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How you can avoid life's dip ( a believer's perspective)

We have often heard that if we want to be wise, we should read the book of proverbs. Have you read this book of the bible, or do you still find it puzzling? Growing up, I learned that experts analyze a man's entire life using a bell curve ' n '. Meaning that there would be a time where you have in abundance, and the time it all begins to diminish. In economics, we called the highest part the boom, and in crypto trading, the lowest part of the trough is called the dip. Get it? Now that you get the picture I am trying to paint, let us go a little deeper. I would ask myself confusing questions like why can't there be a continuous progression? It's either you had a lot then go broke at the later part of your life, or struggle throughout productive years of your life and enjoy the fruits for a short period. so there is always going to be a dip! I'm sorry but, Nollywood movies and the people around me didn't help my case. Recently, I got into the book of Proverbs ...

Building a relationship III (failed again?)

Most of my posts are spontaneous, I just build on a thought, experience, and lesson learned. This one might not mean anything to you now, but you must pause for a moment and savour the lesson because we might all be wired differently, but we are a piece of the same thing. Backstory Some years back, one of those regular slow evenings. I sat with my mum, sister, and our neighbour who happens to be my dear friend. We started having an intense argument about something I cannot vividly remember all through, except for the fact that it was about a boy, and I kept screaming “I no go fit do am!”. It was about morality and it was something I haven't even come to face with, so I had zero experience but I kept talking my sister down with those words. Ladies and gentlemen, it was still in the same year, just a couple of months after, I was faced with that rock and your sister came falling effortlessly. Worse was the fact that I could remember that day, my mannerism, and my sister's calm ar...