![Groking your life makes you more you. A Year To Grok Dick David's Living Eulogy [On Being 28]](https://pawns.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Groking-your-life-makes-you-more-you.-A-Year-To-Grok-Dick-Davids-Living-Eulogy-On-Being-28.jpg "A Year To Grok: Dick David's Living Eulogy [On Being 28] 1")
This felt like the fastest year of my life so far. It genuinely felt like this was still part of last year. At a point, I couldn’t tell what happened this year from what happened last year.
While my last year’s eulogy ended in what felt like a divine script, this year felt like a violent ripping apart of that script by indifferent reality.
The “reality” of many people is hunger, joblessness, and loneliness, just to name a few. But, in reality, we have more food on earth than we can consume, entire industries with opportunities are emerging every day, and there have never been this many people on the surface of the planet, ever.
So, why do the facts conflict with many people’s reality?
As you go through life, you will experience, gain, and lose many things. You will also be seen, addressed, and treated in many ways.
And while all these can lead you to see yourself in different ways, often bending to the whims and manipulation of the world, when you take charge of your identity, you become unshakable.
Saying “No” doesn’t make you unkind; it makes you compassionate (to your own needs).. It proves that you respect your time and energy.
The truth is, every time you say yes to something you dislike, you’re saying no to yourself.
When you learn to say no without guilt, you’re choosing to honour your needs and create space for what really matters.
In 2014, a young boy stared at his JAMB result: 210. It wasn’t enough to study Medicine at his dream university. And for most people, that would have been the end of the story. But for Nwankwo Henry Eziefule, it was just the beginning. What follows is Henry’s story — a sincere, detailed account of what it really took to get the UK Commonwealth Scholarship, in his own words.
When people talk about the objectification of women, the finger almost always points at men. But if you actually look around, especially online, you observe something seemingly contradictory.
In the messy space of real life, values like loyalty to family, respect for elders, devotion to faith, ethnic solidarity, and communal responsibility sometimes conflict with moral codes like honesty, fairness, justice, stewardship, compassion, and respect for human dignity, and so the real struggle begins
On a podcast interview, Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked if he thought he would be happier if he were religious. Neil replied that he was already “a pretty happy guy”. But when pressed further, he explained that religious people believe their religion to be true and can easily see that other religions are preposterous and … Read more
Think of a relationship like two people deciding to watch TV together. The quality of the relationship depends on how much they both enjoy the time (together) watching any show.
And just like watching TV, being in a relationship can fill people with happiness as much as it can lead to frustration and fights – just ask the kids who squabble over the channel to see.
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what if all of reality was simply a mirror of our own thoughts?
