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This post is long due. Better late than neverrrr thouuuuu. Yeah, so I’m finally seventeen and I’ve got big plans for the new age. Some plans that didn’t quite come through the last age and some new ones as well. ‘Sixteen’ wasn’t an easy age I must say. But it wasn’t the least bit surprisingContinue reading “Finally seventeen☺️”

The society we live in today has its own perception about beauty:) Long hair, slim and slender body, tall or at least, average height, pink lips, straight legs and all. – If you aren’t any of these, they term you FAT. And they view you as disgusting, slothful, lazy, incompetent and stupid. I am notContinue reading “Body shaming”

If you grew up perfectly in Nigeria, you don’t know what God has done for you. To crown it all, being a girl child…. Parents make you do things with the phrase “…as a girl…” Or “…when you get to your husband’s house…” These phrases in particular totally turn me off. I mean, I’m notContinue reading “Growing up in my part of the world”

Every year, we pass our birthdays and know we were born that day. Every year, we also pass our death days and have absolutely no clue. It’s really not fair that we all have to struggle through life, yet, no one will make it out alive. Being a living puppet to another man’s idea ofContinue reading “The real reality”

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