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Life Update| January 2020
I don’t even know where to begin!!! I started the new year on a high. I had my whole family with me and though I had lost my voice, I was happy. Gradually, everyone started returning to their normal lives and reality set in. Back to work week was hell and when I say hell,…
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Everything That Has Happened, Led You Here
Everything you have learned Everything you have unlearned Everything you have gained Everything you have lost
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Welcome to 2020, Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! So what am I doing differently this year? I don’t believe in resolutions but I know for sure that; I will live more. I will work hard. I will treat myself kindly. I will be more intentional.
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Life Update| November 2019
Hello, how has life been treating you lately? I’m in London for a few days and I’m totally over the weather. If it was just the cold, I wouldn’t mind much but it’s been raining every day and the sun has been scarce.
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BOOKS| Quotes from Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and let your light shine forth. Never try to please everyone, if you do, you will be respected by no one. The great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of things that try to enslave us.
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Religious Tolerance: I Went For a Midweek Service in a Church
I’m a Muslim by birth and practice and I had only ever been to a church for a wedding ceremony until recently when I went for a midweek service. Christianity and Islam are the two dominant and organized religions in Nigeria and in most cases, every Nigerian is identified by one of the two religions.
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It’s Okay Not To Be Okay
Sometimes, everything hits you all at once. You lose your job, your relationship, a friend, a business opportunity, someone you really love. Or everything seems to be going according to plan; you finally landed that job, you got your dream car, you just got married but you aren’t happy and you can’t understand why.
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Just Because…
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should Just because it feels right doesn’t mean it’s right Just because you can fight doesn’t mean you have to
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Life As A Single & Over 30-Year-old Nigerian Woman
Being single is awesome and sometimes it’s not. There are days where you’re happy you didn’t settle and days where you envy what your married friends have. In this post, five single and thirty something Nigerian women share their truth.
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A Few Reasons You Should Smile Often
Smile because you woke up this morning, you are alive and you have another day to take on the world. Smile because you can see the sunshine in all its glory and also see it set at the end of the day.
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How To Be Emotionally Independent
Is there someone you feel like you can’t live without? Have you uttered statements like “I don’t think I can exist without you”, “I can’t live without you” “if you leave me, I wouldn’t know how to exist” and meant it from the bottom of your heart?
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Life Update| September 2019
I’ve never owned a journal but if I did own one, I would have written this post in it. Lately, I’ve been waking up feeling uninterested to start my day. As a matter of fact, I snoozed my alarm most of last week and skipped my early morning workout.
MARIAM SHITTU 