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My Favorite lists of 2022

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A picture of me to spice things up Like Barack Obama, I want to start making a list of my favorite things by the end of the year. Asides from the fact it makes me feel like I didn't spend the year playing around, it’ll allow me to look forward to something by the end of the year, and by that i’d want to do my favorite things so I can feed the internet back. While stating out the list, i’d drop a comment in a single sentence on how I feel about each. To start with, i’d start with a list of my favorite books for the year. For all the time by Shana Miles - Lost between crying and been smitten Love in Colour by Bolu Balalola - Best Afrocentric ever Professional troublemaker by Luvvie Ajayi James - Luvvie sat down to talk to me in Guise of a book. Everything I never told - Feelings too raw, eyes too sour. Travelers by Helon Habila - Refugees life matters. The secret Life of Baba Segi’s wife by Lola Shonein - Women are not good people. Things I wish I knew this earlier by Toni Tones - No...

An Ode to 2022: A 2020 in disguise

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Beautiful dawn picture from pinterest   Life can be so funny at times, we fall in love with things we used to hate and find ourselves being drawn to things we normally wouldn't  go near.   Life just takes us through a lot of unexpected paths. If there is a major lesson for me this year, it's to stop talking down on things that do not affect me or anyone else and to stop the saying ‘Can never be me’  In the last one year, everything I was ever sacred of happened, and the truth is people don't really care neither do life does. Moreover, I am learning to stop hating or complaining about adult wishes, wherever lies your happiness, go there pls. The word is going to adjust. While I have always created a form of happiness to keep me alive in periods like this from the past years and without any of that this year, I can say that while I write this; if not in its entirety, I feel something close to real happiness, I feel at peace with myself and although I am not where I wan...