Freedom

Nothing is for free not even in freetown
Your thoughts
your words and
your actions
are all strings of fate connected to your soul
For every consequences must you bear

Freedom is not about doing as you like
Freedom is about doing what is right
Freedom is  a religion
Freedom should be your way of Life

Only then are you free from all guilt indeed

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The truth about the TRUTH

The truth is
we know the truth
but sometimes
we are too afraid to
live the truth

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Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe

Blogger's Remarks.....

For most of us, daring to dream could only ever be the sweetest song the river bird never sang, though it's melodies are soothing as an embracing fragrance, we barely get ahold of such scented visuals of the paranormal and the tricks it plays on us. But go figure, all that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream..................Princeton Ojobor

More quotes by Poe;

• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before 

•  We loved with a love that was more than love. 

• Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" 

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. 

• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. 

• All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. 

• The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. 

• In her sepulcher there by the sea — In her tomb by the sounding sea. 

• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? 

• Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

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You don't need a new year, you need discipline

It's that time of year again when people promise themselves and others that they'll turn a new leaf and do this and that differently come the new year. But the sad part is: most of these people have said the same thing for a few years in a row and nothing has changed.

• They didn't write that book they said they would, 
• they're still obese(too lazy to stick to a diet or exercise regularly), 
• they haven't gotten that car and/or house they said they would get. 

The list is practically endless. They go on this endless loop of broken promises and a wasted 52 weeks. Then at the end of the current year, well, you guessed it, they make the same resolution and the cycle continues.

Well, the hard truth is: You need discipline, not a new year or a new month or a new week or even a Monday. Just get your lazy ass up and do it!

Some tips

1. Make a public commitment: When you make a promise to yourself, it's relatively easier to break it than one made to someone else; and it is even harder to break a promise made to more than one person. Making a public commitment is an awesome way to make yourself accountable to persons other than yourself.
2. Work towards the goal with other people: When trying to accomplish something alone, it's easy to get discouraged and lose motivation. But when in a group, the other members can serve as a source of motivation when you're down and vice versa. 
3. Set realistic goals: Don't go saying things like:
   I want to build a company from scratch, I want it to be bigger than Tesla and I want to accomplish this in 1 month. I mean, c'mon, who are we kidding here? 
4. If a goal seems too large, break it into smaller sub-goals: Aiming to loose 100 pounds might seem like a lot; but, aiming to loose 10 pounds a week sounds a lot easier, yh? 
5. State your goals explicitly.

Discipline isn't easy, but, if we want to become better versions of ourselves, we need it. 

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Balancing what you want with what is expected of you

I'm going to make the wild guess that you are an African child; the specificity of the country is not important. So, that being said, I assume you can relate with the "My son is studying *whatever prestigious course*, I'm so proud of him/her"; while the child is like: "mehn, I just want to write music" or something of the sort. This post is going to be the beginning of my personal chronicles regarding how I got to studying Industrial Mathematics while all I want to do is code.
I'm going to be a bit personal sometimes, so, just bear with me. Before we get started, lemme give you some background.

I'm your regular teenage guy who just wants to pursue his dreams and doing so is quite complicated. I'll explain later. Anyways, I have a love for coding (whether it be creating a web app, a website, a native app), but my parents are of the opinion that I should have something more "concrete" first; then I can do whatever I want with my life. So, this is my journey with them and how I have been managing to cope.

The Beginning

It all started when I decided to be a science student; bear in mind that parents were commercial and art students. They were somewhat elated, I could tell; I thought they were genuinely happy for me and maybe they were, but with time it turned out that they had other plans: they wanted me to be a medical doctor. Eish, me? Medical doctor? Nah, that shit wasn't for me. I already had a crush and it was everything computers. I couldn't just cheat on myself. So, the battle began.

Convincing them

Trust me, this wasn't easy. Finding a middle ground felt like an impossible task; but with time, we did come to an understanding. I was to read Chemical Engineering. I wasn't overly happy, but at least I wasn't reading medicine. While doing this, I was writing codes by the side, so it turned out I was cheating on Chemical Engineering... well, I mean, why not? It was basically forced on me.

