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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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Chima! Chima o! I hear mummy's voice sounding like she is calling from three blocks away, faint and hollow, or is it just me? I drag myself off my bed from the room that has provided a form of solace and comfort from the world beyond. "Chima, you want me to shout my lungs sore abi! I have been calling you, later you will say you didn't hear". I greeted,...

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