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LIFE'S UPDATE

It's been forever, I know😑. Well, as much as I want to have content here (it is actually important that I have much content here), I really don't want to force this. That's another day's headache though. Let's get to work, I hope you've been well. The month of July is coming to a close, frankly it's TRUE time waits for no one. I remember ending 2018, I wrote goals. I think that no matter how cliche it might be taught as to write goals, knowing what you want to do, and documenting it is the first step towards achieving them.  I wrote goals, and I got into the year troubled, January was filled with tears guys. My dad wasn't okay and he was crying on a steady, I was too😭. When I was younger, I couldn't wait to be an adult, and earn my own money, Nigeria must have been like 😏😏 when I thought like that. Nobody told me growing up meant my own parents were growing older too, older😭. I couldn't leave my parents that way so I stayed back to rea

An open letter to Cousin B

Dear Cousin, How are you? You had your 13th birthday earlier this month, and I feel compelled to write this letter to you. We bear the same  name and our family members say we are similar. I laugh when I hear you try to sound  like Celine Dion when you sing, makes me wonder if I was that amusing at your age. I chuckle whenever I watch that video we made on Christmas eve last year, how I asked you to say thank you to your mom for how much hard work she’s done this last year and you said “I’m grateful to my Parents, especially my dad, for everything.” Maybe it was best to smile, your mom and I, we both knew better. I see you wear my old wigs, eager to look like the stars you see on T.V, that’s also unlike me, I never grew up liking much T.V as you do. Maybe we are similar and maybe we are not, I love you regardless. When you came back from your first term of boarding house, your mom complained how you lost almost everything you took to school, I thought of how to help you handle stuff