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Check up on your friends.....in the hospital. Check up on yourself... at the hospital. Good morning and happy Tuesday to all my good read.cashers! ❤ First I apologise for not visiting you all articles and comments yesterday. Those who viewed my short post know about this already. I was so busy with the feeding programme. Yesterday, I was part of both cooking and distributing team and afterwards, I went to visit my sick friend in the hospital. As at now, we're cooking for…
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"Thou Shall not trespass. " *My love for nature was at its best when I was little; the celestial bodies, the trees, flowers, animals, water bodies, you name it. One of the things that used to surprise me is the agama lizard. First, the agama lizard is very common here and can be found almost everywhere, even in your comlind or room. They have these bright colours:red or orange head, light blue skin and a yellow tail. My mates at that time used to be scared of this animal but…
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Ancient Spirit. With great power comes great responsibility, with great sin comes great punishment, with great ideas come great achievements, ***with great wisdom comes great sadness (?)*** I have often heard quotes about people contemplating the influence wisdom can have on our happiness under the claim that too much wisdom or intelligence arms you with knowledge that you your might not be ready for, it might be a burden to you and since that intelligence is higher than…
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Soulful Sunday: the voice inside your head. The mind is a powerful yet sometimes misleading tool. A lot of us, infact, most of us still live in our minds. This constantly brings us untold suffering, suffering that we inflict on ourselves yet we dare to blame others for this one suffering. Think of incidents when your mind has told you one thing and then after successfully getting you infuriated, angry and maybe even pain, you then find out that your mind had lied to you and…
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Mindful Monday :Being aware of the voice in your head. Good morning and a happy Monday to y'all readstars!! It's another great and breezy day(at least here) Hope y'all doing awesome! Yesterday we talked about the voices in our heads and all the things they say, if you're yet to read the it you can read it here, today's article will make more sense if you read yesterday's. https://read.cash/@DocLayla/soulful-sunday-the-voice-inside-your-head-d3b71146 I remember given us a…
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I hate complaining but okay.. One can't help but feel stressed and tired after investing a lot of time and energy in what they have always wanted to bring into reality. It's like channelling your very life force into your work and then end up having something that's not good enough as a result. After the tiredness that comes with the work as well as a bit of hope that keeps you moving, then frustration sets in when your efforts become wasted or simply not good enough. I have…
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Solitude or Company? Good day everyone!! First I'd like to thank all those who commented on my last article from two days ago, I took rest and I feel much better now so, I am back! Wanna know how the presentation I talked about in my last article went? Well, after grieving the lost of my file for some time, I had to do it something. I improvised. My presentation was somehow rushed but it still went quite okay. A friend gave me a helping hand in compiling the works for me and…
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Blood is my bath water. Yesterday, I cried. Waking up from a rather tumultuous sleep, I cried so much that I couldn't go back to sleep. After waking up with these severe pain in the lower side of my body and felt like something was trickling in the left side of my abdomen, I had a terrible feeling I was going to die. That deep, scary, feeling you have when you think you might die but won't be really surprised if you didn't. I bore my pain alone because waking up someone from…
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The Evil Eye. Remembered the story I wrote two days ago about a terrible dream I had? I have had recurring dreams since then and prior to then. I soon realised it wasn't something that could be treated medically after knowing that I was been haunted by djinns. It happens you know, most especially in the northern part of Nigeria. You can call them evil spirit if you want, but whatever they may be, they didn't allow me any respite for the past week. This affected my…
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A cause for panic. Due to the extended duration of the strike, students all over universities in my country who've been staying in school in the hope that the initial one month warning strike would be called off have all gone home to their parents. This was a cause for jubilation for some, for others it was either a hope shatterer or an argument sparker. It soon turned into a cause for panic for me when I heard that about five students from my University who aren't from the…
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I hurt a really good person, what do I do now? ***"Just like riding a bicycle, you've to keep pedalling in life to keep on moving. It's okay to slow down but once you stop, you fall."*** Many of us have one story or another of how our selfish or personal interests have led us to hurt someone who has nothing but good intention for us. We may be naive or immature at that time but as we learn lessons, we realise that we've not been fair with our dealings. We might have even…
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Of herbs. The way the day started off for me is quite unusual: My uncle giving me an unexpected call telling me he wanted me to get some herbs for my sister and cousin who happened to have fallen sick at the same time and are now living with him. He's an old man, the traditional kind. To him, no matter the advancement of orthodox medicine in the future, it can never wipe away the great significance of traditional drugs. I agree with him on this one although I kinda have a…
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Thanks @Jane for the sponsorship I am wholeheartedly grateful. More wins!!
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Unlocking the fourth dimension. Who's gonna come? Dehydration and a headache affecting both my "heads" as well as spreading through my neck down to my back. At a point I started suspecting it as symptoms of meningitis but then I remembered the other symptoms out of both the need to calm myself as well as refreshing my memory. This weather, hmm.. It always gets like this. When you're in the room, you feel hot, when outside you feel cold. This is the kind of weather that makes…
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For no reason. Good day my friends!! I woke up with a very deep sorrow yesterday, not because someone did me bad, not because I was insulted or beaten nor because something immediately went wrong. I woke up sad for a reason I don't know of! Yeah, you may ask "so how am I sure that it's not one of my thousand mood swings since I am that " female medico with a thousand moods swings "? First, the nature mood swings is well known to me else I wouldn't have been able classify…
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The futility of words. ***Thousands of languages, millions of dialects, yet we choose to abuse their words.*** Words, despite being the greatest means of communication, is also the most abused gift given to mankind. Words are used for unthinkable things that its true value is gradually becoming erases from the surface of the earth. The preciousness of words is such that once out, can never be retrieved, once your vocal cords work together to produce that sound, that's all…
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Wondering wednesday : Do lunatics have heightened immunity? I once asked a question in my blood physiology and immunity class about why little kids, despite being so physically vulnerable seem, to a certain degrees able to withstand the influence of infections. He expounded that kids have a larger amount of neutrophils(a type of granulocyte found in the blood that helps in curtailing the spread of bacteria from the site to other parts of the body) and White blood cells in…
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Festival turned funeral. With women chattering about the latest gossip in town amidst talking drums, with babies strapped to their backs like some kind of armor worn on the back rather than front, young boys whistling, men passing the beer around, little girls chasing one another around, the gathering seemed more like a marketplace place rather than what it truly was: a festival. Not just any festival but the King's, his wife has just given birth to a baby boy!! That's all…