Amife

[𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓪 @elioralux]

A woman on my flight yesterday switched seats with her husband because their toddler wouldn’t stop crying.

The second she sat down alone, she closed her eyes for maybe 30 seconds.

Just resting.

Not sleeping.

When the husband walked past with the kid later, he laughed and said loudly,
“Must be nice to finally get a break from doing nothing.”

A few people chuckled.

She laughed too.

But something about it felt off because for the entire flight she had been:
holding the baby,
packing snacks,
cleaning spills,
walking him down the aisle,
missing her own meal trying to calm him down…

while the husband watched a movie with headphones on.

And honestly I think that’s why so many women are exhausted.

Not because they’re doing everything alone.

But because they’re doing everything while someone else calls it “nothing.”

[Jacoby Lambert @jacobyrlambert]

I can’t explain why this is important to me but date someone who takes your photo without you asking.

[Yetunde Omobolanle✨ @Divayetty1]

Hot take, and this one is for my close friends.

I know some of you haven’t forgotten that I lost my dad. But I also feel like, after a while, people forget to remember. The check-ins reduce. The awareness fades. Life moves on for everyone else, which is fair tbh. It’s not a personal thing so that’s normal.

But whe I decline invites and people ask, “Why aren’t you coming? What happened?” I’m always a bit stunned. Like… take a wild guess? Everything is still fresh. I lost a parent. Someone actually died in my life this year.

It may not feel that deep to you, but it is to me.

Sometimes I’m just not in the mood. Sometimes I don’t have the capacity. And yes, in an ideal world, you’d still be checking in, because grief doesn’t expire (mine isn’t even up to 8 months). 💀

And when people say things like, “You carry grief well,” I honestly don’t know what that means. How exactly am I supposed to carry it? Loudly? Quietly? Performatively?

Just because I’m not always talking about it or posting about it doesn’t mean it’s not heavy. This wasn’t a random loss. This was my dad. A parent. My person.

So, yeah. 🫠

[Martha Ahumuza @MarthaAhumuza]

Your body has always been loyal to you. Even when you called it names, starved it for acceptance or punished it for not looking like someone else’s. Your body is not a problem to be solved. It’s not a delayed project or a failed promise. Your body is not a before or after photo.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

Let me explain to you what these barbaric savages did in Benue state. For those who haven’t seen the video (maybe because it was too traumatic for you).

Let me break it down for you:

According to eyewitnesses;
Around 10:45pm on Friday night,
A group of terrorist animalistic vermins invaded Yelewata village. They divided themselves into two groups:

One group went to the police station and engaged the police in a fire exchange. The aim of this group is to keep the police engaged so the police won’t go into the village to protect the people.

The other group now marched into the village and started going from house to house with petrol and weapons. They sliced and matcheted people then doused them with petrol and burnt them to ashes. They this to almost a 100 houses and killed over 200 people in this manner. This was done for 3hours from 11pm to 2am. The only reason the massacre was not far worse and did not go on for longer was the brave youths in the village who repelled and resisted these barbaric inhuman animals.

Children. Women. Men. Grandmothers.
Attacked in their sleep. Sliced like animals. Burnt to unrecognisable ashes. It was a brutal carnage and a violent bloodbath.

This is what happened to the Benue people. And for 48 hours, the unfortunate incompetent nincompoop president of Nigeria said absolutely nothing until there was collective national outrage online led largely by many of us here.

The Pope spoke before that fool in Aso Rock said anything. A lawmaker in the USA tweeted about the matter before Tinubu said anything. VDM flew to Benue and till now, Tinubu has not yet visited.

What kind of country with a heartless brainless soulless president is this? And when he finally speaks on the matter, he tells the governor to organise “dialogue and reconciliation”????

Dialogue and reconciliation with who?
How do you reconcile with faceless terrorist landgrabbers and godless verminous savages who invade your land at night slicin your throat in your sleep and burning you to crumbling ashes? How do you reconcile with that?

