METIENNE

Experience and time are the best teachers. Turns out the older we grow the clearer we understand and differentiate between what matters and what doesn't. The differences between worthy and unworthy, useful and useless, important and not important become more meaningful. So several years ago I would lose an item say a phone, book, bag, pen etc. and that would literally throw me off balance and get me worked up for days. Cursing became the order of the day to the extent that I would waste much time playing detective and looking for the culprit in God knows which ways. Today I know too well things come and go in one way or the other. As long as its gone there is no point getting all sad because however sad I get, the emotions never bring those items back. The best way to handle such situations is to understand nothing is permanent, not even life. Better things are coming and even those shall leave in whichever way, positive or negative. About a year or so ago I would get so p...

The best thing that ever happened to me in my current age bracket is realizing and internalizing the fact that no one is perfect, neither am I. you will hear so much of the "not being perfect" statement in here, bare with me. Yes I am not perfect, neither are you. when  you think about it carefully you start to understand why all people, white and black, big and small, tall and short, bright or slow...name them; have something to bring to the table, something much more important than how they look like.  when you realize you probably have bigger ears than you would ask for or maybe shorter toes than you would wish to have; you also get to understand you may not be perfect but you are as beautiful as you wish to think. The advantage of knowing you have flaws is that it makes you accept people around you for who they are and not what they look like according to you. Truth of the matter is those people who make friends on the basis of looks, size, physic or material...

Amazing how being positive generally attracts a full package of positive outcomes in your life. It is a reality. From the experiences I have had the many yet very few years I have lived, I know too well that having a positive mind set makes life better and outcomes of life's activities more fulfilling. Having a positive mind set means complaining less. We can never have a perfect life or perfect people around us neither can we have perfect services being offered by human beings or machines. We are not perfect ourselves. It is therefore good for your soul to practice complaining less regardless of the situations we are faced with. Instead we should all learn to appreciate more. Appreciate the little nice things done or said to you, it gives the giver motivation to keep doing good. The services offered will keep getting better and eventually come close to perfection. On the other hand, when you keep complaining there is that bad taste that always lingers around. You will nev...