“Nnu Ego lay down by the roadside, thinking that she had arrived home. She died quietly there, with no child to hold her hand and no friend to talk to her. She had never really made many friends, so busy had she been building up her joys as a mother.”
I cried.😭
A friend of mine makes and sells oil perfumes, so I decided to support her by buying two different fragrances.
When the first bottle finished, I could not bring myself to throw it away. The same thing happened with the second bottle.
The bottles were still neat, strong, and reusable.
Then I thought,
“Why can’t she reuse these bottles to package new perfumes?”
The only thing she needed to change was the label because the old one had faded.
So I reached out to her and told her I wanted to return the empty bottles.
She was genuinely shocked.
She said nobody had ever returned perfume bottles to her before, and she had never even considered reusing them.
I had to explain my thought process to her.
Eventually, she accepted the idea, collected the bottles, cleaned them properly, and repackaged new fragrances in them.
Just like that, those bottles avoided ending up in a landfill.
Now imagine if more people started doing this with all the glass perfume bottles we use, both local and international brands.
It may seem small, but actions like this can reduce waste and environmental pollution over time.
If you are a LOCAL PERFUME PRODUCER, maybe it is time to start encouraging CUSTOMERS to return their empty bottles for REUSE.
Day 60/365
After a breakup, a man will come out and brag about everything he does for a woman, you people will back him up, but when a woman does same, suddenly it’s “no let woman feed you”
The hypocrisy is glaring.
In Nigeria, a man could be harassing a lady in public and his fellow men will say things like
“E like you nau”
“Your shakara too much”
“Nah why you never see husband”
None of them would actually call the man to order.
In the same way, people who are brutally honest are never brutally honest about praising you or being kind. It's always the bad stuff they have to say that they feel the inability to temper.
I hate it when someone dies of cancer, and we start giving medical advice. Stop being insensitive. There is no single CAUSE of Cancer; there are interactions of multiple factors. I've seen fitness junkies develop cancer at an early age, and those with the most unhealthy lifestyles live disease-free until old age. Even though we encourage a healthy lifestyle through health education, let's choose our moments so that our good intentions aren't misconstrued, please🙏
Babies get raped. Elderly women get raped. Women dressed modestly get raped. Women in hijabs get raped. Nuns get raped. Women in jeans, tracksuits, pajamas, school uniforms, and work uniforms get raped. There is no outfit that prevents rape and no outfit that invites it.
If you are more comfortable analyzing a woman’s clothing than condemning a rapist, you are part of the problem.