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10 Dec

A Call For Forgiveness…

Naks0 CommentsPockets of Peace

One of the most important lessons I learned this year was the liberating power of forgiveness. The year is ending. A new dawn is upon us and yet our hearts still bears the marks left upon it by people closest to us. Marks we can easily erase, if only we make the decision to forgive. We ask the good Lord everyday to forgive us of our sins and wipe our slate clean. We get up from our knees with such light heartedness because we know in that moment that all is forgiven. Every day we fall back onto our knees in…

01 Dec

What We Need To Remember on World AIDS Day.

Naks0 CommentsLiving

World AIDS day is celebrated on December 1 every year since 1988. There are few things I felt like we should collectively remind ourselves today. First, IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT. HIV isn’t some kind of karmic punishment. It is a virus that is communicable and therefore travels between people. Certain types of activities may increase your risks, but these still don’t make you “responsible” for being sick. We wouldn’t blame a diabetic for their diabetes. ITS NOT ALWAYS ABOUT THE SYMPTOMS. Being HIV positive today doesn’t look like the horrible AIDS deaths that have been so heavily imprinted in…

16 Nov

Dear Self…You Will Find Home.

C256 Member0 CommentsLetters To Self, Living

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!…

05 Nov

Dear Self, Let’s Dive Into The Story…

C256 Member0 CommentsLetters To Self

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.

C256 Member0 CommentsLetters To Self

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…

15 Oct

Small Reminders & Big Announcements

Naks0 CommentsLiving

Been a minute yeah? But guess what? I’m back with very good news!!! Ahhhhh (mega screams) I am so excited!!!! But first, small reminders; I came across some soul inspiring beauty that I wanted to share. I hope you listen to it everyday! I hope you remind yourself of these things everyday. Then…. DRUM ROLL!!!!! Big Big announcement!!! The Conversations 256 has a new home! It’s here! It’s finally here! Thank you so much for waiting and being patient with me. I stopped posting like three months ago because I was building a wonderful home for us from scratch by…

03 Oct

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

C256 Member0 CommentsLetters To Self

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…

C256 Member0 CommentsLetters To Self

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…

C256 Member0 CommentsLetters To Self

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…

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