highlights & lowlights
food for thought and after.
when you reflect on this amazing line by Alex Elle it makes you wrestle with the idea that even though
youāve known some people for years and a little distance floods the communication channel and sweeps the relationship down the drain.
could be a roommate from college turned into a friend or worseāa bestie, whom you experienced so much of life together, just becomes a stranger after distance gets in the way. And other times, not even distanceābut like an earthquake, itās just a natural disaster.
perhaps youāre reading this and someone comes to mind and idea of reaching out to them flashes in your headāplease donāt! let the dead rest.
just kidding.
please reach out
or not.
i love when someone forces me to confront the duality of life.
or better still, when someone forces me to confrontāas Jon Bellionās studio debut album puts it; āThe Human Conditionā
Stanley Fritz would be the first to admit his.
And maybe yours isnāt drake, as Falz puts it in his Song āHypocriteā maybe itās you āforming gentleman when youāre with your pals but you go home to beat your wife to stuporā
or maybe itās you reposting ābe kind, everyone is fighting battles,ā while quietly resenting anyone whose battle spills into your day.
or maybe itās you preaching discipline and consistency online, while privately abandoning every promise you make to yourself by Wednesday.
or maybe itās you posting long threads about accountability and growth, but the moment someone calls you out, you call them ānegativeā and disappear behind silence.
whatever the case maybe, look in your mirror before heading out today.
that moment when you scream āSOMEONE GETS ME!ā
thatās exactly how i felt reading this by Hamid Saraj | Libertology.
although gym at 3pm on Monday? thatās never happening on this side. I have better ways to spend my Monday evenings that donāt evolve preparing for war.
you might be fooled into thinking this is about houses. But the author is letting us know our first sense of a home is our body.
itās where we first learn to be comfortable in itās skin.
the house, on the other hand, is the guy upstairs that helps us to think, and build out the adjacent buildings.
while the adjacent buildings are the open tabs in the house; memories, attachments, people, habits, opened tabs, architectural plans, etc.
the downside of this is that the very people you repress it for, are the reason the calling was gifted to you.
iām a big fan of first liners especially for a book.
it needs to hit like the first sip of a very HOT dark roast coffee that burns the tongue.
my friend (Busayo), in her new book (Unveiled) led with this line and honestly, you have no idea who this "Tamiloreā person is but I can already imagine but the way the author refers to her we have an idea she has cut-my-cloth-more-than-my-size type of taste.
whatever that image paints in your head of someone who would go above & beyond to dressed in her wedding gown dripping of diamonds.
please donāt be like Tamilore. I beg you. Cut your cloth to fit.
so honeymoon doesnāt become the first meeting with your creditors.
the fact that weāve found a way to replace commas with full stops is honestly wild to me. Iām sure all my English teachers back then would never have seen this coming. And yeah, I know exactly where this influence is coming from, but Iāll leave that unnamed for now. Still, itās clearly shaped how people write today. This shift where full stops step in where commas used to live.
And to be fair, full stops hit harder. They punch. A comma softens the landing. A full stop makes you stop. It forces the reader to pause and sit with the weight of what was just said.
take something like āno smoking. no reception. no wedding dress.ā If you swap those full stops for commas, the effect disappears. It turns into a list. Neat. Polite. Easy to skim. With full stops, each phrase stands alone. Each one feels deliberate. And Final.
itās funny how a tiny mark on the page can completely change the emotional temperature of a sentence.
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Woah, thanks for letting us into your head like this. I love how I feel like a fly on the wall in your lounge while reading this.
Bro, you have such a collection of fantastic quotes and life lessons. Thank you for including me in this!