I highly recommend having hobbies cause it distracts you from falling in love unnecessarily, and I have an explanation. An ideal mind always mistakes loneliness with love, but busy minds have standards, because when most of your days are filled with things like lifting, creating, reading, learning things like that, you stop chasing people for excitement, because we have a really bad habit of romanticizing every bit of attention that we get. Even if it was not not directed at us with the same intensity of intention, most of the time you are simply wanting something to do.Instead of the feel that you're confusing with wanting.And I strongly believe that best relationships are built when two complete lives meet instead of two bored people who try to become each other's hobby, the interdependence in that situation would create the pressure which finally would become the reason for the eventual breakdown.
WELCOME TO MABINI BOTTOM 🇵🇭
A Filipino twist on Bikini Bottom, inspired by our everyday chaos…flooding, packed transport, corruption, and politics.
“Mabini” comes from Apolinario Mabini, one of the Philippines’ national heroes.
Welcome to our side of the ocean.
The biggest risk in this cocaine case may not have been arrest, it was the attempt to solve a temporary money problem with a potentially permanent consequence
NDLEA says a 25-year-old newlywed businessman was arrested at Enugu airport while allegedly attempting to travel to Portugal with 72 wraps of cocaine inside his body. The agency says he later expelled the packets and reportedly told investigators he entered the alleged trafficking arrangement to offset expenses from his recent wedding. These remain allegations; he has not been presented here as convicted.
That explanation, if accurate, carries a wider lesson.
Wedding debt is temporary. But trying to escape it through an extremely high-risk decision can create problems far larger than the original financial pressure: loss of income, legal expenses, disrupted travel, reputational damage and enormous strain on a new marriage.
There was also a danger that had nothing to do with law enforcement. Swallowing drug packets can be medically life-threatening; research on “body packing” shows that a packet can rupture and cause acute cocaine poisoning, while intestinal obstruction is another recognised complication.
That makes the alleged reason particularly striking.
Someone may be trying to recover money spent celebrating the beginning of a marriage, yet the method chosen can potentially threaten health, freedom, livelihood and the marriage itself.
The broader lesson is not really about expensive weddings.
Temporary financial embarrassment is usually cheaper than an irreversible shortcut taken to escape it.
If your child admits they broke something, deal with what they broke.
But be careful what you add because they came to tell you.
“You mean you had the guts to come here and say this?”
Would you prefer a missing remote, a suspiciously quiet house and three children blaming one another?
There can still be a consequence.
They can help clean up. They can repair what they can. You can explain why they should have listened.
But leave room to say, “Thank you for telling me.”
You want the truth when the problem gets bigger than a broken cup.
French artist Pierre Sernet traveled to more than 30 countries with a portable Japanese tea room, inviting strangers to share a traditional tea ceremony.
Set in deserts, villages and busy cities, the project explored what different cultures can still have in common. 🍵🌍