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It won’t be long before you discover that the human mind is sick. Our emotional body is wounded and infected with emotional poison that manifests in the form of fear, anger, hate, sadness, envy and hypocrisy amongst other emotions that practically make humans suffer. Where did we get this disease. Suffice to say, all humans are mentally sick with this same disease and this world might just be a huge mental hospital. What hurts the most is not only the effects of this sickness but the fact that this disease has been with and within us for thousands of years such that it has been normalized in all facets of life. The medical literature, psychiatric literature and the society at large has accepted the disease as normal which has even led to the education system adapting such a norm and instilling it in us from a tender age. We have even come up with names such as paranoia, psychosis, schizophrenia just to come to terms with our illness but what it all means is that our reasoning mind is s...

Thank you for coming into my life For showing me good times For being the shoulder I needed For immersing me in laughter and joy For sharing your thoughts Thank you for the free lessons you taught me For sharing your bliss For sharing your gloom For showing yourself Thank you for teaching me the art of betrayal For showing me the opposite of love For showing me the risks of falling in love For preparing me for the worst For bringing out emotions I never thought I had Thank you for changing me For making me appreciate the good in bad For making me realize how strong I am Thank you for making me the best of persons I hope I made you a better person too And above all, I hope I left you a grateful soul.

To us millennials, social media has become part of our life-package and ceased to be the mere privilege and a means of social connection it ought to be. While social media has the potential to beautify our day-to-day relationships, it also has the ability to cause great damage, particularly in our relationships. Social media can become an addiction. Frankly, I am on Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook throughout the day, partly because I am a blogger and need to stay abreast but the other part of me just loves seeing newsfeeds and stories from various people (some I don’t even know in person). I am curious about their lifestyle and how they spend their time which got me realizing that this can be a hazardous place to be. One minute you’re looking at the #ManCrushMonday hashtag on Instagram, and the next moment you take your eyes of the screen, it’s three years later, you’ve suffered a major heartbreak and you’re lonely despite the endless friend-lists or the infinite scroll...

You have probably heard the phrase “Think outside the box!” or came across the phrase in literature at least once in your lifetime. The expression has become a mantra frequently quoted in various institutions with the intention to encourage imaginative thinking, creativity and innovation. We have been subjected to a comfort zone characterized by familiar and linear routines which “boxes” our minds. I have always wondered, why think outside the box? Then I came across a quote that read “there are many ways to kill a cat” and then I thought to myself “that’s it.” We have to realize the importance of breaking through the status quo and the decades-old approaches to life, problem solving and strategizing thus this article’s primary intention. Resolved, one has to think outside the box because there are many ways to kill a cat. Inside the box which are the different societies we live in, there are set norms for us to believe from a tender age such that we cannot act or think contra...

Socialization can be anything from being good, necessary, to being evil depending on what each individual or institution perceive. As in the words of the famous or infamous Adolf Hitler: “through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and vice versa to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”- Adolf Hitler. The aggravated absent mindedness people suffer from as soon as they get online, as they get sucked into a world of sublime lies, fabrication and fantasies; reminds me that socialization has ceased to be a matter of where one comes from but what one is exposed to. With media taking over almost every little remains of what was once called culture, culture itself is no longer of significance. I do not seek to anciently react to how people dress, talk or eat but my primary concern has always ascended when people start living a lie which I’ve coined “the new millennial cancer.” I realized that anyone an...

‘For these and other days, I express regret for the complications I have instigated in your hearts and minds.’ – Lord Vito Relationships nowadays have lost value and meaning, leaving a trail of heart-breaks and hatred as it were. Friendship is no longer a golden-tie, love is meaningless, relation-ships are beginning to sink and the life jackets are deflated as it were, leaving a few survivors if any. Love is maturing into stressful lives, unsolved mysteries, and heated arguments. Unforgettable pasts are starting to creep into healthy relationships thus weakening their immunity to third parties and interference from uninvited guests. Our partners’ friends of the opposite sex have become nothing but potential rivals. Relationships nowadays are for nothing more than convenience. Nine out of ten times, the guy/girl we’re told not to worry about becomes our successor after we’re dumped, our instincts are almost right but we ignore the truth for temporary happiness. ...