This should be the least of your worries, man. Worry about your career, about your health, about your education. Don't twist an ankle worrying about things you can't control. Thunder might strike, the ground might open up, a volcano might erupt: live your life anyway.
I do not understand this obsession with staying young. And precisely because it is invariably focused on limbs; never intellect, spirituality, or wisdom. Just the good old vanity of the skin, which courts superficial validation. Why do you want to stay a slave forever?
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My name is Oluwaseun Shotayo, and I am preparing for the next phase of my life. I graduated with a CGPA of 4.43/5.0 in Animal Breeding and Genetics from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and I finished among the top students in my class.
kobe said his confidence came from knowing he'd outworked everyone in the room before he ever walked into it. changed how i see nerves. if i'm anxious, it's not a feeling problem. it's a preparation problem.
This man just destroyed the whole argument. Anyone still saying Nigeria is economically thriving under Tinubu’s government should pay close attention, he continues to be a disaster for the country.
The soul is not upgraded by books or by thinking or by wanting to be better, the soul is upgraded by pressure that kills everything fake in you. the way fire does. gold is not purified by being admired, it is thrown into heat until everything that is not gold burns away. and what is left is not beautiful because someone made it beautiful, it is beautiful because there is nothing left to lie. war produces poets, peace produces advertisers. collapse produces saints, comfort produces consumers. this is not an opinion, this is history. read it, and the pattern is so blatant it is stupid how anyone misses it. the best human beings you have ever met were made in the worst times, and the emptiest human beings you have ever met were made in the times that should have been the best
That one of the great tragedies of life is the paradox of wisdom and age. As you become wiser about life and the world, you have less time to apply it yourselt. So you try to pass it down, but some things just can't be heard in youth. It only comes through the experience of living. And then the cycle repeats: you remember that someone tried to give you some gems and you didn't listen, so you try to do the same. It's a somewhat cruel time loop of sorts, and I ponder over the design sometimes.
Allow me to add more context to this:
From a very young age, when I got my own space in my parents house, till when I moved out, I started living like this.
I handled everything myself. I cleaned my space, washed my clothes, cooked my meals; I’m actually a good cook—and ran my errands. I was completely self-reliant. If something needed to be done, I did it myself. I don’t ask for help. I enjoyed my own company, and when I started sailing, it intensified the solitude. It made me feel strong and in control.
But here’s the downside: when you get used to doing everything alone, relationship with a woman becomes difficult. Letting a woman into my space felt less like companionship and more like an intrusion of my privacy. I had grown too comfortable being by myself.
My mindset was this: anything you can do for me, I can do for myself. I was overly guarded. Asking for help felt like weakness. Allowing someone to support me made me feel vulnerable. I had to unlearn that. I had to learn how to open up, to share space, to accept help without feeling like I was losing control.
Self-reliance and solitude have their strengths. You’re less likely to be disappointed because you expect little from others. But if you’re not careful, it can isolate you. And once it settles in too deeply, it becomes hard to let anyone close.
these drivers are such idiots. they told police that they were uninjured. all they had to do was say their neck hurts and theyd get a million taxpayer dollars
This app has its faults, but you have no idea how fortunate you are to have found this corner of the internet.
Easy to forget until you speak to people who aren't immersed in it.
Everyday you log on to an ecosystem of being early.