"Dear Bawse, discomfort is the price you pay for crucial life lessons" All discomfort should be leading you towards achieving your goal. Don't let your pain be spent ineffectively. Let every

"Don’t tell people too much about yourself, especially your weaknesses. You owe it to no one. It's your choice what to release about yourself, how and why." Too often as girls, as women, we feel

A "bawse" is not someone who survives life, its someone who conquers it.

If you are like most people, then you may have failed an exam because you just didn’t check your work one last time before submitting your paper, or maybe you lost that interview because you misspelt the

Dear African Parents, let your kids feel free to express themselves with you, let them know it's okay to bring their friends home to meet their parents, let them know it's okay to mingle with other members

Ever wondered why men are generally more confident than women? It's because the boys from a younger age are allowed to go out into the world and confront society. Traditionally , they are the ones who

He used to be my obsession. He'd take me on exciting new adventures to enthralling new places, make me feel all sorts of emotions. He'd take me by the hand and we’d sneak out in the middle of the night,

Do I really want a website? That’s probably the question so many of you are still asking yourselves every time you see one of those ads about getting the perfect website, or when one of your friend sends

This goes mostly to our African parents. You don’t solve a problem by avoiding it or pretending it doesn’t exist. You solve it by confronting and addressing it. Granted, parents fear for the safety of

I found this (poem?) written in one of my school books while going through my old stuff yesterday. I’d scribbled it a couple of years back when I was just a freshman, probably during one of those really

I know, I know! You’re probably thinking, how can having no electricity for two days be fun?? Apart from the fact that this is a common occurrence around where I’m from, being cut out from the rest of

Happiness is not achieved. Happiness is not attained. Happiness is created. Happiness is a choice to filter our perception of everything that happens in our consciousness, a choice to learn from the shitty

The bliss of an epiphany, the moment when your mind leaves the naive murky depths of obscurity, into the incandescent planes of lucidity. In that moment, you see glaringly, for the first time, not what

I love poetry, and although I’ve never been quite good at writing it, I do find it a fulfilling an magical way of expression. I wrote this short poem some time back when I was as stupidly in love as they

I grew up in a small village called Banso. Banso is in the North West Region of Cameroon, Central Africa. In my village, the main source of living was farming, so most of my childhood days were spent on

I heard about Steemit last month from my friend, @mr-green. He told me about this incredible platform that is just like Facebook, only better. You get paid for crating posts, as well as liking and commenting

Hello everyone, my name is Gina .I go by a number of labels: Young woman, accountant, model, shea butter enthusiast, business developer, Tv entertainment enthusiast, crazy person, SBNR, etc.), but I prefer