I used to think I had to do more, go above and beyond, put in extra efforts just to show I am worth it. While this may still be a valid reality in some facets of life, it is completely off the grids when speaking of friendships. If someone had…

If the whale hadn’t seen the eagle, it would have concluded that life started and ended in the ocean. And if the snail never met the monkey, it would have thought it ridiculous to swing from tree to tree. This is the same for us as humans. Naturally, we have…

She’s scared. She’s scared because she knows that if Karma is real, raising a teenager someday, might be the start of her demise. She might appear looking as calm as a lamb now but you could have seen her 10 years ago. Those who knew her would tell you she…

The stage scares me. And while it stands as a symbol of authority and knowledge to many, it looks to me, like a platform for scrutiny. I’ll explain. One uneventful evening, I did something everyone around me right now would have been shocked to witness. No, I didn’t get wasted…

Too beautiful not to share…. I get embarrassed a lot, and for the slightest, stupidest things too. I get embarrassed when I cross the road, when I wait for a bus, when I have to raise my voice, repeat myself, when I’m startled. I get really embarrassed too when I…

It’s true. I started writing full time and I somehow feel I’ve lost my mojo. I warn you dearly that this is about to be a wobbly read. While you’re trying to make sense of one idea, that flies right off the window to make space for another, but in…

We are Probably Intersecting Circles It’s one thing to crave personal space, it’s another to be antisocial. (MWC Space) There’s a reason for everything, I believe. And there’s a possibility of most things, one being that humans cannot function without a community and another being that humans can function alone…

Dear Benin…. When I think of Benin, I think of her. How does nostalgia hit you? Do you feel that punch in the gut or does it come as a soft graze like the wind on your shoulders? In thinking about Benin, intermittently, I have it both ways. I could…

If my university days are played on a screen before my eyes, I would cringe from the start to the middle because heaven knows I wouldn’t be able to complete watching it, let alone re-live it. I write “worst” with trepidation because I’m not done convincing myself that my five…