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Pacing with Times, let’s Count Them Slowly

By 09/02/2023August 9th, 2024No Comments

Written by Compassion C.S.O

Illusions are the breakaway of habitual fonts in a cyclic prognosis over our desires. It takes the brave in heart to remain in the habitation of illusions without a blink. Illusions collaborate with imagination which is the foundation for all our unseen needs. When you look into the mirror and don’t recognize what you see, take a deep breath, pat your back, and smile. Because sometimes, what you need is not to recognize yourself, but to see that you are there. Still there. Breathing. Visible. Powerful. Alive.

When you have no future, you live in the past, and you will be stuck there forever. Create your future and start living in the present. Open the door to your heart and choose love. Be kind instead of right. Remember the good times. Take responsibility for your part. Stop the judgment. Be the bigger person. Forgive the small things.

Poor communication is inherited from parents or family members, and cultivated while growing.  They never talked about feelings, they yelled. They held onto secrets because they didn’t want to make things awkward. Inside they burn and wish to throw away the cup of water they sipped from. Allowing you to sip from the same cup of water may not augur well with your hidden intentions. Break that toxic chain. Dance to the new rhythm of hope, space, and time.

When life gets hard, remember, there’s a lot of beauty left to see, tons of adventures to be had, and more love than you ever thought possible if you hang on. Being hurt is a byproduct of being human. The smartest are those who take the lessons with them so they don’t make the same mistake twice and the strongest are the ones who learn and keep living with an open heart. The most admirable people do both. Be valuable.

When you create a difference in someone’s life, you not only impact their life, you affect everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime. No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise. Ironically, when we start to get better, we also often get sad because we start to realize how much we’ve missed out on, how badly certain people failed us, and what the younger version of us deserved. Healing involves healthy grieving. No way around it. Let the ushering of 2023 come with a new frame of perception and unburdened engagements.

Dozie Ogbanu

Chidozie Compassion Ogbanu was born in Aba, popularly known as the Japan of Africa, into a Christian home, and to Igbo parents in eastern Nigeria who worked painstakingly to train him and his other three siblings in school through their small businesses. My childhood upbringing is deep-rooted in the two Igbo mantras which say “ebe onye dara ka chi ya kwaturu ya” meaning that “where one falls is where his God pushed him down,” and “Ora na azu nwa,” which literary means “it takes a whole village to raise a child.” Now, he is enrolled in postgraduate studies at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany where he lives. He is interested in: The Connecting Dot between Poverty and Prosperity of West Africa; the wider implications of multinational corporations in conjunction with the rural communities in industrializing West Africa; Welfarism and Imperialism in West Africa. He is a graduate of Education Political Science (BSc.), Imo State University Owerri, Nigeria, 2015.

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