Let Your Heart Decides.

I sat down to watch one of Disney’s all-time blockbuster Aladdin with the kids. As we watched, a line from the lyric stuck to me. Mind you, this wasn’t my first time seeing Aladdin, but somehow my head wove around the words and I was lost in its powerful hemispheral.

As Aladdin and his newly found love explored the beauty of nature on the magic carpet gasping in the freedom they just discovered, I wondered what it really means to let your heart decides. Let your heart decides.

Hear me out, I wasn’t talking about the butterfly the wretched Aladdin had in his stomach when he met the princess or the trials lurking above their love. Oh no, far from it. I was deeply motivated by the heart and its desires, what it chooses and how it happens.

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What Do You Really Want?

A Friend For Life

A few days ago, I got fixated on an article, it must have been the topic that got me hooked, I sank deeply in the softness of my pillow savaging the pleasure this good piece offered.

At the end of this article, I became confused. Not because the writing wasn’t good enough. No. It was one of the best writing I read in weeks. However, I was troubled with the question the writer threw at me at the end.

I have always known what I wanted in life, or so I thought. Things don’t usually land on my plate, somehow I cracked on with the thornsspines, and prickles of life.

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The slum I grew up in.

Picture of my niece

” You live in a slum”. My friend suddenly blurted out as I walked her home. I looked at her confused not knowing what to say and then she said it again, ” Sheri, you live in a slum”, this time with disgust expression.

It was her first time at my house, what she found out about me was below her expectation. She couldn’t merge my personality with the reality of where I live. The two were contrasting episodes with a wide gap in between.

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