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My Aunt in; My Mind’s Eyes

Post author:sherryfah2@gmail.com
Post published:January 20, 2019
Post category:Parenting Random Thought
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My parents had many distant relatives most of whom I couldn’t trace their lineage on our family tree. There were quite a large number of aunties, uncles, cousins we couldn’t really fit into the picture. To us they were family and it had to stay that way.

I was around 8 when a distant elderly cousin of my dad visited. She lived with her daughter in a different part of the country. She stayed for a few days, however, she asked my parents if I could come with her to spend the rest of the summer holiday with her grandchildren when she was ready to leave.

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The Choices We Made

Post author:sherryfah2@gmail.com
Post published:January 7, 2019
Post category:Lifestyles Random Thought
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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.

Post author:sherryfah2@gmail.com
Post published:September 30, 2018
Post category:Lifestyles Random Thought
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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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