This song Brought tears to my eyes because these words resonated in my soul to the core.
This is for someone here too. Maybe you are at the verge of giving up, please hang in there
Never Ever Give Up!
@DanielRegha Person no fit support you reach 24 hours make you no fuck up this boy ..
Morning you go make sense, night you go contradict yourself
NDLEA need to pick you up for Test and Rehabilitation
Saw this on guy yesterday and I think he needs the exposure. Please retweet and follow him on instagram if you can 🙏🏽🇬🇭
He needs to be seen. A touching story
@carter8f If e easy, do am.
If e simple, come show us
Bring your grace, come our side
Com survive for ghetto.
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"If E Easy, Do Am" by @danfo_hustlers
most people spend their lives unconsciously destroying their own luck while blaming life for not giving them any. Nobody is entirely unlucky.
Luck is largely exposure and proximity. It's putting yourself in enough places, around enough people, and in enough situations that probability eventually has something to work with.
Out of ego, people develop an obsession with control. They want to optimize every move, eliminate every mistake, choose the perfect strategy, and guarantee the outcome before they're willing to act. In doing so, they unknowingly eliminate the very uncertainty that luck requires to exist. when u increase the control, u unwittingly reduce the luck.
And u need luck more than skill. Luck is what fills the gap between two moving variables.
In life, both the target and the one chasing it are moving without any fixed rule or direction. You'll never hit consistently through control alone.
Maximize luck, not control. this is what u need.
Luck doesn't emerge from complete control. It emerges from reality colliding with you in ways you never could have predicted.
u can control your effort. u can control whether you show up. Beyond that, direction is rarely yours to dictate. Wrong trains routinely arrive at the right destination. great careers are built on accidents. Entire lives change because of conversations that were never supposed to happen.
People dramatically overestimate the value of constantly correcting themselves. Every setback becomes a reason to switch strategies, reinvent the plan, or convince themselves they were walking the wrong path all along.
Most of the time, they weren't.
The people who eventually succeed often look almost careless from the outside. They keep knocking on the same door long after everyone else has concluded it won't open. Sometimes it finally opens. Sometimes they knock hard enough that the door breaks instead. Either way, they're going In.
Persistence usually looks irrational until it suddenly looks inevitable.
I don't think there's another way. Not because persistence guarantees success, but because it maximizes the number of opportunities for luck to finally find you. And in the end, luck has always preferred those who stayed in the game long enough for it to matter.
@seyikanbai That "higher education" notebook where you have "Paloma and Diego" on one side then Thierry Henry on the other side.
Only millenias can relate.
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The day a Nigerian father in the UK called the police on his own daughter, people thought he had lost his mind but he hadn’t.
He had simply understood the game before it destroyed his home.
She is 14. Back in Nigeria? Calm. Respectful. No issues.
Even when they first relocated to the UK, she was still that same good girl.
Then suddenly something shifted.
“Shut up,” she told her mother one day, when her mum corrected her.
The mother froze.
Maybe it was a bad mood.
But it didn’t stop there.
If her father spoke, she would stand chest to chest with him, eyes locked, almost daring him.
Like she was waiting.
Waiting for something.
At first, they thought it was teenage phase.
But this one didn’t feel normal.
It felt calculated.
One day, the father asked her to do something simple.
She refused.
She stood right in front of him and said, boldly,
“I’m not doing it.”
And then she waited.
That moment… that silence… that eye contact…
She was hoping he would react.
You know that Nigerian reflex.
That “I will show you I’m your father” reaction.
But her dad did something nobody expected.
He picked up his phone and called the police.
The mother panicked.
“Are you serious?!”
He said calmly,
“If I touch her, they will carry me. Let them carry her instead.”
When the police arrived, he didn’t shout.
He didn’t explain too much.
He just said,
“Please take her.”
In the UK, once a child starts acting out like that, they often süsp3ct m£nt@l health issues.
So the officers said they would take her for evaluation.
The moment she heard “mental health”
Her confidence disappeared.
Immediately.
She started begging.
Crying.“Please, mummy… please, daddy…”
But het father didn’t move.
“Take her,” he repeated.
And they did.
That night, the house was quiet but heavy.
The next day, social services showed up.
They said,
“She’s been crying non-stop. She wants to talk.”
The father said,
“Not yet.”
On the second day, they said
“She hasn’t eaten. She keeps begging.”
Finally, he agreed to see her.
The moment she stepped back into that house,
She didn’t argue.
She didn’t stand tall.
She went straight to the floor.
Kneeing.
Crying.
Begging.
That was when the truth came out.
Her friends in school had told her.
Provoke your parents, they told her.
Make them hit you.
Report them.
The government will take you away, give you a house, money, freedom, iphone with free WiFi.
In her mind, she was about to upgrade her life.
New phone.
Freedom.
Soft life.
But she didn’t know one thing
Not every parent will play the role you scripted for them especially Nigerians.
Her father didn’t react.
He redirected.
And the script, flipped on her.
-Uncle recounts his UK brother’s experience with his daughter.
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This shoe maker/shiner was passing through a car stand and he saw the vehicle of his choice paused and take a closer look at his choice of car and said and prayed 🥹🥹🥹🥹
Ya Allah grant his wish in life be granted 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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A Powerful Message for the North That Cannot Be Ignored.
They want this video gone, but I won’t silence the truth. Why are Northerners, not Southerners, saying this? This is life in the North especially for the poor.
A Note to Self at 55.
Today, I turn 55. At 55, I don’t just count years. I count lessons, battles survived, victories earned, and purpose renewed.
And to everyone else born on this day. Happy Birthday to you too!