This is 42 😍
Happy birthday to a Queen. The love of my life, my best friend, my biggest fan.
Today, I celebrate the woman I’ve become and the woman I’m still becoming.
I’ve worked hard, overcome challenges, built beautiful things, helped others, and continued to rise no matter what life has thrown my way.
I am stronger, wiser, more confident, and more determined than ever.
This new chapter will be bigger, brighter, and more beautiful than anything I’ve experienced before.
Here’s to growth, purpose, success, joy, and every blessing that has my name on it.
The best is yet to come.
Happy Birthday to me. ❤️
This video is a call for help.
My mum is battling with stroke, and it is slowly taking her life. She needs urgent medical funds to stay alive, and I cannot do this alone anymore. Please, if you have it in your heart to help or retweet this to someone who can, I beg of you 🤲🏻🙏
I hope you’re never at the mercy of anyone.
But if life happens and you do find yourself suddenly at their mercy, I hope they’re actually merciful to you.
I hope they are kind. I hope you get the help you need from them without being abused, shamed or taken advantage of.
“Low effort friends,” meanwhile the whole time they may be at rock bottom, fighting for their lives, but still forcing themselves to show up because they don’t want to be those friends who always ruin plans or make excuses.
I have said it before: money makes you a better friend, partner, sibling, parent, colleague, etc. When you don’t have money, you cannot bring your thoughts to life. You turn down invites from friends to avoid embarrassment, and lowkey they begin to think you don’t like them like that.
Okay, then you decide to show up with the little you have, probably because your friends insisted that it doesn’t matter and they understand your condition. But you get there and realize everyone came correct, and suddenly you begin to feel small. You start overthinking everything; how you look, what you wore, what you ordered, what you could or couldn’t contribute.
I know we are all assuming because we do not know these people’s stories. However, it is not nice to label strangers “low effort friends” just from a video they made and posted themselves.
Also, if you are not liquid enough to comfortably show up for an event or gathering like this, I strongly advise that you don’t show up tbh. They will still see you as a bad or low effort friend anyway. But they’ll be alright. Only you truly know your story, your struggles, and how hard you are trying to stay afloat.