Costly Oma

People genuinely make effort towards things they want except for children. Or should I say, mature people genuinely take steps towards things they want except for children? I've always told people that, one of the major differences between a child and an adult is in how a child lets people or someone begs them or cajole them to do things that will even benefit them the most. A true adult knows what is good for them and take the extra step to get things done for themselves without anyone pushing them even when the task is not so pleasant. To buttress my point, I cannot bring this to a conclusion if I don't pen down a lesson I got in this line.  It was a story of a young girl and a young man. Some years ago, a particular young man was regular in a particular congregation. Somehow, he sees himself as a young man who is ready to get a wife so, he opted to kick-start something with someone in the same congregation, and with how they were taught such things should start. In this cong...

Doesn’t it surprise us most times when people who seem to be in love, for the most part, break up eventually or announce their breakup? Most of us used to be surprised or act surprised when we see people break up or when we come to the point of breakup in our relationships. I often wonder when people seem surprised when their relationships come to an end. I think that the end of any relationship starts somewhere. I think that signs of breakups in a relationship start from somewhere. I believe that breakups start long ago before it happens. And I believe that the signs have always been there. And often, I wonder, is it that we were blinded or we just chose to be blinded? I often say it does not matter whether we take the day to be night or the night to be the day, the day or the night is what it is and will always be what it is. No matter what we believe or what we want to believe, we can hardly change a natural phenomenon. So, this brings us to the question: when does a breakup start i...