Things I love about May. Apart from the month being my birth month, it holds a special place in my life. Perhaps the others centre around the fact that it is my birth month. There is always something worth loving about every month and below are things I love about the month May : A New year and half a year : I don't know but for me, I celebrate my birthday like I celebrate new year. You know those feelings of renewed hopes New year brings right? I feel them more when it's my…
Hello my lovely friends. I wasn't active almost throughout the day on readcash due to the eid preparations. We've been working our asses off the entire day. Thanks for your understanding. Yours Layly, 💖.
A simple but happy Eid! I had wanted to post something about the Celebration but I was too exhausted after returning from the visitings that's customary on festive periods like Eid. I couldn't even reply comments nor visit articles, I just came on read, got overwhelmed and logged back out as quickly as I logged in. It was Eid Yesterday! Eid-el-fitr to be precise. The Eid celebrations stretch up to a week so the festive mood is still on. So I am going to share with you my…
Do you care about being liked? It's cool to be a likeable person. I mean walking into a room full of people waving and smiling up to the ear at you, whispering into the ears of those next to them about your greatness and how much of a likeable person you're, with them wanting to flock around you with attempts to engage you in a conversation one way or the other while giving you an ego boost someone who's new to the room would think you were a celebrity. All these are cool…
A break can cause you to break! Breaks and relaxation are deeply essential to our goals if we truly want to achieve them. They reboot us for when we get back on the grind, are an opportunity to take a step back to introspect on things we have done so far and also a time to do other things we love apart from pursuing goals continuously. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy they say, but when is it recommended to rest? Personally I don't think there's any specific time a…
Extension of ASUU strike : killing the remaining 10% student in me. The ringing of my phone made me abruptly wake up from my distressful nap with a headache, it was my friend from school who called to check up on me after reportedly hearing that I was sick. She thought it was something serious and she was all panicky over the phone until I told her that it was just the cluster headache I have from time to time. The headache further worsened when I took a sneak peek into my…
We are all in Love. Earlier today, I was having a chat with @Aimure I told him I am out of ideas on what to write today, he suggested that I write about my favourite quote and that suggestion made me remember a quote I coined from my personal beliefs. The quote goes : ***"A life without Love isn't worth living, and Love without sacrifice is non-existent."*** ~DocLayla. The above quote pretty much sums up my beliefs and what every action I take is based upon. For me, Love…
A damage, a repair and a damage. For the past three days, I have been having some issues with my phone although not an internal issue it is still annoying. The charging port became faulty and since the power retaining capacity of the phone is rather low, I usually charge it with my power bank at almost all times. Ever since the charging point got faulty, it became impossible for me to use the phone while charging it with my power bank as I have to incline the cable at an…
On regrets in life. Mistakes are a part of life, they become scary when instead of learning from them we keep repeating them, that's when it is called stupidity rather than a mistake. When we make mistakes that are serious, they may turn into regrets which may linger even long after the mistakes happened. Although painful, feelings of regrets are necessary because they serve as constant reminders for us not to repeat the same mistake which brought about the regret in the…
How's your Saturday going? Good day readstars! I hope you all are having an amazing Saturday! If so I am happy for you, if not I am also happy for you since you're at least alive to witness yet another Saturday! On hot Saturdays like this, I bring out pile of clothes to wash since there's ample amount of sun to make them dry on time. I make sure I purchase about 5 gallons of water to prevent any hindrances along the line because once I start washing, I don't like to stop. My…
Me as a soldier. Now it's like customary for me to dream almost every night I fall asleep. A good amount of these dreams are meaningless, like dreams you have of yourself drinking yoghurts or flying on a dragon, I even will myself to dream about certain things by merely sleeping with the thoughts of the thing in my head. Some of this dreams however I feel have a meaning, even if the meaning is not apparent to me yet. So in the most recent dream I had, I was a soldier. Like a…
The death of a friend. Death comes in the most unexpected of circumstances, leaving us with grief we've never felt before, the grief gets worse if this unwelcomed but inevitable visitor comes to those who we feel we can't live without, people like our parents, siblings, close friends and other loved ones with whom we've maintained close relationships. As young people growing up, we know they death knows no age and isn't restricted to elderly people only and yet for some…
