Sam Ige

28,
Swansea Uni Chemical Engineering Graduate,
Software Engineer,
Sprinter
✝️

[ㅤً @Evertxn]

We chop and change Prime Ministers every two years because no one’s willing to accept the reality of the position the country finds itself in, and it becomes easy cope to keep blaming a central figure.

[Jurrien Timber @JurrienTimber]

How good is god man

[💎🇿🇦🇵🇹 @TJayyyy_1]

If you talk dirt on my name publicly, I’m gonna embarrass you publicly. The game is the game.

[𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩 𝚟𝚜 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔩𝔬𝔫 @DanielvsBabylon]

A lot of people miss this. The relationship with God is not a transactional one. Grace and favor are unmerited, or else it wouldn't be grace and favor, but wages.

Many people think, 'I'm a good Christian, I take my family to church, I pray daily, I help the poor, surely I am holding my end up of the bargain and God will bless me for it"

Or even just more simply "If I avoid this sin then God will answer my prayers for this new job"

If God were transactional we would remain in severe debt always. But through faith in Jesus we are credited with His faith and righteousness, and this opens up the pathway to receiving grace and blessings, whether they be worldly or spiritual, because God does desire for us to have the "fat of the land" and the good of His creation.

He has done so by giving everything to the Son, and by faith in Jesus, it is imputed on us. Everything we have has been given to us, and in no way has been earned.

Ironically, a transactional mindset DOES block blessings, because in a way it is a works salvation. It becomes "what can I do for God" rather than "What Jesus has done for me that I could never do" Gratitude over sacrifice. We do not win God's favor by undertaking big fasts, or showy signs of charity, or even because we are "soul winners" and preach the gospel to millions and countless credit us with bringing them to Christ. Those things, if we have them, are also gifts from God. Not something we have acquired by our own merits and efforts.

Self-sufficiency and dependency are contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, He desires total surrender. Give all your cares unto Him, knowing He will care for you better than you can.

[Chronikler @TheChroNikler]

Unironically, this is how C.S. Lewis became a Christian.

[positivity moon @arrtnem]

You read a list like that and it looks clean. Bad at math to CS at Harvey Mudd. Could not run to the end of the street, now your feet have carried you further than most people have ever driven in one day. Too shy to order pizza, now you stand in front of a room and tell people where to sit. Homesick kid who cried at midnight pick up, now buying one way tickets and learning how different cities smell at 06:40.

On the page it looks like magic. In the body it was probably a thousand small humiliations in a row.

You do not go from sucking at math to surviving problem sets because your brain suddenly decided to be gifted. You go because you sat there at 00:23 with a half dead mechanical pencil, eyes burning, staring at a proof that made you feel like you were made of static. You go because you went to office hours where you felt stupid. Because you watched other kids raise their hands while you tried not to throw up from the feeling of being behind. You do it enough times that eventually the panic in your chest shows up twenty minutes later instead of right away. Then one day someone asks you to explain something and your mouth answers before your fear gets there.

Getting good at something often just means your shame got tired of showing up first.

Same with the running. There is this myth that people who finish ultramarathons are built different. Some are. Most are just the same person who once got a side stitch at minute four, hated their life, and still put their shoes on again two days later. Blisters that burst in cheap socks. Knees that complained for a week after that first 10k. Early mornings where the alarm rang at 05:10 and you lay there bargaining with nobody. You do it enough, and at some point your brain quietly files “I can run for hours” under normal, the same way it once filed “I sit in chairs.”

The body learns almost anything if you make it uncomfortable in the same direction often enough without killing it.

The shy phone calls are my favorite part of list. Everyone thinks confidence is this personality trait some people got in their starter pack. In reality it looks like you holding your phone, your thumb hovering over the call button, heart pounding for a stupid pickup order. Voice cracking when they say “how can I help you.” Getting the order wrong. Hanging up and replaying it twelve times in your head while you eat lukewarm food. Then doing it again next week. And again. One day it is boring. You are halfway through spelling your name before you realize you did not rehearse.

From there to hosting events is the same ladder, just more rungs. One tiny interaction at a time where you did not die.

