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16 Nov

Dear Self…You Will Find Home.

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Dear self, You are young, And people just see you as someone who is there to depend on them. Some don't even have hope that you will amount to anything in this world. They treat you as they like. You clean their house while their kids look on, When visitors come you are never introduced as their own You are never even seen in public at all. Your role is to carry out the heavy activities around the house because that is all they see you as; a house help. And all you see is a house not a home!…

10 Nov

Dear Self…Just Breathe.

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Dear Self, You know how you sat around the kitchen table last night with your Mum, sister and brother and prayed for your father to have a car accident and die? Well, I want to tell you that, number one; it was an understandable and forgivable prayer under the circumstances. And two, you will one day be grateful that he lived. Yes, I know he abuses you, your siblings and your mother. You feel as though you are in the middle of a never-ending and unbearable nightmare, atop a cruel merry-go-round from which you can never alight. Utterly powerless…

05 Nov

Dear Self, Let’s Dive Into The Story…

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Self, Has it ever crossed your mind that we are more of what’s inside of us than what we show on the outside? Often times you placed yourself in a position of lacking so that the person that is in need could be happy with you, not because you wanted validation from them but because you thought that their happiness made you complete without realising that it instead, made you feel empty. By empty I do not mean sad, by empty I do not mean needy, by empty I do not mean lacking, But it was like digging a void…

05 Nov

Dear Self…Don’t Poison That Tea.

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Dear Self (it sounds as odd to me as it does to you but I very well can’t call you by our name), The other day a friend of mine (he is yet to be yours) told me I’m as secretive as the CIA but I prefer to think of myself as reserved, just as you are but those are tales for another day... What can I tell you? And what can I leave out? We (you and I) have always been the kind to say more in what’s left unsaid. I know you want to ask me if we…

03 Oct

Dear Self, This Is What I Know To Be True.

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Dear Self, You are young, with all your best years ahead of you. I write to share with you some truths about life(the journey before you) which should become your guiding knowledge, that you may walk steadfast among the vast majority of your peers, exuding more maturity at all times before many. Firstly; understand your composition. Where there is a body, young and beautiful, deserving of all good things, there's a soul and a spirit. When you are investing, invest in all three, giving special attention to the spirit, for the things of the body are temporal but the Spiritual…

28 Sep

Dear Self…Brace Yourself.

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Dear E, Yeah! This comes as a surprise to you doesn’t it? I know your probably thinking what the h*! Because you think we don't have the confidence to write but oh well, Buckle up! Cause regardless of how out of the blue this seems, it’s happening I see your bleeding heart. I feel your confusion. You’re young and in your world, the people you love and the ones you call friends shouldn’t stab you in the back. But they do. And they will...continuously. But you know what? I say LET THEM! Know what else I say? Open up and…

22 Sep

Dear Beautiful Dark skinned Queen…

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Dear 15 year old Portia, Beautiful Dark skinned Queen, I purposefully use those words; beautiful and dark skinned, because I know you think that those two could never be used together. But they can. I know you don’t believe that at the moment, because in the world you’re in, dark skin hasn’t yet become a like-able trend... Comments like... “...being dark skinned is for boys...” “Wow...You’re pretty for a dark girl” “Imagine how more stunning you’d be if you were lighter...” ...are all you hear. You never see women with your skin tone being celebrated. You don’t see dark skinned…

12 Sep

Dear Self, Gather Your Broken Pieces…

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Young One, I know you often look in the mirror and wonder who you are. But who you are comes in waves and just as quickly, you are left wondering once more “Who Am I?” You wonder at your inability to fit in where your siblings blossomed. You wonder at why you prefer the still and quiet yet almost everyone around you enjoys the exact opposite. You question your taste in music, in clothes, in movies. You wonder why you love to dance but don’t find as much pleasure as your peers in dancing to the tune of the male…

11 Sep

Meet Evey: TheC256Community

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Evelyn is the sister I never had and the best friend I chose over a decade ago. She’s brilliant, hardworking and a boss!! Heard of Evelyn Apartments? Yes, that’s her!Enough of blowing Evey’s trumpet (P.S, she is a genius farmer too! And the best big sissy to her elder siblings!) Okay, I’m done! Listen in as Evey shares a few words about the C256.Everyday I will be sharing with you different voices from our Community. The C256 Podcast officially launched on the 1st of August. Hosted by Naks. You can follow theC256 on all platforms.

23 Aug

Dear Self, You are the Future.

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Dear Self, The future looks good, but that did not just happen, you are the future. The choices you made, the sacrifices you made, the happy times you lived for yourself and sometimes by yourself, the desperate and angry times which seemed unending ended and now you have new ones, but with unending knowledge on how to overcome them. Your heart, mind, body and soul are in sync now like never before. The present does not remember you much until the memory is jogged by a conversation which alludes to you, majorly because the answers to the present are in…

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