Author: Mariam Shittu

  • Are You Eating Too Much or Is Food Being Shoved In Your Face?

    Are You Eating Too Much or Is Food Being Shoved In Your Face?

    Food is essential for living no doubt. Every contestant of Naked and Afraid will tell you how horrible and incapable they felt when they went without food for days. However, how much food is essential for survival?

  • POEM| You Don’t Get To Choose

    POEM| You Don’t Get To Choose

    I don’t have to answer your calls I don’t have to reply to your messages I don’t have to tell you how my day went I don’t have to answer the door when you come by

  • Things I Don’t Want To Be Worried About

    Things I Don’t Want To Be Worried About

    I don’t want to be worried about how many hours of sleep I will get and if I will wake up before my alarm goes off.
 I don’t want to be worried about what is going to happen tomorrow or next tomorrow when today has only just started.

  • POEM| Tired of Being Your Slave

    POEM| Tired of Being Your Slave

    The days I need you you punish me suffer me with waiting and choose when you want to show up

  • How I Styled My Dramatic Sleeve Blouse

    How I Styled My Dramatic Sleeve Blouse

    If you’ve shopped recently, you will know that there are some really cool blouses with dramatic sleeves trending. From bell sleeves to bishop sleeves, to flounce sleeves, to ruffle sleeves, there is something for everyone to explore.

  • Top 5 Places On My Travel Bucket List

    Top 5 Places On My Travel Bucket List

    From the first time I ever created a CV/resume for myself, I added ”travel” as one of my interests and that hasn’t changed ever since. I have a very long travel bucket list but these are the top 5 places I would like to visit. 1. Paris 2. Singapore

  • POEM| You Are Not Broken

    POEM| You Are Not Broken

    You are not broken 
You are number one 
and second to none 
You are amazing 
You are sunshine 
You are enough

  • Why You Should Focus on Today

    Why You Should Focus on Today

    Have you ever thought about simply living in the moment instead of focusing on a future you haven’t seen? We tend to pay more attention to tomorrow, next week, next month or next year and little attention to today. 

  • POEM| Undecided

    POEM| Undecided

    Making decisions has never been my strongest suit because I always find it hard to choose anything

  • POEM| I Want To Be Here

    POEM| I Want To Be Here

    I’m here
 but I’m not really here
 my body is here
 but my mind is elsewhere


  • Choose To Be Kind, Always

    Choose To Be Kind, Always

    Have you asked yourself lately if you are a kind person? Kindness is often mistaken with niceness yet these two words are totally different. We describe people as nice and kind interchangeably but I believe that while it is good to be nice, it is essential to be kind.

  • Book Review| This Thing Called Purpose

    Book Review| This Thing Called Purpose

    Do you ever feel like you’re incapable of doing some things because you aren’t very knowledgeable in that field, even though you want to? Do you ever talk down on yourself or feel like you are not enough? Do you ever feel like there’s nothing special about you and you have no gift(s)?