AS LITERAL AS IT GETS

It's been more than a minute. I hope you have always found a reason to smile regardless of what storm you have had to weather 😀. Maybe you have, maybe you haven't, here's a reminder tho; Smile beautiful one, the world needs more of your magic.  Have you always believed in yourself, your power, your strength, even when the odds are clearly stacked against you or are you crazy, like me. Little miss "I can't" , "I could never'. Every other person around you could each come up with a 100 reasons why you are the perfect one for the role, or why you will excel beautifully at that project, or why you, my dear are doing amazing at that job, but you are especially gifted at coming up with a million reasons for each 100 why "it could never be you". Like "can't you guys see it's IMPOSSIBLE!"  I'm not going to ask you to BELIEVE!, to GIVE YOURSELF SOME CREDIT! even though you clearly need to but I agree it's going ...

For as long as I've come to know Rahmat, she's been a settler👍. This spanned every aspect of my life. You had plans to go out and you suddenly cancel, she's got no issues. There's only one piece of cake left and the both of you want it, she's fine with not having it. I follow rules to the latter because I really didn't see beyond boundaries and tbh I dared not look beyond.  I had convinced myself that little is just enough and oh boy did I become super comfortable that even the tiniest of gestures outside what I know as the standard seemed extra and unnecessary. So I am very used to not going the extra mile for anything, I go with whatever falls on my plate and that's it. " You mean they are serving a three course meal over there? wow, good for them I'll just eat my jollof rice 😌 ". I had translated this to being "humble" and "content" and even used to flex that whenever I go shopping I don't walk the entir...