Male isolation tends to feel like it came from nowhere. The thirty-year-old still has his college friendships running on inertia. The forty-year-old still has work friendships running on proximity. But I’ve seen what comes after that. The kids leave. Work changes. Somebody retires. And one day a man who used to have people around him all the time sits in his kitchen and realizes he doesn’t actually know who to call.
There wasn’t a single moment he could point to. He didn’t become harder to like. He just never built anything that didn’t depend on showing up in the same place as someone else. The realization felt sudden. It had been building for decades. It just took decades for the consequences to catch up.
That’s why “no one checks on me” so often shows up later in life, after a divorce, after retirement, after the kids move out. Not because the world suddenly turned cold, but because all the things that used to create contact for him finally ran out at the same time, and he never built anything of his own to replace them.
“Thank you for saving my life when I thought you were ruining it”
My father just laughed and replied:
“If I waited for my children to understand me before protecting them, I would have failed as a father”
Sometimes, the strict father isn't trying to control you.
Sometimes, he's carrying fears he can't even explain.
And sometimes, the person standing in your way is actually standing between you and danger.
Happy Father's Day to the fathers who are willing to be misunderstood if that's what it takes to protect their children🫂
Has your father ever done something you hated at the time, only for you to understand it years later? ❤️
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There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online.
He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history.
He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing.
His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living.
He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action.
He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation.
Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not.
Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation.
He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk.
He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation.
The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable.
Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom.
But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back.
Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.
Nobody is coming to save you.
Growing up, I sold bread at a public bus stop for years and whenever I share that part of my story, people rarely believe me.
Maybe because they only know the version of me they see today.
But those late nights taught me resilience, responsibility, and the importance of taking ownership of my life.
One lesson has stayed with me ever since - No one is coming to rescue you. You have to believe in yourself enough to keep going, even when your circumstances suggest otherwise.
Your starting point doesn’t define your destination.
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The moment you spend three years in an organizations, you won't know when you'll do six years and before you know it you have spent 10 years.
When you tell people you have spent ten years in the same role as a Sales Representative, they'll think it's a joke.
They'll feel pity for you and that's the only thing you get. Pity!
The truth remains that, the moment you stop looking for the next level because you're comfortable where you are, your career stagnation starts there.
Your only bragging right becomes,
"Do you know how many years I've spent in this company? I was here when we started with no computers."
Your colleagues would just be looking at you in pity.
1. Sending your pictures to people to post on their status on your birthday. If you’re important to them, you absolutely don’t need to do that BS.
2. Forgiving a cheating partner. It shows that you don’t think you deserve better. A sign of low self-esteem.
3. Listening to music and watching movies you genuinely don’t like or enjoy because of social media validation.
4. Pandering to a particular set of people by saying things you don’t even believe in just to gain their attention or approval.
5. Dating or marrying someone who doesn’t know how to cook.
6. Famzing or àss-kissing just to get close to someone you don’t even like for your own selfish interests.
7. Posting birthday wishlists.
8. Using money to impress or prove a point to someone who has made it clear, without mincing words, that they don’t like you.
9. Doing giveaways on social media when you have friends, family, and loved ones who are struggling.
10. Begging for love, sex, attention, care, and reciprocity.
11. Doing a BBL instead of going to the gym.
12. Trying to prove to an audience that
doesn’t care about you that you’re rich.
13. Frequently mocking, belittling, or judging people to feel superior by comparison.
14. People-pleasing: constantly sacrificing your happiness and comfort for people who wouldn’t do the same for you simply because you lack the courage to say NO.
15. The need to win every argument. You don’t want to learn; you always want to be right. And more often than not, you’re just loud, ignorant, and wrong.
You called your uncle to send you something, saying school was choking. He sent you 5k, in 2016, and you were like “just 5k”.
Now that you are working, they sent you message on WhatsApp you off read receipt, Oghenekaro reply that boy.
“That boy calls you uncle, do not starve him”
If you're a Christian who struggles with pornography and sexual immorality in general, here is something to help you along in your good fight against sin.
Praying it helps you.
Why is it that the government has to create cattle colonies.
When the beef isnt free.
Why cant the owners of these cattle find land, pay for it and rear their animals.
Stuck in traffic, bus driver plays one Dagrin song after another.
My eyes water not for the artist but for my pops, it's been almost two years.
Many times I forget, but the most random things remind me.
Another way of knowing if someone is planning on resigning is if they ask for their 30 days' leave at once. 🙂↔️🙂↔️
Those ones are planning to leave. 😅🙂↔️
Some Nigerian elites and politicians who've lived in the diaspora are lesser animals. It will be an insult to compare them to animals. They only live for their bellies. Posterity isn't a concern to them.
This would actually be a good thing. After spending a lot of time reading James, I started saying “InshaAllah” more often because even Christians oddly find it strange and uncomfortable when you naturally say “if God wills” in conversations.
Meanwhile, Muslims have “InshaAllah” embedded in their daily language and nobody questions it. So really, what’s wrong with saying “if God wills”? It’s a healthy reminder that we’re not fully in control of tomorrow.
Does this not explain some of our praise and worship songs? E.g “Some have food but cannot eat, some can eat but have no food… (wait for it), we have food and we can eat, glory be to thee oh Lord”.
We have used God as a tool for our inherent selfishness as a people. I pray we become enlightened and repent.
Insecurity is affecting the people
The people have epileptic power supply
I can go on, he should speak up for the people that look up to him as their spiritual leader
What does it even mean to stand with the people?
Stand with the most uniformed, loud and dumb ones... Over someone you have a personal relationship and they're mostly lying about?