Peace of mind is simple, you mind your own business, you keep investing in yourself, you take care of your family, you help your friends, you give yourself time to read, write, think, you don’t take yourself too seriously, you eat, exercise, sleep well, and you enjoy the present.
This guy pushes the biggest trolley at the supermarket. He has white earphones with wires running through his t-shirt, to the phone in his hand. He plants the trolley in front of me.
I'm standing in line with bread and some cash (I've recently been reduced to carrying cash).
Hi guys.
My friend, Christianah, is fighting for her life with myasthenia gravis in UCH. We served together, and she’s such an important woman to me.
Please support her treatment financially in any way that you can.
You can also kindly RT for reach 🙏🏽
Thank you. God bless you.
2016, in my homeless days, visited 2 very rich family members ( I mean bastardly rich, they both owned tank farms) In Portharcourt so I could just beg them for help ! Even if it’s for food!
First one never picked my calls and the second one when I got to her gate, told the security man not to let me in! She brought an envelope of 5k or 10k and told me she wouldn’t want me around, but if I need anything I should let her know! House that I once lived in!
I went my back to my uncompleted building, cried and composed this Yoruba song!
“ God, if you were the one that created me and brought me to earth, lift me up and have mercy on me” 😂
I always find a talent when I’m in shit
Promised myself that I’ll never, go to anyone for money again or food! That I’ll depend on God alone and make sure I get anything doing, even if it’s to pack poo!
Then I packed all my things and moved back to Lag! And grind like I would die!
Started from taxi driving and added teaching, to soap and paint making, painting houses, furniture and interior design, cooking and house cleaning! Selling of cloths!
Y’all, I did everything I could so I wouldn’t beg for food! It was hard some days but TODAY THE 10th Of March, 2024, I am 1000 far up from where I used to be!
God blessed me first with good people, and he wiped my shame away! He blessed me and made me a blessing to thousands!
This is to encourage you that the phase of life you are would change! Don’t stop working and don’t stop trusting in God! ❤️
Happy Sunday! Bels ❤️
Don’t mind the picture! Not slept well in days 🥺
My manager once said something like “due to some natural deficiencies, such as family background and location, you may need to work 3x more than others in order to be successful”
He is right. When I was married to a Nigerian passport-holder many years ago, we would be held back and be among the last to board. In spite of countless travels with no history of visa infractions, we would pay for hotel, flight and all sorts of tests only to have the visa rejected at the last minute with no reasons given. When he was invited to a conference in the US by a major American think tank, he was detained by immigration and missed his connecting flight. I had to fight the processing office in South Africa to get his visa approved so he could attend the birth of our baby. It was so stressful, my sister believes it's the reason my baby came out early.
But I also know that literally everywhere I go, there are Nigerian criminals who are so loud and brazen about their crimes that they are known and despised. It is embarrassing. I thought here in Australia Nigerian migrants were not enough in number to have a bad reputation but, alas, I was mistaken. There are crime gangs here, and now many migration lawyers avoid Nigerian applications. Even the Nigerian business folk doing well here often avoid liaising with Nigerians too much because they need to maintain their reputation with government officials, while their brethren keep wanting them to cut corners and do unethical favours like back home.
One of my former Nigerian staff asked me to fake-marry him to facilitate his residence, and I see several Nigerian agents online advertising how to help someone have fake income in their bank statements. You can acquire a fake passport and fake appearance all in a shabby house in Nigeria. Many people are trafficked through multiple hub cities, whether by plane, boat or motor vehicle, with the full connivance of immigration and border authorities. All these things are known to the embassies and foreign immigration officials. That's why you have people doubting you even at foreign airports.