Rejoice Obike

Storytelling is an art I have perfected. A communication strategist and writer interested in telling stories about everything.

[Rejoice Obike @RegyWrites]

Consensus is slowly killing individualism.

We can’t even think for ourselves.

[Rejoice Obike @RegyWrites]

Get off the fucking road!

[𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗦 📀 @AlbumTalksHQ]

🚨 Davido's outfit for the FIFA WORLD CUP Countdown Concert featured a custom jacket with the names of the kidnapped kids & teachers from Oyo 🥺

Respect 👏🏽

[Premier League USA @PLinUSA]

Bangers only ‼️

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Run it back ⏪🔥

[Rejoice Obike @RegyWrites]

Uk version is ss2coded. 😂

[Love Island @LoveIsland]

First Look: The boys are mad after the challenge exposes ”double standards” from the girls… but after giving them the cold shoulder back at the Villa, it soon turns into a tense clash! 🫣 #LoveIsland

[Ụlọma @ulxma]

It’s so hilarious how women in particular have been rallying around this guy who has said himself that he’s a serial cheater and liar to boot the woman off for committing the worst sin of embarrassing him, as they prepare to go to their next Chris Brown concert mind you.

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

Your job isn’t your place of fulfillment. There are so many ways to find fulfillment that doesn’t have to be your job.

[Rejoice Obike @RegyWrites]

But the men are perfect and can do no wrong. 😑

[D🦇 @bluepantheress]

“aniya isn’t doing enough” “melanie is doing too much” damned if they do and damned if they don’t

[Rejoice Obike @RegyWrites]

Adds this to the list of things that make cringe.

[UGO 🇬🇧 @heismric]

Long before all this drama, your gender already queues in my TikTok dm requests, steady 5+ requests per day when I post consistently. I literally deactivate my TikTok every 4 months to cool off their attention. I don’t care for the attention, I have always had it by God’s design.

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

I’ve been to countries poorer than ours whose citizens don’t behave the way we do when money is involved. It's so shameful.

[Nze @nzemmili]

Suddenly, flights become 50€, and Ryan can even go as low as 30€.

This thirdworld life can be really frustrating.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are.

For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland).

Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates).

Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something.

These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅

Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers.

Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth.

What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc.

Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing.

To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was.

I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away.

THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth.

At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in.

Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity.

This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes.

When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand.

Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current.

This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside.

So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

[Rejoice Obike @RegyWrites]

Melanie is spicy and crazy.🤣 I like.

#LoveIsland

[Rihanna @rihanna]

back at it with @Edward_Enninful 🧡

#EE72

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

That level of wealth at Monaco is NOT going to be attainable for 99% of you reading this. This is the honest to God truth.

However, we also don’t need that level of affluence.

A content life is the best way to go.

You have your car, your house, you can eat whatever you want, travel anywhere you want, be content. Enjoy it. Be happy.

You don’t need to own a super yacht or a $5m car.

[Rejoice Obike @RegyWrites]

Melanie is becoming my favorite. Her personality is so fun.

#loveisland

[Gio CR7 @ArobaseGiovanny]

🔴🔴 - "Lionel Messi ou Cristiano Ronaldo ?"

- Kylian Mbappé : "(rires) J'ai joué avec Messi, j'ai joué contre Cris... En fait ils sont vraiment différents. Il y a vraiment TOUT qui les oppose."

- "Est-ce que t'es d'accord avec : y en a un c'est le travail, l'autre c'est le talent"

- Kylian Mbappé : "Sans condescendance : ça c'est un truc de mec qui joue pas au foot. Si t'arrives à me dire que Cristiano n'a pas de talent ou que Messi n'a pas travaillé c'est que jamais dans ta vie t'as mis des crampons pour aller t'entraîner tous les jours."

(SORARE)

[Love Island USA @loveislandusa]

"We're literally just watching our demise!" 😱 Tonight's #LoveIslandUSA brings the first challenge of the summer AND a new Bombshell - don't miss it at 9pm ET, only on @Peacock ❤️‍🔥