@DrJohnBishop You have spoken well, people with many followers have more followers than people with few followers who are into the same content creation. Sometimes the smaller content creator may even have better content
Talking stage is usually very exciting in the beginning; all your hopes are up! However, after 2 to 4 weeks, the tempo begins to reduce.
If you're lucky enough to get to the "meet and greet" stage, you might only have 2 or 3 encounters before receiving the occasional text message saying, "I’m sorry, I don’t think this can work" or "I don’t think I can do this; it's not for me".
The worst is you get ghosted. Nothing is more annoying than being ghosted. You wonder if the person didn’t fancy you or if something happened to them. It hits your self-esteem like Dangote’s trailers do their hit and run.
But guess what? You still start another talking stage with a new person as early as the next week sef. Even though there’s still that uncertainty of not knowing if it will work or not.
Life can be like the "talking stage". You start this exciting new chapter of your life, apply for a new job, start a new business or project, or even write a professional exam, with high hopes that all will go well.
Then one day, you wake up to an email that starts with "unfortunately..." or you get a phone call that starts with "I’m sorry...". Or you find that the job no longer excites you like you thought it would.
Be resilient enough in life to never give up on your search for happiness. Just like you don’t give up on love after a failed talking stage. Even if you fail once, try and try again.
Don’t allow it lead you into depression. Tell yourself that it didn’t work out because it was just talking stage. When the real deal comes along everything will fall into place.
Just because you're down now doesn't mean you will remain down forever. As the Bible says in Micah 7:8 says, "May God give us the grace to overcome the challenges we face in life.”
My friend, @DR_Tima is the author of this piece. I’ve only just added a few bit to it.
Let’s play a game. Winner gets at least 150k.
We will all vote for which month has the most birthday celebrants.
It will be 3 months against each other for the first round.
The months that win will then be out against themselves for the final round.
To be clear: First round will be
Jan vs Feb vs Mar in group 1
Apr vs May vs Jun in group 2
Jul vs Aug vs Sep in group 3
Oct vs Nov vs Dec in group 4
The 4 winners will then be polled for a final winner.
The final winner are the celebrants of that month. There will be a riddle at the end for only celebrants of that month to participate and the first correct answer wins.
Obviously the person will have to show proof that they were born in the champion month.
If there are others who want to raise the winning money you can DM me and I will post the updated amount.
The first polls are in the subsequent posts below this and will be open for 7 days
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If you’re pregnant or have a pregnant family member this thread is for you. It is a very very very long thread so bookmark it and grab a drink.
This Week By Week Guide for you to understand what is happening inside you until the day your bundle of joy is delivered.
Pregnancy is the period between when a woman conceives up till when the products of the conception comes out of her.
The desire of every mother is for her pregnancy to reach the end and produce a healthy baby.
It is thus imperative for you to know what to expect as it concerns your body and the baby in you.
Every pregnancy is unique and you should know that the information provided is a guide that is based on estimates from studies.
Pregnancy is divided into 3 basic time frames medically called trimesters:
• First trimester - week 0 - 12
• Second trimester - week 13 - 27
• Third trimester - week 28 - 42
FIRST TRIMESTER
Week 0 - 4
The first 2 weeks of pregnancy is counted despite the fact that the baby has not yet formed. It is the period during which a woman prepares for getting pregnant.
Week 1 starts from the first day of your last menses. The womb sheds its lining as it does every month but this time something magical will happen.
By the second week, your womb will start getting prepared to house a baby. Ovulation (release of egg) occurs at the end of the second week and this is the beginning of the window for which fertilisation occurs.
Fertilisation occurs in the third week. The "lucky" sperm fertilises your egg and genetic materials are mixed to form your baby.
Your baby's gender is determined by the chromosomes in the father's sperm. So it is the man that decides the baby’s gender not the woman. Men out there that are punishing their wives for “giving them” only one gender, it is your fault if any.
If 2 eggs are released and are fertilized by two separate sperm, fraternal twins (di-zygotic) have been conceived. Fraternal twins can be the same sex or different sex but will not look identical.
If one egg is fertilized and later divides into two, identical twins will develop (or divides into three, identical triplets will develop, etc).
Identical multiples have the same chromosomal make-up so will be the same gender, and have the same hair/eye colour, blood type, etc.
By the fourth week, a pregnancy test will show a positive result 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽 or 🥲🥲🥲 depending on whether you want the pregnancy or not.
You may start to feel bloated, crampy, tired, moody, experiencing sore breasts, nausea/vomiting and a frequent need to pee.
However a good number of woman do not show any symptom at all. But if you are carrying twins or more, then your symptoms will be amplified.
The common denominator if you pay attention to your body is that you will notice that your period has been delayed! This is the time you either get happy, anxious or panic
As for your baby this is the period of implantation. Your baby is medically referred to as a blastocyst at this stage.
It will look for a good spot in your womb and take its roots there. It will then form two groups of cells - one group forms the baby and the other group forms the placenta.
Physically, there is nothing yet that will show in a woman's body for her to know that she's pregnant within the first 4 weeks.
It is important to state here that women intending to get pregnant should be on a daily dose of folic acid.
Stop smoking, drinking of alcohol and use of drugs that are not prescribed by your doctor.
Exercise more, eat more fruits and vegetables This is called pre-conception care and it can help reduce the risk of your child having birth defects.
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Can we all officially agree that we have no government?
Nigerians did this. Raised over 17m to help this man. Nobody asked his tribe, religious or political affiliations.
Imagine how far we will go as a country if we actually had a functioning selfless government.
They don’t provide electricity, we buy generators.
They don’t provide water, we get boreholes and wells.
They don’t provide national insurance, we pay from our pockets.
They don’t fix the roads, we buy SUVs.
They don’t provide security, we create civil defence.
They don’t provide good working conditions, we japa.
Now we are crowdfunding for kidnap ransoms.
We have enabled the incompetence of the government for generations.