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15 Oct

Small Reminders & Big Announcements

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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.

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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…

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…

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…

08 Aug

Dear Self, You’re afraid of your own body…

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Hello younger self, You’re growing up with your Uncle and his wife. They have raised you since you were three years old. Treasure them, for they will eventually become the mum and dad you always wanted. You’re always seeking love and affection from your own parents but unfortunately that hasn’t yet happened. Nor will it. Your parents, the ones who brought you into this world, are hard and non affectionate. I know they shout a lot at you. I know they’re tough. I know that affects you, because you don’t understand why they’re always so angry with you. And it’s…

01 Aug

Dear Self…Stop whining and complaining!

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Dear Younger Me; The journey you are about to embark on is called life(obulamu). Just like any other journey; there is a starting point, an ending point and what lies in between the two points. Well I would like to tell you that how you start off in life does not really matter but the real deal is how you live in between those two points (the start of your life and the end of it.) A smooth sail through is probably what you’re wishing for but nope, that’s definitely not what you’re going to get. Honey, life will throw…

31 Jul

Dear Self, take OFF those rose colored glasses…

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Dear self… Not everything is as it seems. “Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” ― George R.R. Martin. I grew up looking at the world through rose colored glasses. To me the world was just black and white; simple as ABC, as long as my mommy, daddy and sister were around. My world revolved around those three people. In my eyes, even with the family problems we encountered over time, we were still perfect. My parents were still together which the jackpot was for me because some of my friends talked about their parents’ separation and their step siblings. I always felt…

05 Apr

Lockdown Requests…

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The whole world is facing a crisis. There is an inescapable sense of anxiety, stress, and uncertainty. We’re living in a time that will make history but we’re living in it feeling helpless. In moments of such fear, we are forgetting about connection, compassion and community. We might all be facing the same thing but we are being affected by it differently. This is my humble request. That we choose compassion. For some people, life was already tough before the pandemic. There are people who were fighting illnesses, life threatening disease, struggling with basic needs, burying loved ones, trying to…

26 Mar

Stuck In An Ocean of Confusion…

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In the twenty three years I've been here, I have never seen anything like this. The whole world is in a place of uncertainty. We are outwardly directed and yet inwardly confused. We are scared, we are afraid, we are confused and in the midst of confusion, it’s hard to remain calm and it’s hard to be kind. It’s hard to remain happy when you’re inwardly confused. It's hard to see the good when the world around you is falling into chaos. When things get tough, it’s common for us to only be aware of our flaws. This virus...it does…

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