When You’re Left With No Other Option.

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I had missed two weeks of lectures and assignments with no prospect of hope. My mum had tried everything she could, but couldn’t get me the cash I needed. The sales weren’t forthcoming and it was difficult to get help.

The previous semester was a total shame for me as I had to feed off friends at school. I had managed well without the situation escalating. Needless to say, none of my friends at school knew how deeply unhappy I sometimes became due to my needs.

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The Choices We Made

We’ve all made choices in life. Some were influenced by forces around us, some out of sheer curiosities. Some of the choices would have been made by chance or ways of conforming to norms. Whatever decision you must have made, you had the ability and the preference to choose.

Our entire life is made up of an infinite amount of decisions. The choice, such as what to eat or what to wear to a particular occasion are small and slightly impactful, but, life-changing decisions are tough to make.

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Somewhere, In The Quietness Of My Mind.

Somewhere in the quietness of my mind, I remembered how I planned my life. The life I planned was a far cry from what I live right now. I planned a life free from worries and frivolities of now.

I was young and free when I had my life planned ahead of me. I was a Journalist in my planned life. Marriage was never part of it. I owned mansions in my planned life.

Children were never part of it, despite my love for little children, I didn’t see any from my loin. I was a career woman whose trade took to any part of the world, to whom children would be a hindrance.

I planned a life far from what I experience as a child. A life free from poverty and maltreatment. I never planned to fall in love, this was for the weak and helpless. I grew up seeing maltreatment from menfolk and I planned never to be a victim.

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