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Trust me, I keep to my words.

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            I am sitting in my room this Saturday evening, listening to Meghan Trainor's Treat Myself and I want to just talk about trust. How many times have you ever had to hold on to just what someone says like that is the only assurance you have? How many times have you gotten angry that people did not keep to their words and most importantly how many times have you been the person not keeping to your words? Trust (N) Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality That upon which confidence is reposed, ground of reliance; hope Trustworthiness, reliability.        The thing is that over time, I have noticed that all people can count on at times is what you tell them and how much you keep to it. We get offended if people make promises to us and don't keep them when that delivery is just delayed with no reason whatever but most times we tend to forget if we have the same issue.  I am actually no longer surprised when I hear people say that the thing about life is not to p

Moving On: Healing a Broken Heart

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source: twitter

In Search of Identity

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source: Pinterest, new maps illustrated by Ed Fairburn . Identity (N): The difference of character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood. A name or persona -the mask or appearance one presents to the world- by which one is known. Sense of who one is. For the longest time, I was comfortable being fluid and quite content in being anyone for anybody; the quiet girl, the storyteller, the mischief, the brilliant student, the rude person next door, the crazy girl, the lover and all the while, it became a little easier to trick my mind to create a false identity and gradually, a mixup occurred and I became unaware of the truth about my identity. It is like all the voices in my head came alive and began to pull me apart and finally I realised I don't know who I am. Yeah, I know it is crazy and extremely sad to lose your identity - a sense of who you are- because it allows for someone else to define that for you, you fade away into the shadows and