Posts by pearly

Invalidating the truth

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Picture a world in which we all shared the same ideas. A world in which we all thought the same way, shared the same views and had the same experiences. I believe this will inevitably lead us to having the same style, speech pattern and way too many similarities with no distinctive features at all, except perhaps our physical experience. I’m beginning to guess by now that you are not quite fond of that imagination. We clearly don’t aspire to being the same people all over the globe. We don’t… Read More

It is okay to re-express.

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Nigerians would say, “follow who know road”, Cameroonians will say “are you the first to discover it?”(I know that is a question, not a statement, but that’s how my country works), while a proper English man would say, “no need re-inventing the wheel”. Often times in life, we have that urge to be a groundbreaker in our different spheres, succeed in doing what someone has never done before. We want to be the person whose footprint is marked in the sands of time because we did something no one else… Read More

Fearless?

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Relationships are all about interests. Not just self-interests, it could be common interests or even selfless interests, point is, there is an interest. We share, exchange, mooch off one another and so it goes. But what is it we want most from a relationship? Be it friendship or otherwise? Why do we keep indulging in making such bonds that don’t always end well for us? What is it we are looking for? My answer won’t be love, I mean the element of interest fills that gap for us. I would… Read More

Humans don’t come with User Manuals… But I guess you knew that already.

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So, usually when you purchase an object, especially the brand new ones, not second hand stuff, they come all packaged with pictures of the object on the package and a neat user manual written in at least 2 languages. On my side of the globe it’s usually written in English and French or English and Chinese. If you aim to use the product properly and obtain maximum satisfaction as intended by the manufacturer, you have to read the user manual or watch a YouTube video on it like I do…. Read More

Whose Looking Glass is it?

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It's a world filled with so much, don't get stuck with one.

“Mirror mirror on the wall, tell me who is the most beautiful woman in all the kingdom?” “It’s you my queen.” Watching Snow White growing up, besides the fact that I didn’t like her wicked stepmother, I often wondered why a wicked woman would want a mirror’s approval on how she looked whereas she could have anyone give her any answer she wanted. So till date I don’t have an answer, just a hypothesis which you will be able to deduce by the end of this write-up. After my two… Read More

Time

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“Don’t be late”, “wake up early”, “being on time sends out a good image”, “we’re running out of time”, “I’ve got a lot of time ahead of me”. All of which are statements we heard on the loop while growing up or still hear today, we also tell them to others, especially those younger than us, hoping to make them probably not miss out as much as we did on things to which time was of the essence. What is time? Is it that 24hour frame we get out of… Read More

It’s always been a part of us, like it’s there and yet it isn’t.

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It’s always been a part of us, like it’s there and yet it isn’t. Sort of like the air we breathe since we move with it everyday and yet we hope it doesn’t take a step without letting us know. Even when it warns us it’s coming we still find ourselves hoping and praying it does not keep its promises. hold on, are we not the ones being a little too obsessive and mean? Wanting to leave it jobless and purposeless? Wanting more time though we’ve done little or no… Read More

Days come and go – book review

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4 days of devouring pages, 360 pages of so many emotions, the reason why reading attracted and seduced me is not missed out in Boum’s recent work. As always, she never fails to give you some of that history you won’t find much on in libraries (this is her first work I’m reading, just read reviews of the others), the kind of history you relate to and feel part of. A fine combination of prose and poetry and as the French say « vous ne viendrez pas à bout de… Read More

We are all replacements

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It’s a big wide world,some are being born, others are dying. Some are having the time of their lives and others are cloaked by a dark cloud of depression and grim happenings surrounding them. Well we are all characters on stage which can be killed off at anytime and the play will go on, rest assured you’ll be forgotten quickly by some, after a while by others and unforgettable to a few. Life is an long running sort of eternal play with a multitude of mortal characters. The only eternal… Read More