Until it happens to you, you think you're too careful to make that mistake, too smart to fall for traps, too mature to lose control, too private to be exposed, too religious to drift, too responsible to collapse. Life dismantles every identity built on certainty.
You cannot rush life. Things happen when they are supposed to happen. Your role is to show up everyday and give it your best. Your best will not be the same everyday. There are days you’ll be motivated and some you’ll feel defeated. And such is life! Keep keeping on!
You can read all the books. Watch all the documentaries. Listen to all the stories. But nothing, and I mean nothing, will prepare you for certain moments in life until you're standing in them yourself. Marriage. Divorce. Childbirth. Losing someone you love. Parenting. They all look so different when it's your heart on the line. Your choices. Your pain. Your mess. Your miracle.
It's easy to sit on the outside with theories, opinions, and assumptions. It's easy to think you'd handle it better. Until life turns to you and says, "Your turn." And suddenly, you understand. You understand the tears. The silence. The fight to keep going. The strength it takes to show up when everything feels heavy. The courage it takes to start over.
Life has a way of humbling us all. So be slow to judge, quick to offer grace, and always remember, what you don't understand today, you just might face tomorrow. We're all just figuring it out as we go. And that's more than okay.
I don’t know how it started, but I’ve stopped running with music. All my long distance runs are without music now.
Yes, EVEN THE MARATHON. I ran an entire 42.2kilometer marathon without music.
Personally, i think it’s unhinged behavior but it’s perfect for me.
Asked my mum for a bicycle and she said if I came 1st in class and hit the 90% threshold I'd get it
I had always come first with like 70% so I got to work,I practiced, studied and when the results came out I had 93% and finished in the best 3 students in that class in my entire LGA, I remember coming home that day happy that I'd get the bicycle only to be told what happened to 94%.
Something in me d!ed that day.
Apartment hunting, furniture shops, car websites, google mapping the distance, calculating petrol/taxi/uber fare. Planning the salary already, man what a dream.
it can REALLY be you. Homelessness, deaťh, no job…… Literally anything unfortunate can happen in the blink of an eye, life is crazy like that. Always stay humble and be grateful.