If you have no idea what happened in Benue state, this is actually the story of it as narrated by eye witnesses in the video.

I have no words but tears for Benue.
Please 🙏🏿 I beg you all let us lend our voice for Benue. Let us all speak up for them.

The media is corrupt and compromised.
The politicians are nonchalant and simply don’t care. The religious elite are not bothered as long as it doesn’t affect their tithes. That useless shameless organisation called CAN (of worms) has said absolutely nothing since yesterday. My point in all of this is that Benue has nobody to speak for them or fight for them apart from us.

If we don’t speak, that state will be wiped out. I beg you all again please 🙏🏿 let us lend our voice for Benue. Let us all speak up for them.

Today it is Benue. Tomorrow it may be you.
Please share this tweet everywhere. Use the hashtag. Create awareness. Please 🙏🏿
#EndBenueGenocide #EndBenueGenocide

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Pratik Joshi had been living in London for six years. A software professional, he’d long dreamed of building a life abroad for his wife and three young children, who stayed back in India.

After years of waiting for due clearances the dream was finally coming true. Just two days ago, his wife, Dr. Komi Vyas, a renowned doctor in Udaipur, resigned from her job. The bags were packed, goodbyes said, the future within reach.

This morning, the family of five, filled with hope and excitement, boarded Air India flight 171 to London. They clicked a selfie. Sent it to relatives. A one-way journey to a new life. But they never made it. The plane crashed. No one survived.

In a matter of moments, a lifetime of dreams turned to ash. A brutal reminder, life is terrifyingly fragile. Everything you build, everything you hope for, everything you love, it all hangs by a thread. So while you can, live, love, and don’t wait for happiness to start tomorrow.

[Skylar ✨ @Skylar_Lorena]

Funny how the busiest people always reply fastest. Asked my mentor and she said, letting things linger means you'll have a backlog to revisit, and delaying communication also holds up other people's work, which means efficiency is compromised. I've seen it. I believe it 🙂

[blue @bluewmist]

i'm 28. Instead of regretting that I can't wake up to age 18 again, I pretend to myself that I'm 90 and I've woken up at age 28 again, and that I get to magically, wonderfully have the next 62 years again.

[mayra rae 💐 @buneeriee]

this is how God must feel when he sees us scrolling on our phones

[Amife @theamife]

Anyways, taking vendors into prayer before I ever give them a cent of my money because at this point, I don’t know how to anticipate which ones would let you down. I paid a whopping 65k for an 8inchcake only to be sad about my birthday cake and not even be able to get a photo

[Amife @theamife]

Can’t believe this is my first tweet but if it’ll save anyone else from ever using @livvystwist service then good enough for me. (Explanation within the images)

[Amife @theamife]

Accepting the whole mess that this was, I thought the worst part was over until we cut into the cake the next day and it was so dry!!! That was the absolute last thing I could have imagined. I had been eager to use this brand for a whole year and what a disappointment they were

[Amife @theamife]

After so much back and forth, changing the color to white, it being changed back to green without my say-so, her cutting the call on me while trying to resolve this, (literally an hour before my photoshoot), this was the final cake sent to me. Still not the color I requested

[Amife @theamife]

Still not the color I wanted, and definitely not looking as good as I had dreamed. I thought the worst part was over until we cut into the cake the next day and it was so dry!!! That was the last thing I could have imagined

[Amife @theamife]

After so much back and forth, changing the color to white, it being changed back to green without my say-so, her cutting the call on me while trying to resolve this, (literally an hour before my photoshoot), this was the final cake sent to me.

[PYPER🍒 @pyperxox]

wearing no bra and oversized clothes is self care at it’s finest

[Amife @theamife]

@shangytee When did you leave me to become a football fan Tayo 😭

[Jazyn @jazyn5]

She a 10 but all she do is sleep and overthink