A child who could not sleep in a different house without their stomach twisting, who counted the hours till morning under a stranger’s glow in the dark stickers. That same nervous system now stamps passports. Airport bathrooms, rental sheets, different ceilings every month. The grief is that nobody sees the link. They see the cool solo traveler, not the kid who trained for this by feeling like their chest was collapsing at ten years old on a friend’s floor and somehow making it to morning.

If you zoom out, the pattern is simple: repetition changes what your nervous system calls “possible.” Do something enough, and your brain stops ringing the fire alarm every time. Not because you became a completely different, but because your internal risk calculator updates its numbers.

The dangerous lie would be to pretend this is easy. “Just do it a lot.” As if “a lot” does not include failure, boredom that tastes like cardboard, embarrassment that makes your ears burn, mornings where the last thing you want is another rep. You can get good at almost anything, but the price is often your illusions.

You will find out how impatient you are. How much you hate being seen as a beginner. How quickly you want to quit when progress is not cinematic.

[Patrick Timmons @PatrickTimmons1]

A national treasure.

[Ken @K3N3_X]

Well said Adam. Bellingham’s parents know what they were doing taking him through Dortmund to Real Madrid, same they are doing to Jobe. They are avoiding EPL. Now you know why Musiala chose to play for Bayern Munich & Germany. Black players will soon avoid EPL if it doesn’t stop.

[Tosin Adebayor @Adebay0r__]

You see the Kante analogy is everything you need to know

[Thom Rainer @ThomRainer]

Yesterday, my grandson called me “just to talk.” We talked about school, football, church, and his new love of golf. We laughed. We laughed again.

After 45 minutes, he told me he had to go. The entire conversation was “just to talk.”

Whatever undeserved human recognition I get, whatever positions I have held, they all pale in comparison to having a grandson who “just wants to talk.”

I love my family.

I love them all so very much.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

i finally did it: someone was talking on the phone with loud speaker sitting close to me while we were inside the bus.

so I joined the conversation with full confidence. when she gave me that “are you mad?” look, I said, “sorry,I thought it was a group call since you put it on loudspeaker for all of us.”

she quietly told the person, “I’ll call you back,” and ended the call immediately. 🙂

[Marcus Milione @MarcusMilione]

I think the marathon is appealing because of the size (popularity) of the races (and it's obviously hard)

But you can make any distance hard... it just depends on how fast you want to get relative to your potential

Don't know where your potential is?

Well you're going to have to go through some dark places in both training and racing to figure out where that is

and THAT is the beauty in sport

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Jimmy Kimmel goes after Trump and Brendan Carr for trying to shut down his show:

“The President made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here, fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke…

This show is not important, what is important is we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this”

[OverSabi 🇳🇬 @korejay]

Because some of them are over religious people playing “pastor” copying what they see in church not understanding that it doesn’t translate well into the real world.

Also I’m convinced they don’t understand the bible well because the same bible says

“To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law.” 1st Corinthians 9:20

Which basically means, when evangelising, meet whoever you’re speaking with at THEIR level.

[Alex Predhome, Track and Field Enjoyer @Predamame]

I know that athletes praising their god can come off silly to some, but I think it's very understandable when you consider that they are statements of humility.

People know that great athletes are born. They are just saying "I have no control over being given this ability."

[ozzy @Pryce_Tags]

Cause that woman DID NOT jog 48.2 😭 she run full out for 370m and maintained for 30m

[𝓑ᥫ᭡ @quesadaaa_]

1. i don’t know how to express my feelings
2. i don’t like asking for help
3. i don’t know how to check up on people
4. i’m an overthinker
5. i’m quick to say nvm or leave it
6. i like being alone
7. i can’t express affection too much
8. i’m observant

[Jai-Zia Dax 🧘🏾‍♀️ @DreadedJai]

“When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children.”

[#Jingles3000 @beau4sho]

you better put some foil over that damn shit

[SEC, and CWC Champions @IOnlySayFacts]

All time quote and this might not even be a top 5 Michael Irvin quote