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Mastered with a distinction🧑🏿‍🎓. MSc. Applied Development Economics; Development Management in the bag 💼 from the London School of Economics. God did a thing here and I’d be forever grateful 🥹🙏.

My cousin Wale joined a dating app in Pretoria and matched with a woman who said her name was Thandi. Her profile said she loved hiking, jazz, and deep conversations about the meaning of life. Wale said he also loved all 3 things. He had never hiked in his life. The first date was at a botanical garden. Wale wore hiking boots he had bought that morning. The sales assistant had asked if he was a serious hiker. Wale said he was a serious romantic. The assistant sold him socks too. Thandi arrived in sandals and a sundress. She looked at his boots. She asked if he was planning to climb a mountain. Wale said the mountain was metaphorical. Thandi said metaphors were for men who couldn't commit to actual terrain. They argued about hiking for 20 minutes. Then about jazz. Thandi said her favourite artist was Hugh Masekela. Wale said he also loved Hugh Masekela. Thandi asked him to name one album. Wale said The Best of Hugh Masekela. She stared at him. He stared back. Then she laughed so hard a security guard came over to check if she was okay. They have been married for 4 years. Wale now owns 3 pairs of hiking boots and can name every Masekela album. He still cannot hike. Thandi says the boots are a monument to the best lie she ever caught. The meaning of life, they have discovered, is not a deep conversation. It is watching someone fail at pretending and deciding they are worth the mess. Love is a lie you both agree to laugh about forever.

Monica deserves that slap her brother gave her, he for break her head sef🤭 Person wey nor see gree get sense na so dem suppose treat am👌 #Monicapart2

Wait fesssss o. 😫 This Monica babe…..what’s with this sweeping?? Monica has taken me through a lot in this movie. Too much. Feels like I need therapy. 😫 Monica ma pami nauu! 😫😫 #Monica2

Uche Montana first start with rage bait for this monica part 2 but the ending made me happy,I like that she just forgave them no extra sauce😂. Meanwhile that wedding scene looked a lot like what I expected from love in every word 2 #Monica2

The beginning of #Monica2 really had me 😡. Glad how things turned out

I’m in love with this sentence: “Consistency looks like nothing is happening, until everything changes.”

Unfortunately, as you get older, you gradually become less interested in new music and keep going back to the old favorite songs you once loved.

One thing I love about traveling is that it shatters the illusion that your current life is the only possible one.

Heavy on "na you sabi" because na you really sabi

Thank God for The Holy Spirit that keeps us in check, because my human mind sometimes has a lot of mean things to say to people 🤷🏽‍♂️

People can be so weird tbh. They suddenly start avoiding you instead of being accountable especially when money is involved. To say I’m disappointed is me putting it mildly

The secret to being a private person is to overshare dumb shit so that people think you’re an open book but then not tell them any of the important details of your life

No pretendo exagerar pero el arte va a salvar tu vida. la música, la pintura, la cerámica, la escritura, el tallado, el tejido… el acto de CREAR te va a salvar.

I told my boyfriend that I didn’t get the promotion and guy just hissed and said “their loss” I thought that was the end of it cos we all know men don’t do emotional stuff But last night his mum called and said “I heard what happened “ and this woman proceeded to tell me how she was overlooked 4 times too.. After the call, I texted him why and he replied “ I didn’t know what to say, but I knew she would” 🥺

+1 today 🎉🎊🙏

every time you replace “this is hard” with “what’s the first step?” you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving). that’s neuroplasticity in real time.

What a privilege it is to afford a gym, buy healthy food, pay bills, have legs that walk, eyes that see, a brain that functions, work every day, and take our bodies to their full potential.

An astronaut talked about his Christian faith while rounding the moon over Easter last week.

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

Don’t force yourself to be kind just to prove you’re a good person. Don’t go out of your way when you don’t want to. If things go bad, you won’t regret real kindness but you’ll regret the niceness you had to force, especially for someone who didn’t deserve it.