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[Compassion International @compassion]

Jesus died for every child … and for the hope, joy and life they bring.

At Compassion centers, kids are growing, learning and laughing — reminders of the love Easter celebrates. 🐣 ✝️ #Easter

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Kenya has now officially banned phones without USB Type-C charging ports, effective from March 24, 2026.

The move has created tension and panic in the market overnight, with no transition period, no warning, leaving importers and sellers scrambling

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

You're a man.

Neverrrrrrrrr share pictures of:

1. Your kids.

2. Where you live.

3. Where you are traveling until you are back.

Protect your children. You never know who hates them just because they’re yours.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.”  

— Osamu Dazai

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Discipline feels boring until you witness what it creates.”

[Eric @amerix]

When you intentionally stand out, you become a target for hostility.

People silently dislike you not because you are arrogant but because you have refused to be submissive to their expectations.

They want you to:

• Stay humble but not too confident

• Be ambitious but not too successful

• Speak your mind, but not too boldly

• Blend in but don't shine too brightly

However, when you break these expectations, people become uneasy with you, they become hostile because you have opened their deep-rooted wounds.

Your authenticity irritates the person who spends his life pretending.

People don't hate who you are, they hate what they assume you represent in their heads.

They might decide that you are selfish, when you are just independent,

Or, you are manipulative when you are just observant,

Or, you are arrogant when you are just focused.

When people cannot read you, they project their fears onto you.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶.

[Malvin @ManOfFocus_]

BREAKING NEWS: Neverrrrrrrr... Neverrrrrrrr... Neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr look desperate in life. Remain calm during hard times. Understand it's just your time to suffer like every great man before you. You're a man.

[THE_Cityy🇳🇬✌🏾 @Imnot_bolu]

CAPITALISM
A system where businesses are privately owned and run for profit.

SOCIALISM
A system where the government or public owns major industries.

COMMUNISM
A system where all property is shared and there are no social classes.

COLONIALISM
When a country settles in and rules another land.

IMPERIALISM
When a powerful country extends control over other countries.

NEOCOLONIALISM
Indirect control of a country through economic or political pressure.

FEUDALISM
A system where landowners control land and peasants work it.

FASCISM
An authoritarian system with strong nationalism and strict control.

NATIONALISM
Strong loyalty and devotion to one’s nation.

ANARCHISM
The belief that society should exist without government.

TOTALITARIANISM
A system where the government controls nearly all aspects of life.

[Helen Casanova | Seduction Palace @HelenCasanova_]

Nine Sex therapists revealed the 7 skills men who last longer in bed always master.

Their answers were nearly identical..

Learning these skills will take you from average to unforgettable in the bedroom.

Here they are…...

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“To be happy you must eliminate two things: The fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past.”

— Seneca

[Gabriel Oguda @gabrieloguda]

Prime Otieno Kajwang was the energy booster you needed to begin your day.

[Dhaval (Investment Books) @InvestmentBook1]

🙌

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Vincent van Gogh, an all time banger

[Gabriel Oguda @gabrieloguda]

Isn't this the same Amolo who was tortured like a thief yet he didn't steal?

Is this not the Amolo who slept on neck-deep waters when other men slept with their wives like locust in the grass?

Amoooolo! Amoooolo!

[OBA OF P.H 👑 @obaofph01]

Physiological Truths About Men Who Treat Their Birthdays Like a Normal Day
1. They’re used to doing life alone.
From childhood, nobody really made a big deal out of their special moments — so they learned not to expect anything.

2. They’re naturally low-maintenance.
Gifts, parties, noise — it’s never been their thing. Peace is their real celebration.

3. They pour into others more than they receive.
They’re the “strong one,” the one everyone calls… but when it’s their turn, they don’t want to feel like a burden.

4. They’ve learned to make themselves happy.
A quiet meal, a prayer, a moment alone — it’s enough. They’re used to creating their own joy.

5. They measure life in progress, not dates. To them, a new year is not about cake 🎂 it’s about whether they’ve grown, improved, or achieved.

[George Njoroge @georgenjoroge_]

This is my friend, James Njuguna Kamau.

He started life with discipline stitched into his bones.
Kingeero Primary.
Alliance high school.
Top of his class every single time.

He graduated with first-class honors in Engineering at the University of Nairobi in 1967, then finished a PhD long before his peers even wrapped up their Masters.

He never smoked.
Never touched alcohol.
Never chased scandal of women.
Never stained his name.

He chose one woman.
Married her.
Stayed faithful to her for life.

He raised four brilliant children and sent all of them to the Ivy Leagues on merit, doors he opened with sacrifice, late nights, quiet work and money he never spent on himself.

