Category Spiritual

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.” – John Lennon

African Renaissance: Why the Battle for a Better Africa Starts With Your Thinking

The African Renaissance starts when you fix your thinking. African Renaissance Why the Battle for a Better Africa Starts With Your Thinking

When we look at Western countries, envy and anger often collide within us.

Envy because we wish we’d been born under winter snow, where quality of life is high, opportunities are bountiful, and systems actually work. And anger because we resent being here instead—in Africa, under the heat of the Sahara—where life feels backwards, a constant struggle to move forward, with uncertainty slowly draining hope out of us.

Still, many of us fail to be aware or maybe don't see it relevant to remember that the West wasn't always "Advanced” or enviable.

A Year To Grok: Dick David’s Living Eulogy [On Being 28]

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.

You’re Not Running Out of Time: Why the Idea of Early and Late Bloomers Misses the Point

What nobody told me then, what nobody might have told you now, is that the “designated time” when “success” is supposed to happen is arbitrary. And the anxiety that comes from these designated timelines destroys your peace and hampers your growth. 

Yet, we run with these timelines. Society as a whole has invented two categories of individuals, early bloomers and late bloomers, to further solidify these arbitrary timelines. Both labels further intensify the issue with the timelines.