I kept trying to center myself but something always flipped.
Ogenna
This year has been grand; it has had its downs and lows but I loved every single minute of it.
In pursuit of valydation…
I had started to live from one set of applause to the next, one social media “validation” to the next, and when it didn’t come fast enough, I questioned myself, my existence, my experience, I questioned everything.
Dusk: Lade
Wow. What a year! I don’t set out to write these things with my lesson from the year, but somehow, there’s always something that just stands out for me. Last year, it…
Dusk: Tobiloba
DECEMBER 30, 2016. Reading the Stories NG posts for the year and I marvelled at how surreal it was. How did things turnaround for people ‘just like that’? I wished terribly that…
Day 26: Deola Shomo
Today, I am privileged to see what it’s like to be 29 even though it feels like I have been an adult forever. But if there is one thing I am grateful…
Day 25: Justin
The cold metal touched my temple, but I knew it was there before I even felt the frigid bite. Naturally, I kept walking. The man walking beside me (same fella with the…
Dusk: Farida
January. Uncertainty was dust in my eyes. I’m sitting in a bus, heading NorthWest, headed towards 3 weeks of torture. My spirit is caged, mornings are dark, nights are cold and…
Day 22: Olamide
12am January 1st 2017, Happy New Year. Olamide was crying. My relationship had ended two days before and I was just so frigging tired of everything -hence the tears. Crying is therapeutic…
Day 19: Ized
Ever had a year so amazing, you worry about talking about it? Especially because your default mode is usually: “Hello everybody, Ized’s here again, something just happen right now…” Something is…