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To Hell With You!

18 Aug

I’m aiming for something very promising. Every time I fantasize having it and I start getting excited, something tells me not to be too hopeful, that it could go either North or South. Then I tame my excitement, I put a leash on my positive energy, I restrain my imagination till all I’m left with is a half-baked confidence pie.

So yesterday when my fantasies were prepping for another electrifying trip, the reminder returned, and this is what I told it; to hell with you!

So on behalf of everyone with a hope and an expectation, but has a nagging reminder of the possibility of it not actualizing, this’ our anthem, our doubt repellent!

 

To hell with you!

You obnoxious reminder of the possibility of failure,

To hell with you.

You party pooper, fun destroyer,

You pot of cold water,

Pouring yourself over my heated, zealous body

To hell with you.

 

You wave of discouragement

Masquerading as a reality check,

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The Beauty of Dreaming From A 3rd World Country

01 Mar

I have a thought; they call African countries ‘3rd world countries.’ As derogatory as the name may sound, it tells the truth to the extent that we are behind in many things. Like infrastructural development, GDP growth, movie making, technological advancement, military sophistication etc.

You can choose to dwell on the negative connotations the tag comes with. I don’t. I see such a great advantage in being in a third world country. Let me explain;

If you were watching a match that was played three months back, and cataloged in books and newspapers and you had the chance to bet on which team was going to win and why, wouldn’t you be in the perfect position to become a millionaire?

If you know tomorrow’s lottery numbers for sure, wouldn’t that be an advantage? My point is if we are pages (or at worst chapters) behind our European, Asian and American brothers, aren’t we more advantaged because of the chance to study trends and learn from their successes and failures? Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Living On Borrowed Time

21 Dec

When you own something, you determine exactly what happens to it. How it spends its days and nights, winters and summers. It’s your call every second of the way. It’s your baby anytime every day. But it’s not like that with life…shit happens. And the decision to either smear it all over ourselves, or grab some dettol and smell fresh afresh, that’s what we own…not life. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Just Do It- stuck in imaginary mode.

30 Nov

There’s us, as we are now, then there’s a life we day dream about. In it we’re world-acclaimed doctors, super heroes –friends with Batman & Robin-, authorities in finance or the oil & gas industry, best seller novelists et al. We drive porches, support worthy causes, write 6 figure cheques without flinching, come home to the most stunning spouse and gifted children and the world celebrates us.

The hard part isn’t that we aren’t living it yet, or dunno if we ever will, it’s that whenever we watch our favorite movies or flip through celebrity magazines, we see our lives being lived by strangers on a movie set or glossy page. So it makes a lot of sense to ask; why the heck aren’t we doing it? Why aren’t we living it? Why are we still stuck in imaginary mode???!!!! Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Goldin News!! Introducing; Gertrude Amoah

20 May

Today’s guest blogger is a dear friend of mine. But for her numerous calls, great deal of support  and pressure to put a website together, Goldinwords might just have been a great idea in my mind still.

There’s a verse in a poem I wrote that says; “every time I see you, I look for colorful ribbons and the cute box you must have come out of, because you are nothing less than a gift.” That easily applies to Trudy- especially as a writer, because there’s always a gift in her pieces; a gift of wisdom, gift of soothing counsel or one of soft rebuke, it doesn’t really matter, she’s simply gifted!

What distinguishes in my opinion is the rare level of compassion that drives her to write- it shows in her work, because you can practically feel the emotion that the piece was written with. So I’m hoping that this’ll be the first of many many times that Gertrude Amoah will agree to give her own website Panoramablaze (u shd check it out) a break, and feature here on Goldinwords. Thank you Trudy.

 
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