Clashing of months. We marched right out of March and here we are, already landed in April! It's been one hell of a month I think for most of us. A lot went down in the month of March that will stick around in our brains for a reasonable amount of time or so I think. Well for me, March was a month of laziness and productivity. It was an ambiguous month. The university strike was extended in March, a lot of accidents and killings happened in March, I lost three neighbours to…
April fool's prank: where do we draw the line? 2nd April 2022. It's now news that a lot of human beings overstep their limits with thinking how that could jeopardise others as well as themselves in the long run. People cn go a tad too much in this thing we call jokes. People make these so called jokes while bearing in mind the supposedly "funny" aspects of the joke without considering the "unfunny" aspect of the joke and when they hurt people with such jokes, they say "that…
All we've got is ourselves. 3 April, 2022. *Is it the love you think is unconditional or the one you think is being reciprocated? Is it the care you're constantly being shown by your parents, friends and loved ones? Is it the gifts you receive from them on a regular basis? Is it the priceless company or the countless opportunities we get from these awesome angels in form of people that come into our lives... Or is it something else I haven't mentioned yet?* I sometimes think…
What childhood scars of yours are still prominent? April 4th, 2022. There are lots of stuff and emotional garbage we carry with us from childhood into adulthood, infact most of those childhood experiences shape and make us the people we are as adults. However in this article, I am not going to talk about emotional or psychological scars but physical scars. An article by @jane about childhood accidents gave me an idea on what to write today, thanks to that! As children, our…
My first(and last and never again!) smoking experience. After reading @Kushyzee post titled "Do you smoke?" I stopped to think after reading the title and asked myself "does he mean cigarettes, pipe, cigar or shisha?"I know, the title is quite straightforward right? It's simply," do you smoke or not" without any specifications but somehow, I still wanted to confirm because I felt kind of guilty for some reason I don't understand.…
World Health Day :Our planet, Our Health. The 7th of April has been globally acclaimed to World Health Day, a day set aside to create awareness on the importance and indispensability of our health. On this day, health issues are discussed and attention are drawn to specific health issues troubling mankind. This day is also celebrated as the day when the World Health Organisation was established in 1948. Without a doubt, it is a day worth celebrating and looking forward to.…
Writing prompt #27; time: one second gone, one limb gone. ***"With each passing second, we lose part of ourselves that we will never get back".*** The above quote just popped in my head while writing the title and I bet someone has already said it before. Some wise dude I guess. For real, even the not so smart person knows the importance of time, it's either he ignores it or gets himself "busy". Now imagine that is what really happens when each second passes, I mean imagine…
Water is gold. Let me repeat it here; water is indeed gold. Imagine going a day without using water, at the end of the day you'd end up feeling like hell. You can survive a day without washing your clothes, you can survive a day without bathing, how about going a day without feeling that refreshing moisture of water on your tongue? Oh you can too? Great! How about two days? You can also? That's awesome. Three days?.... Why are you silent? 😂😂 My area is plagued with a…
Mother-wife rivalry. We women not only pray for good husbands, but also pray for good mothers-in-law but unfortunately we aren't always lucky with that one. You can get the good man alright, but if the mother in law doesn't like you then there's a very big problem. This problem can lead to lack of peace of mind when you've done nothing wrong as some mothers-in-law are always on the quivive for the smallest of faults you show, they do not hesitate to scold you lr even call…
Sometimes you just sail.. An article I read sometime ago Princessbusayo talked about creating plans and adhering strictly to them. Creating plans is a very good and effective way to plan your day, week or even month depending on what the plans are and the duration you've set for yourself to achieve them. While planning things is one way to go about many things, **not** planning things is another way to go about it. Is it reality? What's the difference between a goal and a…
Hello guys. I just got met with a surprise!! A friend and course mate of mine joined read.cash three days ago and I even had no idea until I stumbled against his article. I confirmed it was him when I chatted him privately. He's a very young and talented dude and my school dad! 😂😂I bet he has alot to share with you guys including his precious fictional stories. Here's the link to his profile: https://read.cash/@Ulquiorra
Fine! Fine and fine! Hello readstars! How are you all doing? How was your day and how's life in general? I hope you're doing all great. Now alot of us here start our articles with questions like in the first paragraph, the first paragraph consists of a list of questions, and normally questions should be answered right? I mean they aren't supposed to be rhetorical questions and I didn't mean for them to be, but I can swear that those who will comment on this article won't…
Poor and proud. Back in the day, long before you and I were born and during our childhood years, it is needless to say that life was way easier then. Money had alot of value, the world was very much at peace, the love and care was real, the laughter and joy was real, and in general the standard of living was high. Our parents do not necessarily have to be well to do for them to take care of us in the best way possible. Infact many of us came from poor homes but we never…
A fry-day (got burnt!!) To be honest, I had no intention of writing here today as I am aware it'd turn out a very busy day for me since yesterday and that's what it is. That's why I haven't visited many articles today and last night as I had to go to bed early in preparations for today's tasks. I am to go to my uncle's house who leaves in Sabon gari(a place very far from my town) to collect and hand over some items. That has been the custom in my family for as long as I can…
Finding lost treasures in crannies. I decided to do a general sanitation in my house today being Saturday. I woke up as early as 4:00am feeling very refreshed. Considering the fact that I was tired on Friday night, it was surprising!! So I decided to take advantage of the situation and do some cleaning in the house. I started the cleaning at 6:00am because I am fasting and if I had delayed it till afternoon, I may not have the energy to do so... It is 11:00am here so you…
Are you addicted to or obsessed with readcash? About three days ago, I checked my profile page and saw that I am already 6 months old on read.cash. It felt like I joined yesterday. I remember when I was still new on readcash(one to two months old) I used to engage alot, visit people's articles, drop good comments and upvote them. However as time went by and I had to resume school, the pressure was so overwhelming that I had to ditch readcash for while. The classes, hospital…