He gave them the life he never had.
And they took it.
And they went abroad.
And they stayed there.

Now he is in his seventies.
A well respected professor.
A man who shaped generations.
But in the house he built with his wife, he is a ghost moving from room to room.

He stood in his kitchen today, staring at raw chicken, trying to remember how chicken tikka is made.
Because he’s alone.
Utterly alone.

His wife left four years ago to “help their daughter” in Melbourne after childbirth.
Routine visit, she said.
She never came back.

She now belongs to the children.
Birthdays are FaceTime calls.
Anniversaries reduced to emojis in group chats.
Her body is abroad.
Her heart left long before her flight.

And this man who lived right, loved right, did right, has been abandoned without ever doing anything wrong.
A bachelor again.
Not by sin.
Not by choice.
But by quiet, creeping neglect from the very people he built his world around.

This is the lonely end of a good man.

A man who never cheated.
Never strayed.
Never hurt anyone.
A man who believed that doing everything by the book would protect him in old age.

Yet here he stands:
Alone.
Heartbroken.
Still loyal to a woman who forgot to come home.

And the saddest part?

His story is not rare. This is the silent fate of many “good men”, men who poured themselves out until nothing was left for them.

So the hard questions linger:

If he was a polygamist… would at least one wife have stayed?

If he built stronger friendships, social circles, a life outside the family… would the silence be softer?

If he had someone, anyone, who checked in on him the way he checked in on everyone else… would he feel this invisible?

If he had lived even 20% for himself… would this ending still look this cruel?

This is not an invitation to abandon virtue.
It’s a plea to balance it.
Because loyalty is beautiful.
But loneliness is unforgiving.

And love, when it stops being mutual in old age, becomes a slow, quiet heartbreak that medicine can’t treat and time can’t fix.

To every man reading this:

How do we avoid ending up like this?

What systems, friendships and self-preserving habits must we build now so that at 75, we are not standing over a lonely kitchen counter, whispering to ourselves, “Where did everyone go?”

Because in 2025, being a good man is no longer enough.
Not by itself.
Not anymore.

[🦉 🧘🏽‍♂️spiRituaL🧘🏽‍♂️ @spiRiituaL]

The Romance between Poverty and Religion.

1. Poverty and religion feed each other.
One provides the pain…
the other provides the story to survive the pain.

2. You were not created to abandon your gifts
just to fit into someone else’s idea of “holy.”

3. Many were raised to believe questioning religion is a sin.
So instead of learning how life works,
they wait for life to change by miracle.

4. Wealth gives options.
Poverty gives dependency.
When you don’t have power, you look for power through prayer.

5. Poverty teaches patience.
People start tolerating what they should be changing, all in the name of “God will do it.”

6. When you blame the devil for everything,
you never study the system.
And when you never study the system,
the system keeps winning.

7. Faith isn’t the problem. Ignorance is.

8. Religion teaches people to be grateful for anything... even when the “anything” is destroying their future.

9. Poverty trains people to wait.
And the more you wait, the deeper you sink.

10.Some churches thrive because poverty thrives.
A desperate man is the easiest man to control.

11. Poverty steals your confidence…
and religion gives you words to hide the fear you don’t want to confront.

12. Religion is the only place where some people feel powerful without doing anything powerful.

13. Some people aren’t seeking God…
they’re seeking permission to tolerate their suffering.

14. Some don’t want financial literacy.
They want “divine alert.”

15. When you’re broke, every problem becomes “spiritual attack,”
even when it’s just poor planning.

16. Poverty builds strong imaginations.
People start seeing enemies everywhere.
Sometimes the enemy is just hunger & frustration.

17. Some people’s entire financial strategy is:
“God will do it.”
Meanwhile, God is waiting for them to stand up.

18. Some people don’t need prophets…
they need exposure.

19. Religion glorifies smallness.
“You don’t need much, just be content.”
That’s why many settle for tiny businesses with no future, while the world is built by goalgetters.

A goalgetter is someone whose ambition is louder than their excuses.

20.Break the cycle:
Pray if you want…
but upgrade your skills, your environment, and your ambition.
God blesses movement, not silliness. Don't repeat the mistake of your parents.

21. Generational wealth is not a prophecy... it is architecture.
You build it or you don’t.

22. Some people never meet their true selves…
only the version their religion approves.

23. The world loses countless great people because they were taught to silence their most authentic parts.
Any belief system that kills your curiosity
is robbing you of the mind God gave you.
God does not fear your intelligence.
Humans do.

24.If your faith cannot coexist with your growth,
something is wrong... and it’s not you.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Reading is essential.

[Compassion International @compassion]

Your compassion today is building the kingdom tomorrow. Trust the process, even when you can't see the fruit. 🙏