When sufficiently disappointmentAnd we come to a conclusionConclusion that we cannot take it anymoreWe have made statementsStatements that felt therapeuticYet when we sit self down in a meetingWe realise the pain overtook the tongueAnd ranted verbal diarrhoeaIn anger, you can say you owe no one anythingThat you don’t care what other people think of youBut […]
Read More We Owe Each Other Something“Don’t judge a man by where he is because you don’t know how far he has come.” – C. S Lewis, 20th-century British writer I guess it is fair enough to call it one of humanity’s worst foes. Its name? The halo effect. And undoubtedly, we have both been its culprit or victim from time […]
Read More How to turn the halo effect to your advantage“Everyone for himself but God for us all.” This is a common saying accepted and lived out by many around the world. Indisputably though, this brazen and antiquated belief is partly responsible for the coldness and callousness exhibited around us. To put this in context, consider a company setup. At the slightest incidence of an […]
Read More Stay hungry, Stay foolishHe thinks of himself,Will he get to the finish line,To the home, sweet Beulah landThat which he often dreams ofAs his thoughts build the castlesThrough the pearly gatesIts walls decked with jewelsThose castles he has never seenStill, he gets off his thoughtsAnd ponders upon the glories unseen The master said,He goes to prepare a place […]
Read More The Thoughts of a Pilgrim“We can be passionate about women’s rights and compassionate toward vulnerable boys and men… We need a pro-social masculinity for a post-feminist world.” – Richard Reeves. Deep within every human is a desire to feel needed, useful, and resourceful. This intrinsic inclination mostly determines the kind of relationships we forge and the type of vocations […]
Read More Men, An Irrelevant Species?Image source: iStock Good things taste nice. Like a bite of a warm chocolate chip cookie that tastes great! Or a peal of good laughter with friends after a long, hectic, and tiresome day. Well, it’s not the laugh you make with mama mboga over the tightening state of affairs in the country, about everything […]
Read More A Good Laughter“Male and female stand and fall together. If men fall into a bad way, women will be soon to follow, and vice versa” – Anthony Esolen Yesterday, in most parts of the world, Father’s day was rightly celebrated. After all, the importance of the man in a child’s life cannot be overstated enough. In the […]
Read More Men, A Necessary Evil?We all have precious memories of our backdated wins and plenipotent achievements. Maybe we created a landmark and flamboyant testament of integrity at the workplace and got awarded for it. Or maybe you were your year’s valedictorian and went ahead to make a magna cum laude speech that has since become a blockbuster. Or just […]
Read More Knowing When To Leave Your Past Glory Alone!“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” – Martin Luther King “According to a 2021 study by the World Health Organization, globally approximately seven hundred and fifty thousand people die every year as a result of ischemic heart disease and stroke due to overwork (which is defined as […]
Read More Exposing a deified enemy“The world is going to give you beauty, but it will also give you pain. The greatest lesson you will ever learn is that this, too, is a gift.” – Bianca Sparacino Human beings are social creatures who possess an intrinsic desire to love and be loved. Yet, although most of us will ‘fall for […]
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