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“Behold, old things are become new”
I have become almost unrecognisable to most people. They use to know someone quiet, easygoing, agreeable, and maybe cutely naive. That version of me was real however, the last 3 years was a roller coaster. Hardship became my teacher, pain, my education, and somewhere along that journey, I found parts of me that have always… Continue reading
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Captain Masifa.
I am an incredibly difficult yet the simplest person there is; I don’t need anyone to tell me that. I don’t like people, and the feeling is very mutual. In fact, when I was about to get married, people who knew me personally actually felt sorry for Captain. The one question they kept asking was,… Continue reading
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I AM A FAILURE
I often tell people that I am a failure in life, but I’ve never quite found the right words to explain what I truly mean. Hopefully, this will. My productivity falls far off the scale of my abilities. To be clear, I do not have unrealistic expectations of myself and I do not put undue… Continue reading
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As a kid, I drank from this very stream. The water smelled strongly cow piss. In fact, during dry seasons, we had to dig through the sand to reach water level deep down. Brown water, filled with debris and things no human should survive on. Yet we drank it anyways. I often say that I… Continue reading
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“Know Thyself”
If I open my wardrobe and realise, I don’t have a brand new plain white or black t-shirt sitting there, unused, untouched, just existing, I can have a full-blown panic attack. There’s something about plain t-shirts that I cannot explain, it’s almost spiritual. The feeling when I wear a brand new fitted t-shirt is unmatched.… Continue reading
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My First IELTS Reading Tutorial
I uploaded my very first YouTube video today, an IELTS Reading module tutorial. On the first take, I thought I’d recorded an absolute masterpiece. I finished, stretched, smiled. Few minutes later, I sat down to start editing only to realise I never saved the video. I went crazy, spent a whole day looking for it,… Continue reading
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THE COST OF SELF AWARENESS
I live by very simple principles. Those closest to me me know one of these to be how I won’t stop talking about this ‘unwritten social contract’. To me, we all have an obligation in every human relationship. Not contractual one, but I genuinely believe that if our paths cross, even for a moment, we… Continue reading
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CONFORMITY SUFFOCATES ME
My whole life, I learnt to follow the norm, do everything like everyone else was doing, that is the standard, even when some things made absolutely no sense to me. It has made me question my own knowledge, my self-esteem, my abilities, everything. On August 2, 2024, after years of self-doubt, I was diagnosed. Since… Continue reading
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I started writing a song about this time last year. I never was able to summon the motivation to finish it. Every time l manage to sit down to write, l’d cancel almost everything l’d written before and start all over because the previous one would suddenly seem lame to me. 1 kept updating the… Continue reading
DIVERGENT CORNER 