An almost triggered pneumonia and a bomb explosion. I woke up from my disturbed sleep in the middle of the night with difficulty breathing. It was my pneumonia which got triggered. I couldn't remember drinking cold water for the past day so I concluded I must have inhaled something that triggered it. After waking up, it was difficult for me to go back to sleep and even if it were possible, I don't dare go back as it could lead to the worsening of the chest's tightness. I was…
Expecting things from people is one thing, raising their expectations is another. "Never make a promise you cannot fulfill". The sad thing about most hackneyed phrases or quotes like the one stated above is that they have lost their true value simply because they have become too cliche. Promising things you can't fulfill is something I relate with wickedness like, for real. One of the reasons people are scared to get into relationships with other people is expectations. As…
Thank you immensity sir @Olasquare for the sponsorship renewal. Layla is very grateful. More wins Sire. 💖😘
The fear of abandonment. This morning, my cousin was about to go to work after taking his bath, he headed towards the gate while his youngest child scampered behind him, crying for his attention. He came back and took his son, patting him gently to stop the tears. He handed the little boy to the boy's mother who sat on a stool in the compound operating her mobile phone. She took him and sat him down on her laps while my cousin headed towards the gate again to go to work. He…
What's your bed-wetting experience that almost ruined you? Talking about little dark childhood secrets, a lot of us got alot of em! Bed-wetting is one of those secrets we dare not talk to our friends about but would want to know their own secrets. It was viewed as something embarrassing and quite shameful. One could easily become a laughing stock among his/her peers if the secret leaks out! While it is true that not everyone bedwetted as a kid, it is quite unlikely that a…
Special thanks to amazing @garrethgrey for the sponsorship renewal. More wins to you💖
A dialogue with a mosquito. The reason I am writing later than my normal writing time is because I drifted away while doing something I had forgotten about already, it wasn't that important by the way. Just then, a mosquito came wheezing by, in broad daylight! It is quite uncommon for me to see mosquitoes during the daytime but today not only did I see it, it sang me a lullaby very close to my ear. You know one of those moments when something happens and you're not sure if…
Thoughts and actions and the significance of 3am. Our brains have this amazing ability to be able to reprogram and rewire itself through our actions and the activities that go on in our mind. In reality, we have more control over our brains than we think and if we put ourselves to it, we're capable of controlling what we think, how we think, our perspective to things and our thought patterns in general. Activities repeated regularly stick, the brain recognises them and they…
Is there a limit to how much of ourselves we sacrifice? The ability and willingness to make selfless sacrifices is a much valued and rare trait to find in a person. If you have people who are that selfless and do things just for you, please do not let them go for they are getting rarer by the hour. If you're one of those people please do not change. We need more of you in this world. 💖💖 Although I consider the trait as a very desirable one, infact "sacrifice" forms a very…
Children's day in Nigeria. I used to think that the 27th of may is children's day worldwide until today when I was thinking to write an article. I asked google what is date is children's day and to my surprise, it was something different. Not even close to the date I have always thought was children's day. I found that the date set aside for children's day globally is the 20th of November and the reason it was surprising to me is because I once made it my mission to memorise…
It's my birthday!! 💖💖 Good day y'all!! Today is the long awaited day, my birthday! On this day, a princess was born👑👑😊. I am not really a big fan of celebrating birthdays in the conventional way like preparing cakes or throwing parties, nonetheless my birthday is a special day for me and will always remain so. I of course treat myself to something nice, most especially in the night and it's a day when I reflect on how I have lived my life so far, no one is too young for…
Kids and me. Good day y'all and thanks to all those who wished me a happy birthday on my last article. Thanks for all the well wishes, prayers, compliments and blessings. I wish you all same too, I felt happy and loved when I saw all the messages 😍😍🎈. Indeed I have awesome friends here! I don't really have much to write about today as I have been feeling rather demotivated since my a day before my birthday, burn out I guess, happens sometimes to me. So allow me to introduce…
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