Ayeni of the good life🌱

2019 VS 2024

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.

Anonymous My mom and her friend were on vacation in Italy and went looking for a place to have lunch in this small village. They found what looked like a cute little café with a patio and sat down. This old man comes out, brings them pasta, coffee, juice, everything they ordered, and then just sits down to chat with them. When they asked for the bill the man looked genuinely confused. Turns out it wasn’t a café. They had walked into some random guy’s private home and asked him to feed them 😭😭😭 And he just… did it. Italy I love you.

My phone died on a bus from Benin to Lagos in 2019. No power bank. No charger. 4 hours left on the road and nothing to do but sit with myself and watch the expressway blur past the window. The bus was full. I had the middle seat. The worst one. Wedged between a woman with a baby on her lap and an older man who smelled like camphor and engine oil and had already fallen asleep before we left the park. His name was Pa Rufus. I only know because the conductor called it when he almost missed the bus. He slept the whole first hour. Then somewhere around Ore he woke up, looked at me once, and pulled out a worn leather wallet. Not to count money. He took out a photograph. Small. Faded at the edges. Looked at it for a moment and put it back without a word. We sat in silence for another 30 minutes. Then out of nowhere he said "you look like someone carrying something heavy." I didn't know what to say so I said I was fine. He nodded like he didn't believe me and looked back out the window. I was not fine. I had just left Benin after burying my father. Hadn't cried once the entire trip. Not at the mortuary. Not at the graveside. Not when my aunties wailed loud enough to fill the whole compound. I just stood there through all of it feeling like I was watching it happen to someone else. Pa Rufus said nothing else for another hour. Then somewhere after Sagamu he reached into his bag and brought out a wrap of puff puff in a nylon. The kind tied at the top with a knot. He opened it and held it toward me without looking. I took 1. He took none. Just tied the nylon back and put it away. I ate that puff puff and something cracked open in my chest so suddenly I had to turn toward the window. I sat there crying into the glass for 10 minutes while the bus moved and the baby next to me slept and Pa Rufus looked straight ahead and said absolutely nothing. Not because he didn't notice. Because he understood that some things don't need an audience. We got to Ojota at 8pm. People started grabbing bags from the overhead. Pa Rufus stood slowly, the way old bodies negotiate with gravity, and lifted his small bag down. Then he paused and put his hand briefly on my shoulder. One second. Maybe 2. Then he moved toward the door. I never asked his full name. Never got his number. He was gone into the Ojota crowd before I even got my bag down. I still think about that puff puff. How it was cold and slightly oily and the most comforting thing anyone gave me that entire week. My father was dead and a stranger on a bus fed me in the dark and said nothing and somehow that was the thing that finally made it real. Some people don't ask what's wrong. They just hand you something warm and look away while you fall apart. Those are the ones God sends.

Ladies yes or no?

These days, I get a little stressed out, and I just go to Temu and clear my cart. I need to block my card 😂😂😂

Basic hair intelligence for girls: 1. Braided wig is trash. It makes you look tacky 2. ⁠5*5 frontal is better than full frontal. 3. ⁠Tfrontal is tacky. 4. ⁠You don’t need 26+ inches of bone straight if you do not own a car. 5. ⁠Pixie curls are a must-have. 6. ⁠12-inch bob wig would stress the hell out of you. 7. ⁠10” BS is a must-have. 8. ⁠You don’t need coloured hair if you don’t have enough black wigs. 9. ⁠70k deep wave is a waste of money. 10. ⁠Basic wigs: 10”BS, 14”pixie curls, 16” fringe STW, 18”bouncy hair, quality Tiwa hair (not 35k), all black or neutral colour Bonus: No matter how beautiful that blend hair is, DON'T buy it. I know they'll tell you it lasts better than human hair. It's economical, and all you need to do is maintenance. I repeat, DO NOT buy it❗❗❗

@DammieDre @MrMekzy_ @One_Lento 😂😂😂 Normally. I go school😂😂 E don tey wey we play sef. Fix that!

@_DearAlice_ @MrMekzy_ @One_Lento Na why you dey beat me for game be this

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Let’s make Pomegranate juice 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽 Alongside beetroot 🫜 and watermelon 🍉 The perfect combo to stay hydrated, reduce inflammation, lower your blood pressure, provide you with all the vitamins that you need and also protect your heart.

