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There is this particular saying that you don’t know the value of what you have until you lose it. So I was wondering, is it that we don’t know the value or we do but simply take it for granted or is it both? Anyone with gold might know its worth and yet decides to play with it belongs to the second category, such person took it for granted. Now let’s take a deeper look at it. How do you know the value of something when it has already been lost? Definitely someone must have told you its worth when you had it or after you lost it or you simply felt its impact because you no longer have it. So if someone has already told its worth when you had it can we say you didn’t know the value? Hell no, that means you belongs to the second category. You knew it ’cause someone told you yet took it for granted or was it taken from you? It makes no difference even if it was. Now, to the first category. Those that lost something due to ignorance of it. It make little or no difference, the point i...

My younger sister came home from school one day and she was reciting a poem. She was so happy reciting it, in fact, she recited it all day. I later discovered her teacher had told her and her classmates that they all should be happy because they deserved it. Here’s the poem: “Happiness is a good commodity The more you give The more you have Happiness” Do we all deserve to be happy? Is happiness for each and every one of us? I’ve been asking myself these questions recently and I finally found answers to it. Well, my answer is YES. Yes we do. We all deserve to be happy and happiness is for everyone irrespective of your age, status and gender. Your past doesn’t matter, you deserve to be happy. Now and forever. “Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of your life that you expect it to always be there, because you can’t remember a time in your life when it wasn’t. But then one day you feel something else, something that feels wrong, only because it’s so unfamiliar. And in that...

You ever wonder how long it takes to change your life? What measure of time is enough to be life-altering? Is it six years, like high school? Four years, like university? One year? A sixteen-week semester? Can your life change in a month, a week or a single day? Do you ever wonder if you make the moments in your life or if the moments in your life make you? Haley James Scott asked her class a question in One Tree Hill 5x02 and it stroked me, so here I am asking you the same. Do you understand that the rest of your life is being shaped right now? Well, I hate to tell you, the rest of your life is a long time and whether you like it or not, it’s being shaped right now. Where are you presently? What’s the situation like with you? Are you going to allow your present define/affect your future? Where do you see yourself in the next five years? Have your future been mapped out? By you or by someone else? What are those things you see yourself doing? Where do you see yourself doing it...