✨La vita✨

It is said that forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself, but again, isn't it the hardest thing to do? But who said we shouldn't do hard things? Why should it be more easier to forgive others than ourselves?  We tend to think that forgiving ourselves is excusing our mistakes or forgetting the past, but it's not! When we forgive ourselves, we are just embracing our imperfect journey, we are acknowledging that we are humans, that we will stumble, that our mistakes don't define us, and that however much we may fall short, we are still worth of compassion, still worth of love, and that we deserve a fresh start. Forgiving yourself is not running away from whatever you might have done. It's a brave act of letting go of the heavy burden of guilt, shame, and regrets that you always carry around. It is a quiet, rebellion against your inner voice that always whispers how you ain't good enough, how you're such a bad person beyond repair, how you're a ...

When a friend asked me to write about friendship, I couldn’t see where to start, I didn’t know which words to use, I just felt gratitude and a smile on my face! Friends, the people we can’t do life without, I can only describe friendship as a ship carrying life, a ship full of love, laughter, lessons, hurts, and all the ups and downs one can mention. It’s a ship which will take you extra miles but the ride won’t always be smooth but it’s always worth it. The people we call bad friends? I don’t think they are actually bad because at one point or another, they made an impact on our life, be it a bad or good one, we learnt a lesson from it, and as I told you the ship is carrying life and life is a series of lessons.  It’s so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it up . ~Behdad Sami From what Sami said, friendship is then nothing but love! Since it carries life and life is all about love, my question to all of us today i...

                                  Look beyond What is love? I guess we all have different definitions depending on how we experienced it. I read somewhere that we like because but we love despite! We like because of everything good we see in a person or the good things he/she does for us but what happens when some things don’t suit well with us? What happens when some qualities are not there? When there are mistakes or when some days don’t shine brighter like others? Do we still stick to the person or we walk away? There are a lot of things that would make us walk away from the person we like, but one thing I agree with, to truly love is to love despite all those things. As a christian I’d firmly define love as 1 Cor:13, the verse truly describes it best! On dit que la beauté de l’amour c’est que chaque jour il se fait nouveau ( the beauty of love is that everyday it becomes new). Don’t just like people...

                Serenity comes with acceptance Do you ever think it would be possible for the world to keep moving if you had lost someone you cherished a lot? Even the thought of it is terrifying, thinking that life would continue is insane! Let alone a person, there are some things we hold on to and can’t bring ourselves to think about how it would be to not have them anymore! But the hard truth is we all move on eventually. Life goes on. Any kind of loss is painful depending on the attachment you had, but believe me life goes on! You grieve while others celebrate, you laugh while others cry but through it all remember that you live while others die! Not that you’re special but because it’s not your time yet, so why don’t you give life a chance? Why don’t you start afresh while you still can? Acceptance. This is the only remedy to life, what you can’t change, accept it! What time can’t heal or change, acceptance does, you learn how to move ...

Emptiness! At first when someone asked me to write about it, I couldn’t really pinpoint what kind of emptiness he meant but I knew right away it’s something we all feel to some extent, something that weighs heavily on us though it’s empty, something we can’t put into words! There’s a time in your life that seems like it’s you vs you, where you have a lot going on but can’t feel anything, where your heart and soul leave you standing! It doesn’t warn before it hits, you just feel it, and everything goes blank and quiet. Think of a time where you don’t feel neither happy nor sad, where you know something is wrong but can’t explain what it is, where you can’t feel or think of anything, that time when you don’t feel anything in the midst of everything. Emptiness is a feeling one can’t explain, and cannot avoid, it’s a big void but one that can be filled. But how to fill something that takes up so much space, something that you can’t get hold of? Let it come in, embrace it, and don’t try to ...

Campsite rule states “Leave the campsite better than when you found it” The campsite is none other than the community we live in, and yes the life rule should be none other than that of the campsite! Leave your community better than how you found it, impact people’s lives positively, make the world a better place. 🎶There’s a place in your heart and I know that it is love and this place could be much brighter than tomorrow🎶 Michael Jackson said it best! Heal the world make it a better place for you, for me and the entire human race. I read somewhere that coming from a place of genuine love, one can never lose. There surely is love in our hearts and genuine love never loses, do you ever reflect on the people you met and how they impacted your life? I’m sure there are some people we even refrain from thinking about! But are you aware that there might be people who would also not want to think of you because of how you impacted their lives? In kinyarwanda they say «usize nkuru ki i muso...