New read I hope my heart doesn’t break into a million pieces @khaledhosseini

The best way you can ever repay your parents is by giving them nothing to worry about when it comes to you. You’re not on drugs, you’re doing the right things, you’re living a healthy lifestyle, you’re taking care of your responsibilities. That’s the best thing you can do ever do for your parents.

Me: Dad I want to make my hair Him : Go and make it now Me: Money Him: How much? Me 3500 ( in my head; attachment x2=800, stylist=1000, transport and miscellaneous =1000. Pocket the rest) Him: Ha! Isn’t it better if you barb it? My barber takes 100, it is when I want to dash him money that I pay 200 Me: OK goes back to my room 30 minutes later Him: Aren’t you making your hair again? Me: But you said I should go and cut it now Him: you better do quick. I will not wait for you o. I’m going to town now. Me : Rushed to the bathroom to take a bath and get ready He drops me at the saloon Him: Call me him when you’re done and gives me 3500 2hrs later he calls, are you done? I’m going home o Me: We’re not even half done. I’ll just meet you at home Him: aren’t you hungry Me: I am very hungry, but I’ll just buy mineral and biscuits. Him: OK don’t stay out too late. Me: OK sir A few moments later he calls again to ask how many of us were in the saloon? My dad brought food for all 3 of us. The woman making my hair asked if he was my boyfriend and I said my Dad, the other lady said maybe she is his only child. This man has 9 of us and he is like that with every single one He went ahead to wait 2 extra hours just to take me home, so I don’t have to go home by myself at night. Also the first to compliment my hair even though he complained about it being too much and too long. That man has loved me my entire life, being actively present and I would give him the entire universe if I could.

decorating your home feels like a love letter to yourself.

Realizing that the whole pineapple is bad and having to throw it away really hurts😩😩and most times, you have a lot of them like this and you really have no other choice than to throw it away. Wasted money.

I kept texting my ex-coworker after she quit. Just memes. Funny stuff from the office. “You’re missing this chaos.” She’d reply with laughing emojis. We did this for months. Then she stopped responding. I figured she moved on. Made new friends. Forgot about our inside jokes. Kept sending memes anyway. Once a week. No responses. Just kept going. Felt stupid but couldn’t stop. She’d been my work best friend. Only person who got my humor. Six months of silence. Then one day. “I’m so sorry I haven’t replied. I’ve been in treatment. Depression got really bad after I left that job. Your memes were the only thing that made me smile some days. I’d read them in group therapy. Saved every single one. They kept me going” I sat at my desk crying. Had no idea she was struggling. No idea those stupid memes mattered. “Why didn’t you tell me?” She replied. “I couldn’t tell anyone. But knowing you were still thinking of me. Still trying to make me laugh. It helped more than you know” We meet for coffee now. Once a month. She’s doing better. Showed me her phone. Folder labeled “Hope.” Every meme I sent. Hundreds of them. “On bad days I scroll through these. Remind myself someone cared enough to keep trying.” I still send memes. But now she responds. And now I know they matter more than I thought. —Jake M., Texas

Words can’t fully describe how grateful I am for the last 5 years…what a journey🥹 2021 -Got married 2022 -Moved to Canada 2023 -Welcomed our first baby 2024 -Bought our first home 2025 -Welcomed our second baby 2026 -Became Canadian citizens 🇨🇦 God, THANK YOU🙏🥰

Spend the day with me making some orders. Cut and edited into 3 minutes 😂😂 plus sound on I did not video every part of the production process coz I got super busy and tired😂 But I hope you enjoy this short clip.

My daughter texted me from a party: “Mom, do we still have ice cream at home?” We don’t. That’s the code. “Ice cream” means: come get me right now. “Cookies” means: call me in five minutes with an excuse. “Nothing” means: I’m okay. She said ice cream. I didn’t ask questions. I didn’t text back. I just grabbed my keys and drove. When she got in the car she said quietly, “People started bringing out things I didn’t want to be around.” We drove home in silence. Every kid deserves a way out without having to explain themselves first.

my parents have been married for 19 years, together for 20. i asked them what they were doing for valentine’s and they both looked disgusted, said it’s commercial, and that they hate it. then my dad told me every year he sends her flowers, her favorite chocolates, and a card pretending to be a secret admirer, because even though they think the holiday is stupid, he wants her to have chocolate. i asked my mom about the secret admirer and she said it’s a running joke: he spends the day pretending he’s going to beat up the secret admirer, and they both know it’s him. it’s been going on for twenty years, and my mom keeps the cards. if that isn’t love, i don’t know what is