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G is for Gift!
Today, I am taking you down memory lane. Once upon a time, in the year 2009, I was sitting on a table in a tailor’s shop prepping for my second paper in English with my friends. That was my second time taking the paper because in my final year in secondary school, I was ill…
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F is for Film 🎦
Can I call a 3 minutes video a film? My answer is a resounding yes! Yh yh yh, don’t come at me! I am a big star and I am blooming.😂 This film was shot by a brilliant London-based film director of Ghanaian heritage. Her aim? To create a series of video portraits that celebrate…
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E is for Embrace
When you need to feel loved, I hope you embrace those times as natural and not as a weakness. I hope you have safe spaces to receive love without shame, fear, and being made unworthy. I hope you embrace your bad decisions and take accountability for your actions. Accept it and move forward with new…
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D is for Die
This is a bleak and confusing post but do know that this is entirely my thoughts about death. I probably think about death more often than others. The number of times I have fallen into the YouTube rabbit hole of death, suicide, cremation, burial, and whatnot is a shameful amount of time. Why do I…
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C is for Choices
Sometimes we choose things, and sometimes things choose us! The colour of my skin The country of my origin My name and my heritage Of these, I did not get to choose any. But then there is life, and it throws at us so many choices every day. I can say that we are constantly…
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B is for Breathe
Breathe in. Breathe out! Breathe in. Breathe out! Breathe in. Breathe out! Everything is going to work out well. I know most times our brains jump straight to negative thinking in difficult situations. Maybe as people, we are hard-wired to just go there. Mainly because it is easier to fall into such a loop, because…
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A is for Anxiety
My biggest question right now: How did I manage to get through school with all the exam stress only to get a job and sending emails is where I crack? I want a refund! There is something about clicking the send button that makes me want to read the email 85783 times. It doesn’t just…
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M is for Makeup 💄
I was at a wedding recently, and there was this gentleman not sitting far from me, talking passionately about how these modern girls have lost touch with themselves. And why was he going on and on about his ranting? Because from the bride to the bridesmaid and even to the female guests present, let me…
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Self Care
Growing up has made me learn that life doesn’t get any more leisurely. I laugh at my younger self, thinking school life was hard. As I grow older, I have become more resilient, more thick-skinned I mean, what other options were there. Otherwise, this life will break you. I tend to talk to myself a…