Finally got wet again! Yesterday was a lazy day for me, having spent the whole night up without batting an eyelid it is normal for me to pay my debt the next day. I stayed up all night studying without sleeping prior to 1:00am and that's to say I spent 24 hours without sleeping. My body took on all of the suffering because when I started sleeping at about 8:00am, I didn't wake up until 5:00pm. Although I would wake up in between hours but I couldn't do a thing! It felt like…
How do you get back on track? Planning the events in our day helps us remain mindful of our activities, if we're intentional about them, our level of focus is heightened and we carry on all the activities we planned even when there's a hitch if we're determined enough. However many a times things happen that are absolutely out of our control, things we can do little or nothing about. Other times because of how flawed our human nature is, we skip things we have planned…
Trials and tribulations : maybe a story. *The very large box of insecurity and fear that sitn my chest has cost me alot on life. Wishing it would all go didn't make it any less. It kept increasing minute by minute, day by day until I created my own world of make-believe. Like a cocoon with an underdeveloped insect inside it because that's what I was, underdeveloped. I shut myself from the rest of the world having wanted nothing to do with the world or its activities. I only…
Fallen in love with a cadaver (prologue) *One of the most fascinating things of second year of medschool is getting to see, study and dissect cadavers for the very first time. The stories told to us by our predecessors only succeeded in putting our curiosity on edge. It's the twelfth week of resumption now but still we haven't started the dissection and that kept infuriating the shit out of me and more so because the reason they gave for not having started the dissection was…
What's your biggest motivation behind helping people? Humans are very complicated beings and despite them being a he most intelligent creatures on earth, they still have a hard time understanding themselves and one another. I have often seen people help others for various reasons that suit them. It is in our nature to do things that are beneficial to us in the long run, I am not saying that everyone is selfish but what if that's what I am saying?... ***That everyone is…
How does the weather affect your mood? I like to think that one of the reasons why we have different weathers, apart from maintaining a balance in nature is because there's always a weather than each individual happens to resonate with, some people are far more productive and fare well in some weathers while they become mostly redundant in some. I feel like if hibernation or burrowing where a characteristic of humans, I'd spend a certain weather buried underneath the earth!…
Aloneness or Loneliness? I read an article by @HerBAE titled "Silence and solitude". He talked about how solitude is important and why we should all try to practice solitude in our lives. As a person who has felt and has eventually fallen in love with the feeling of being in positive isolation, I have been often misunderstood as someone who's shy and doesn't ***like*** associating with people. People see me as a person with many insecurities (not to deny the fact that I do…
Maintaining focus: becoming more effort-oriented. We all want different problems and things we wish to achieve, and our desire to achieve what we wish is shown in how hard we work for it. While working to get the desired goal, we get caught up in thoughts that can be distractive, demotivating or even over exciting. Thoughts that can both push us towards the directions of our goals as well as serve as a hindrance towards achieving this goal. In our efforts to achieve things,…
Correcting mistakes and criticism. We all make mistakes, sometimes not once, twice but many times because just like in the case of learning, we assimilate in different rates.Some people learn from their first mistakes while others repeat the same mistake twice or more before learning from it, some never learn from their mistakes at all. We learn from mistakes in different ways like taking time to reflect but most times, we need someone else to point it out to us because…
A failed schedule and a cracked phone screen. Good morning readtizens!! It's almost three o'clock in the morning here. I went to bed around 10:00pm just so I could wake up to do one or two things but it soon turned out I had quite a lot to eat because I slept right through the stipulated waking time. I set an alarming but it seemed some cockroach decided to stuff my air with invisible cotton wool because I heard not the slightest ringing of the alarm from my phone.…
Accepting your mistakes and receiving criticism. Yesterday we talked about how to give others criticism in a positive way, how to make it come across as positive and not as an attack, we viewed it from the angle in which you're the giver of criticism, today we will be talking about how to receive criticism. As a receiver of criticism, a person is more vulnerable as the criticism he is tp receive can come in different forms, both good and bad forms. It is therefore very…
A mango theft story from long ago. It is believed that our days as students are among the most exciting days in our lives: the adventure, the tears, the laughter, the joy, the spanking (haha). Today I am going to narrate to you one of the many adventures we had as boarding school students. During my high school days, I attended a boarding house (some of you probably know that already!). Apart from the little foodstuffs our parents give us when we resume, we were fed three…
"Burning the midnight garbage" The month of April has almost eventually came to a screeching halt(well let's talk about those monthly stuff we do here tomorrow). Good morning fam! It's 2:00 o'clock in the morning here, a bit fresh a bit misty but the air isn't so pure, had a fire burning from the huge refuse disposal wasteland that's far from mh house but somehow still managed to disturb me). There's been fire burning emitting dense black smoke which is affecting the whole…
What do you want to be remembered for when you die? It is something I think about often. We always leave impressions whether good or bad whenever we have interactions with people. You might come off as a sassy person with lots of humor to Mr A and a boring, overtly serious person to Mr B. If you're to die tomorrow, Mr A will remember you mostly for your liveliness, humor and laughter and Mr B will remember you for your discipline, perfectionism or seriousness. We present…
Started it with April fool and the ending with April full. The month of April is finally full and complete. Tomorrow we begin a new month full of love and blessings much greater than that of April. Today I am going to discuss how April went for me covering all aspects of my life and I'd be glad to read about how it went for you too. Before I start writing, this month was rather short for me the reason probably being because the whole month was spent fasting. The beginning of…
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