Getting married is an act of faith, because there’s no perfect partner and no perfect readiness to marry.
There’s only, “I have entered this covenant trusting that He who began this good work in us will bring it to completion.”
The joy of owning beautiful things, a good knife, a proper linen towel, a jar of excellent honey, one soul encapsulating perfume, over many mediocre things. Doing this slowly across every domain.
Michael Jackson’s drummer, Jonathan Moffett, performs “Smooth Criminal,”
MJ once said: “My bass player makes a mistake, my guitar player makes a mistake, I make mistakes sometimes, but Sugarfoot never makes a mistake.”
I might be wrong on this but there's never been a time Nigerian women were locked out of the work force and had to enter it en masse. I think we overly westernize our reality.
The closer truth is that yes, working moms helped popularize indomie but that's because Nigerian staples take notoriously long to make. So mothers, many who were already working, found Indomie extremely convenient— a full meal in a pack, in 2 minutes.
Next April, 2027 at this exact time, you’ll be standing in the places you used to dream about. Living your most beautiful rich life. Send this to yourself.
Being laid off without any sign of landing a job, depleting my savings to survive, praying for a parent with cancer, all while battling depression has been the hardest journey of my adult life.
I’m overwhelmed. I’m sad. But I’m hopeful and committed to see this through. ❤️