I was fixing my lashes when two friends started talking.
One said she was craving noodles and asked where she could get some.
The other replied, “Iconic, but it’s about ₦2k.”
Their married friend laughed and said:
“That’s small money. Let me call my husband. I’ll tell him it’s ₦10k.”
Her friend even advised, “Just say ₦4k.”
She refused.
Put the call on speaker and asked for ₦10k to buy food.
Her husband said:
“Which day that one start to use 10k buy food?”
Then he ended the call. 😭
Sis has been explaining all day that maybe he’s just not in a good mood.
Cute theory, let's play it out.
A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.
But... oh wait, there is no pile.
It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.
The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.
Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.
The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.
But it gets worse.
Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.
Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.
So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.
So the monkeys sit there.
No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.
Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.
OH
And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.
I'd like to add some nuance to this
There's a difference between performing and simply putting in effort.
I remember a guy who was asking me out and complained that I wasn't calling him "Ade mi" or cooking for him the way his ex did. I asked why they broke up.
Turns out they were both AS.
I couldn't do all that because it didn't feel natural to me, but here's the thing, there was another woman who cooked and cleaned for him consistently yet he never liked her.
Which tells you that the cooking was never really the point. 😄 Confusion.
Both men and women can be attentive, generous, and intentional when they're genuinely interested, and both can be inconsistent, nonchalant and complacent when the love isn't that deep.
So you need to ask yourself honestly: is this a performance, or is this just me loving this guy?
Because if a man never gave his partner a gift while dating, we'd call that a red flag. And rightly so.
The question isn't whether to put in effort in your relationship. The question is whether the effort reflects who you actually are, or who you think he needs you to be.
Show up as the most honest, sustainable version of yourself, but be willing to grow.
There's a man for every woman, but don't stay dirty,lazy, rude or stingy because of that fact.
Last week, I went to visit a family friend at her shop, and while we were talking, she called her 7-year-old daughter to get a bottle of Coke from the fridge. The little girl grabbed the bottle, slipped, and dropped it. The bottle shattered everywhere.
As I got up to ask if she was okay, she immediately got up, ignored the broken glass around her, ran out of the shop, and started crying. Her mother was livid. She called her back into the shop to face the consequences and yelled some hurtful words at her.
I helped clean up the mess and asked the child to stay outside because her mom was so upset. Then I asked the mother why she was so angry. She said the girl was too playful. I told her I had been watching and that the child wasn’t playing at all; she simply slipped and fell.
She repeated that the girl was always too playful. I acknowledged that she might be, but that wasn’t why the Coke dropped. I saw what happened: it was clear that she slipped.
I then asked her to try to understand the difference between a child being playful and an accident happening. After all, she could have dropped the bottle, too, if she had slipped. I reminded her that while our children can sometimes be playful, accidents happen, and they are still just kids.
We shouldn’t beat or punish them for every mistake. Sometimes, we need to talk to them instead.
Imagine being so afraid of your parent that you run over broken glass just to avoid being punished. What if she had slipped again and gotten seriously hurt? All over a mistake that could happen to anyone.
I understand that parenting is hard and can be exhausting, but we need to stop taking our frustrations out on our children. It’s not okay.
She was quiet for most of the conversation because I was upset, too. Later, she wanted to use food as a way of apologizing, asking her, “Come here, I know you are hungry. What would you like to eat?” but I insisted that she talk to her daughter instead. I wanted the child to understand that it was just an accident and to hear from her mother that accidents happen.
Sometimes, that’s what children need most, not punishment, but understanding.
So, my fellow parents, please and please and please. These kids are just kids. Their brains are just developing, and they need our help, support, and guidance through these stages. Do not blame and punish them for everything.
You want to give up? Your anus hair didnt.
No sunlight.
No fresh air.
No Shampoo.
No Hair oil.
No Conditioner.
It takes all the shit and it’s still growing.
You finish abroad you come back Nigeria to come write MDCN exam, I go just assume say you no love yourself tbh, country wey people Dey run Comot you Dey come back, why na..?
BSc - Medical laboratory science
MSc - Molecular medicine with distinction
MSc - International regulatory science
PhD - Pharmaceutical and Biomedical science
Cert - Clinical trial design and management
Cert - Int regulatory science
Beverly Hirsh Frank Fellow
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