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In the words of PIE, “David had resume.” Yes, it sounds funny but think about it well. Oga was not just allowed to enter the battlefield to fight a giant based on vibes or “I just feel like I can do it.” When he stood before Saul, he said, “Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.” That was not empty confidence, it was experience speaking. David had history.  He did not just say, “Trust me.” He said, “I have done hard things before.” If we bring it to real life statistics, killing a bear or a lion with bare hands is almost impossible. The survival rate of a human in an unarmed fight with a bear is almost zero. Most people who survive bear attacks survive because the bear eventually stops, not because they overpowered it. It had to be a collaboration between divine intervention and uncommon boldness. God showed up, yes. But David also showed up. And that part is importa...

As a society, we live off half phrases like; “Jack of all trades, master of none.” "The customer is always responsible right"  Where the full phrase infact is “Jack of all trades, master of none is oftentimes better than a master of one,” and "The customer is always right in relation to their taste" See how meaning changes when context is restored? Now imagine running with the first half phrase, you see the error? That's what happens to when we take advice from a single story, its essence is lost.  So maybe the lesson is not just to take things at surface level,  Maybe the lesson is “understand the full story before you build your life on it.” Dearest reader, be careful of the stories you swallow whole. Ask questions, seek context and do not let half truths drive full decisions. Life is too layered to take things at surface level. Get the full gist. @favvy_Okwans🖤.

There’s this park in school that is always surprisingly clean. Like, neat neat. Every single time and I used to wonder how it manages to maintain that state with the several cars that park there daily. Students rushing in and out, tyres dragging sand, pure chaos sometimes. Yet the place will just be shining like it has personal bodyguards. Only for me to pass there yesterday because I had a Saturday class and guess what? I saw people cleaning it. Actual human beings, sweeping, arranging, packing dirt. Doing the work. It felt odd at first. Like I had just caught the park in a vulnerable moment. And suddenly everything made sense. I now feel silly for lowkey thinking it was magic. The way it always maintained that clean state every time I saw it. As if cleanliness just “happened” as if order just stayed. But seeing the process explained the result, and it made me think, nothing is magic. Even magic is a result of unseen or invisible actions. There is always something happenin...

There comes a time in one’s life when you come to the shocking realisation that nobody is coming to save you. And the funny thing is, you have always known this. It has always been somewhere in your head as a fact. But it was theoretical. Just something you could quote and nod to. Then life shows you a shade and you’re like “damn” because see how quickly that theory is turning into reality. Life happens. Every single day. Good days. Bad days. Confusing days. Days you want to disappear small. And the crazy thing is, no matter how bad it gets, you will survive. Somehow, you always do. That issue you are stressing over right now? You will get past it. You will look back one day and almost laugh at how it kept you up at night. And somehow, in the very dramatic way life works, you might even land yourself in a much messier mess. Because growth does not retire. It keeps stretching you. Like the words I used to end my fresher’s welcome spoken word piece, “Growth is not comfortable, dreams do ...

“All Christians are believers but not all believers are Christians.” ~ X I read somewhere that being a believer is accepting Christ, believing in what He did on the cross, and confessing with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. The Bible even says in Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. But being a Christian goes beyond that. Christian, as the name implies, means Christlike. It means looking like Him, sounding like Him, loving like Him, living like Him. These terms are often used interchangeably. We assume that once someone believes in Christ, the person automatically becomes Christlike. And yes, believing comes first. You cannot become like someone you do not believe in. But they are not exactly the same thing. One is the beginning. The other is the journey. We were taught in Sunday school that the believers in the Bible were first called Christians in Antioch. That says a lot if w...

Gist o’clock. I had a photoshoot today and as a result I had a full blown facebeat. And let me tell you, I was deeply intrigued by the whole process. What really stood out to me was how the makeup artist literally turned my face into something that looked like it belonged in a horror movie at first. I’m not even exaggerating. The layers were plenty, the colors were loud. At some point I was just sitting there thinking, “Ma, where exactly are we going with this?” It looked chaotic, like too much  But I kept quiet and watched. And then, somewhere between the final blend and the setting spray, magic happened. Everything came together. The same layers that looked confusing suddenly made sense. The same colors that felt excessive started complementing each other.  That was when it hit me. Sometimes the process looks messy. Sometimes it feels like too much is happening at once. Too many layers. Too many pressures. Too many things you cannot explain. It may even look like...