Sadness coming over you...just like the waves Sometimes lapping over you gently and quickly ebbing away Sometimes hitting you in quick successions, breaking violently over you Sometimes you go under, but you quickly come up again Sometimes even when you're down, it keeps hitting you. Pushing you deeper and deeper until you don't even know … Continue reading Sadness…just like the waves

When you think about traveling, you think of new destinations, places you've never been to...or places that you have been to, but are now viewing through the different perspectives that your life experiences have given you. You are excited before the journey because you have so many expectations of things to look forward to...what are … Continue reading My favourite way to travel…

...I remember how we met...well not exactly, but it was on Facebook. You'd sent me a friend request. We had no mutual friends, and you didn't have a picture of yourself. Typically, I'd decline such requests, but something made me accept yours. I'll say it was destiny; that I'm thankful for. We got chatting...you were … Continue reading They say time heals all…

...there you are, trying to forget the silly mistakes of your past, you're already patting yourself on the back for how well you're doing...then slyly, coming from a place you never even expected, it's there...you stare and it's staring right back at you... Awww man! I thought we were done with all this? *facepalm* What's … Continue reading It’s a small world after all…

When I was an undergrad, I had this English professor that gave us readings and asked us to look up words we didn't know the definition of. The first time he gave us the assignment, I didn't look up any words. I'm a native English speaker and because I understood what the reading was about, … Continue reading YLYL: Desuetude

I was doing wall sits this morning (5 sets of 1-minute each) and of course, random thoughts were going through my head...what else do you do when your thigh muscles feel like jelly? What stuck out was a collection of random behavioral patterns that are so inherently Nigerian, that they are normal to us. It … Continue reading You’re Nigerian…

I’m a late eighties baby and growing up, in my view of working out, there was a clear distinction between the sexes. There were the muscle men; men like the Terminator aka Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rocky aka Sylvester Stallone, and Fabio, the man on the cover of all the romance novels, all with biceps that looked … Continue reading Strength Training Myths

#fitfam #fitnation #fitness…you’ve probably seen those hashtags and rolled your eyes at them. Or maybe your curiosity got the best of you and you checked it out, only for you to be tensioned with all the sculpted and toned men and women that look like they have workouts for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  You once … Continue reading #FitFam: To be or not to be?