When Friends Get Jealous

Dear friends, don’t get jealous of people when they start to move ahead in life. If things are not working out for you, learn some new skills. If you are 30 yrs old and older, you are from my generation where you learned that if you study hard and get a degree life is set for you. Unfortunately modern times and CoVid-19 have shown us this is not true. Many of us have to learn new skills to survive in these new times. Don’t give up on your degree just yet, how about you find creative ways to  use your degree that your parents sold their house and land and the cow 🐄 and two goats 🐐 🐐 for you to get and apply your knowledge to the new unique situations that 2020 has thrown our way. Sometimes you have to swallow pride and be willing to try something new...

Black Lives Matter

I have lost a very close friend because of what I post on Facebook. Unfortunately that friend will never understand my struggles and will never understand unless that friend walks in my shoes. Sorry to see you go dear friend. Hope one day you will understand. I have to keep posting about racial injustice because that has been my reality. Facebook is a free platform to reach the world and so I have to use it to educate as many people as possible. If one person learns something new from my Facebook page, my mission is accomplished.

True Love

I saw this beautiful picture on Instagram so I had to share it! I still believe in true love, marriage and happily ever after! The reason I do is because for a part of my life shortly after my mother’s death, I was raised by a strong black couple, a Pastor and his wife who displayed true love in every single aspect of their lives. So I believe there ARE good black men and since I have witnessed true love first hand, I know how a man who loves his wife treats her and so I have high expectations and standards and I will settle for nothing less. AND I know a REAL MAN knows how to treat his wife like a QUEEN so if I am in a relationship and that type of LOVE and RESPECT is not there, it’s time for me to GO!

Steven Covey died at 79

My condolences to the family of Stephen Covey. I read  the 


"The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"  and it 


changed my whole perspective on how I view life. He was

truly a remarkable individual and  we are grateful for his 

contribution to shaping the minds of people all over the


 world.

Meeting Family on Facebook

If someone else had told me I would meet most of my family on facebook I would have laughed them to scorn. But it is just amazing how I keep meeting new family on facebook! The amazing thing is my family features are so strong it is just hard to deny the resemblance. And I keep having friend requests from long lost cousins who look just like me! Amazing! My father spent most of my childhood hiding me from my mom's family and from his own family. Why? I dont know. Facebook really brings the world together. Facebook also brings all the stuff your parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, grandaunts, granduncles were doing in the dark...to light! No longer do you have to wait for the next funeral to meet long lost cousins. Hopefully you wont find out that the partner you were planning to marry (because both of you had soooo much in common...) is really your long lost cousin! And hopefully you dont find this out at your wedding ! ( wedding turns into your nightmare when family from groom's side and bride's side start saying Hello cousin so and so! Hello Uncle! Hello Aunty!) Anyway, whatever the critics may say, facebook is amazing. (This coming for someone who used to be afraid of facebook). More on this to come! Stay tuned!

It's time to take a break when...

It's time to take a break when...you recognize bacteria faster than your friends...even in daylight..

Some of the things i take for granted

I was listening to this radio program where they were talking about these Sudanese mothers fleeing their homes and having to cross the desert, some walking across the desert for 18 days or more, mothers forced to leave their kids behind in the desert because the kids are too weak to continue the journey, can you imagine being a mother and having to choose which kid to leave behind in the desert because you are weak also and cant carry all of them, and in order to save the others you have to leave one behind...it makes me think about the things i take for granted...like freedom, and food to eat, and a place to live...and freedom

I woke up this morning

I woke up this morning
I had health
I had strength
I was in my right mind
I had food to eat
I had clothes to wear
I had shelter
I had people who cared for me
Thank you God for all your blessings!

Being a Leader

Leadership is not easy. There are people who will like you for what you are doing, and some people decide that they dont like you. But you cant please everyone, you just have to remember why you became a leader, and remain committed to your cause.

Thank You

Thank you to ALL my friends for everything you've done for me during this year.
I am grateful to all for all the little things that you do that may seem insignificant but they mean a lot to me.
For:
the time you called, texted, messaged, facebooked or emailed me just to say "hello nichole how are you doing?"
the time you shared a smile with me
the time you spent hours on the phone sharing your thoughts, your emotions, your experiences with me,
the time you shared a hug with me,
the time you shared a joke with me
the time you took out of your busy schedule to have lunch, dinner or coffee with me
the time you invited me to a movie (even if i couldnt make it, it shows you were thinking of me)
the time you encouraged me
the time you motivated me
the time you inspired me
and all the other things you did for me that i dont have space to write.

THANK YOU!!!

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is hard. But it is something I have to do. Because when we dont forgive. We suffer more than the person who our anger is directed towards.

I Forgive you.

I saw this and i had to share it

i saw this on a statue at TMC and i wanted to share it

"Be like the bird
Halting in his flight
On limb too slight
Feel it give way beneath him
Yet sings
Knowing he hath wings

- Victor Hugo

This is so powerful and it has so much meaning to me! How I interpret it is that even when it feels like the ground is falling away beneath you, you should still be positive and confident and sing! because you have wings! you have the ability, all the tools, everything you need inside you to lift yourself out of any situation! you have wings! you have WINGS!!! so FLY!!! fly as high as the birds! Soar like the eagles! (So if no one told you this before, this guy Victor Hugo, wanted so much to tell you! and i am sharing it with you now!) so when you feel depressed remember the bird! and lift up your voice AND SING!!!

Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it

Some people want to be rich. And they work all their lives to attain these riches. But when they become rich, their riches eat away at their soul. Money and over-indulgence in material things take over their life and their life is destroyed. Money is important for living, but we should be careful that we dont value money more than life itself. So be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.