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Alright! So! For some reason I always find myself being overly inspired by the people around me. While I'm writing this, I am coming to accept that this might be another form of peer pressure. Well, the right kind of peer pressure. So my friend from work is an avid reader, and she challenged her self to read 50 books this year. Not 1 not 5 but a whole 50. WHO YOU KNOW READS 50 BOOKS A YEAR? I'LL WAIT! I stan a well-read queen! I was, and I still am impressed. At the beginning of the year, I had a goal to read more. You know your girl was thinking a cool three books or something. I had just purchased the Alchemist, Auntie Michelle's book had been dropped, and the Slumflower had blessed us with a gem. There it is! My three books for the year 2019. In a conversation about books with the girls one lunch break, another friend shared that she wanted to read more this year and was trying to read at least 10 books this year. Another friend who is on 30 book challenge (Anoth

DISCLAIMER: This is a personal opinion I have always had a problem with people who posted their report cards on social media. Now don't get me wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong with showing the world how hard you have worked for something. However after every semester, whenever these screenshots flooded my social media timelines, I cringe. To overshare means to " reveal an inappropriate amount of detail about one's personal life. " Growing up in a very superstitious African household, I learned very early that no one must know what you are doing because not everyone wants the best for you. It was definitely more dramatic. I think the exact words were "the witches in the village are watching so be careful." If you are African or Ghanaian you know exactly what I am talking about. This has stuck with me all my life (the less dramatic version) so I am very particular about what I put on my social media. My thoughts are all over the place a

For all the wrong reasons, I did stuff! No not the kind of stuff you are thinking about. For the resume, for acceptance, for this girl, for this boy, and for FEAR. Maybe the title of this post should be fear. But no. Not that I don't like to do the "stuff" I speak of. I do! I really do! I love to love! I love to give! I love to help, to share, to blog, to create. But then when everything begins to feel like work and some unnecessary pressure from somewhere falls on you, your passion, my passion goes down hill. Why? Why did I let it get this far? FEAR. Not this word again. Yes FEAR.  We do things, things we already love to do, because we let the world tell us that to be accepted, to prosper, to succeed, we have to do them. These same things that we were doing in the first place. The difference is this time they are not telling us to do something we don't do. However, we stop doing it because we love it and start doing it because we fear and then we start doubting ou

Hello lovely people, So today we are talking about talent !! Wooohooo ! I admire talent! I enjoy seeing people do good and great things with the gifts they have. We the youth especially.... I appreciate every form of art ! So lets talk about photography (a form of art).... Gone are the days we wore our Christmas dresses to church and stood by some flowers and released our last poses.... ( shoutout to Brother Christian the photooo at Burma Camp)... Now it is all HD XD! Now I don't even need to release my last Christmas dress. Yes now we use DSLR Cameras.... those cameras are so good right  ?? WRONG! It is the person behind the camera. He/she must know which angle to stand, whether the lighting is enough etc.... and ooo who will press the button So meet my friend behind the camera..... Clifford Nana Yaw Osei-wusu popularly known as Afriyie of AfriyiePhotography Afriyie is an economics student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Yes! He is not st