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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...

‘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. ...

As I look back on my previous relationships, I realize and acknowledge that I’m no angel when it comes to breakups. I’ve had my fair share of, deleting all the pictures, throwing away gifts, throwing tantrums, emotional breakdown, thwarting and changing cliché Instagram & Facebook captions. But as I reflect on my life (as I do so every sleepless night), I begin to realize my life is the way it is because of my exes, which made me feel the need to respect them as it were. All in all, my life has been significantly altered because of most people that no longer serve a purpose in it. Even though it may have taken me longer to come to this realization, I’d like to challenge you to be grateful for the good and the bad that transformed you into who you are today because whether you like it or not, we’ve only got one chance to make this the best life we’ve ever lived, and it’ll be a whole lot better if we carried no emotional baggage from the past with us. ‘Respect y...

Today I wonder if what I did was right. To be within myself and let my heart fight. To lose someone so special like you. And never to let out even a slight clue. I confess I was always crazy about you. I admit I couldn't stop falling in love with you. You filled my empty feeling within, for you were with me through thick and thin. Every time I spoke to you, the more I fell in love with you. U left me no choice but to watch someone else enjoy my piece of cake. I could bear an empty heart, but not lose a smile that made the dark glow. I saw my dream breaking, and yet I held back my tears to fulfill ur dreams which you always whispered close to my ears. I was in pain and yet I pretended to be strong. I always wished for u to be right and me to be wrong  I stayed quiet even when I had most to say just to avoid a rant My heart wanted you to stop hurting me but your happiness mattered more. I wanted to say that which would make you stay but my lips didn...

I'm trying to forget you so the pain won't hurt as much but I can't.  Did you really have to go & make me feel numb when I needed you the most? Every day, something reminds me of you. I remember the times when we were happy & the times we were sad. We were "together" through it all. We pulled through a lot of things... "together" but now, you're gone. I keep trying to forget you but it's impossible. "Impossicant" because I still love you. I can't forget you when everything reminds me of you. I miss you the most especially when my hopes are shattered like this. Maybe the point of life is learning how to let go but how can I unlove you? How can I erase you from my heart, mind & soul when you have impacted my life with massive intensity? I used to think I'll get used to living without you but issa lie! I pretend to be brave and to be happy without you but I know you see right through me. ...

"I thought it was love all along until it ended."- Lord Vito I have come to the realization that Love is the greatest emotion of all and apparently the greatest mystery to mankind. How is this so? Apparently “what is love?” was the most searched phrase on Google in 2012 meaning as much as we might want to believe we have known and experience love for a long time, we haven’t come to the absolute truth about love but have been only able to come up with theories to explain what love is based on different perceptions as it were. Arguing from a biological perspective, physician Jim Al-Khalili asserts that:  “love is chemistry.”- Jim Al-Khalili He further argues that love is a powerful neurological condition like hunger or thirst, only more permanent. When we say love is blind or unconditional, we are subscribing to the theory that love is chemistry since the basis of the notion love is blind or unconditional is the simple fact that we h...