Some people view break-ups like they are the end of the world. Friends console you as you mope around for a good three to four months, but everything isn’t so bad about cutting your losses and calling it quits. Here’s ‘Four Good Things About Break-Ups’: 1. It’s a Relief You ever break up with someone, […]
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It was a Saturday afternoon in long beach, Mombasa. It has become my routine before I head back home always to relax while enjoying the beautiful view. It was late in the evening when I noticed young man asking people around for change. I was feeling philanthropic, so I reached out to my pocket for
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Love is simple, yet complicated. Most youths cannot bring themselves to differentiate between attraction, pure lust and emotional blackmail. Whatever works for them they call it their way of loving. It’s the kind of love that is selfish and usually leaves the couple damaged when they go separate ways. In this age, compromise, especially in
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I am 23 years old. For a lady this is a huge number and it says to me, ‘you have no time to waste.’ I don’t know if it’s saying the same thing to other women, but I know time is going fast for me. They say (I don’t know who said it first but
Allowing yourself to heal, confronting the doubt and realizing that the decision you made was the right one is the ultimate gift from a breakup. Truth is things will be pretty difficult after a break up. The rains will hit you so hard that you will forget the sight of the sun. It’s like hitting
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Let me tell you something, depression is far worse than what most people think of it. It all begins with the feeling of absence and fear. First you feel lonely, then you become afraid that you’ll always be lonely. Then you hate the world and people, then you begin hating yourself. And it gets worse.
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If only we handled ourselves like how we handle our phones or laptops, then I believe some of us would be at a better place at the moment. If only we scrolled through our lives like how we scroll through our feeds of social media on our phones… then I believe we will commit less
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I stopped thinking about what people think of me. What’s the point anyway, of thinking about what others think? Because for sure it’s harmless, unless you think it’s not- while you let your perceptions, thus actions, be swept by the waves of their thoughts as they possess you. Those thoughts of other people, that you
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There are people who think relationships are more about sex and involve dependency. And that life is all about the extent of freedom to unruly behavior. There are people who think relationships are all about honesty and responsibility. And that life is all about the extent of how far they are willing to go in
Gandhi once said, “be the change you want to see in the world.” And that means you have to work with what you have now. It means you start right now, here, in the present moment. You don’t have to wait for the sun to set and rise again, or when you get a job,
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