IS OUT IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE FROM THE 15TH OF MAY.
Ghana’s government recently granted Kente Geographical Indication status meaning that only woven cloth from specific communities in Ghana can legally be referred to as Kente.
There’s none of this for aso oke or aso ofi or akwete or kukrubite.
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