Embrace moments, when the past comes to you, so real again.
I remember many times, living all year round without a blink of electricity.
Another flip, I have also lived all month long with full forte of electricity staring at me.
With joy, with my siblings, we've trekked several kilometres, the sun licking our back, to get water.
In the face of 'beware of dogs' at the gates of rich people that have deep wells filled with water, we sometimes escaped with 1 bucket of water for a family of 6.
It's hard to capture these instances with words alone. Sight, sound, smell and imagination will only try.
Vegetables flourished at our backyard because it was a multipurpose field - toilet, garden and market.
Our little cassava farm was a good supplement for an unstable economy.
Palm oil became good solvent for a dry and succulent cocoyam. Sweeeeet :) Yum Yum :)
Dear, I know you've got a more gripping story and that's why I love you. It's the adversity that has made you strong.
You sometimes feel ashamed of your story. It's fine. After all, mess becomes message!
Let me tell you what adversity means.
Ad-versity = you are adding and scripting verses for generations to read and learn from. You are adding and buying into an intangible certificate no university can issue.
If you were 'lucky' to be born with a golden spoon, don't become 'unlucky' so soon by using your golden spoon to stop others from shining.
Whichever spoon, but don't be a great waster. Wasting resources and gifts is a display of poverty of the mind.
In your life, always remember this;
Close the tap while you are brushing to have enough water to use and share with others.
Before ink disappear from earth, write. Don't edit every word, write all the book first, then edit later.
Use the moon rather complain about why the sun isn't shinning so brightly.
Care for others, not when bad things happen only.
Smile, even if all your tooth have fallen off.
#YouAreLimitless! Aaaaaaarrrrggggghhhh :)
Isn't it a great time to be alive and kicking?
Don;t be shy to share your story of pain, success, beauty and shame.
Everything is working together in your favour...