Balancing both

This is where the pressure began mounting, a lot of times, I would be faced with the choice of either doing assignments or reading about some new framework. So, this is what I did:

• Compartmentalize: Separate your passion from whatever it is you are doing to just please your parents/guardians. When you are composing that song or designing that dress, hide every textbook and note related to academics (except if it is a source of inspiration). When you are doing that 10-page essay, try not to wander; keep your focus till you get it done, then you can go back to your one true love.
• Plan your time: You have to be an awesome time manager if you are going to balance both of these things. There are 24 hours in a day, share them in a way that you have ample time for both your passion and your academics(that is in a case where both are not one and the same thing). This might be the hardest thing to do, but it the most important. 

So, there it is guys, I know it's quite skeletal but, I just needed to vent and my thoughts are not really coherent when I'm venting; so, I hope I have been able to tell my story to an extent. I'll continue in future posts. 

Feel free to tell me what you think in the comments section below.

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LOVE AND ITS RESTRICTIONS

   Seriously, this love thing is tiring. Take it from a girl who has had two heartbreaks, and just summoned the courage to love again.

   Right from when i could understand what a relationship between the opposite sex is, i have been swamped with a lot of do's and don'ts. What a Lady should do and shouldn't do when dating. Why should I wait for him to call me first when its 4pm and i haven't heard from him all day and I am partly dying to hear his voice and partly worried, that something may have gone wrong? They say "that's the way its supposed to be, he is the guy and he should do the calling or most of it". Why can't i buy him a gift at random? They say "If you give him too much gifts, he will know you are into him". But isn't that the point?! To show that I'm into him. Then they say, "don't call him too much o, it will just look like you are begging for attention, don't go cooking for him o, tell him to take you out to an eatery, don't go all 'Miss Independent' on him, let him foot almost all your bills, don't show too much sign of affection, let it be that he is the lucky one to have landed you, you are doing him a favour being his girlfriend."
So much limitations, is love not supposed to come naturally? how can i say i love you and be contemplating whether to call you or not when i know i feel the need to talk to you and have to wait for you to call because "that's the way its supposed to be", why can't i love with the whole of my heart without expressing reservations? Why can't i love without thinking that i am breaking an unwritten girl code and loving too much? Why can't i just be free to love how i want?!

   Then there is this thing with guys, on a second thought, guys and girls alike, "I want someone that will love me for who i am, that will be a friend and a partner, someone who will be so in love with me that i will be the center of his/her universe" they say and there the person is in plain sight giving all the love He/She has to offer and they run away from it all because they think its too good to be true, the case of unrequited love being another story entirely.
I feel like i'm spinning off the topic here, forgive me, *sighs, i'm just, tired, worked up and angry. You know what? I'm still gonna love the way i know how to, giving my all, every inch of me, and i do hope to find someone who will love me as much as i do him before i get totally drained.

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The Man With The Hoe by Edwin Markham

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans 
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, 
The emptiness of ages in his face, 
And on his back the burden of the world. 
Who made him dead to rapture and despair, 
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes. 
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? 
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? 
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? 
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? 
Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave 
To have dominion over sea and land; 
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; 
To feel the passion of Eternity? 
Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns 
And marked their ways upon the ancient deep? 
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf 
There is no shape more terrible than this 
More tongued with censure of the world’s blind greed 
More filled with signs and portents for the soul  
More fraught with menace to the universe. 
What gulfs between him and the seraphim! 
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him 
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? 
What the long reaches of the peaks of song, 
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose? 
Through this dread shape the suffering ages look; 
Time’s tragedy is in the aching stoop; 
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed, 
Plundered, profaned, and disinherited, 
Cries protest to the Powers that made the world. 
A protest that is also a prophecy.
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands, 
Is this the handiwork you give to God, 
This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched? 
How will you ever straighten up this shape; 
Touch it again with immortality; 
Give back the upward looking and the light; 
Rebuild in it the music and the dream, 
Make right the immemorial infamies, 
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes? 
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands 
How will the Future reckon with this Man? 
How answer his brute question in that hour 
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores? 
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings  
With those who shaped him to the thing he is  
When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world. 
After the silence of the centuries?

Inspired by the painting L’homme à la houe by Jean-François Millet.

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