Realms of Life

 JUST ANOTHER COMMON SENSE LECTURE. "Give Ghc 1,000 to a secondary school dropout and watch him buy a stove, a frying pan, cooking oil and other things to start Indomie business. In just five years, the young man will have a wife, a plot of land worth thousands or million, a Tokunbo car, a TV, sofa, bed, etc in his one-bedroom house. Give Ghc 15,000 to most university graduates and watch them buy Samsung Galaxy phones and several pairs of skinny jeans, take their numerous girlfriends out, take selfies and post them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. In less than two years, they will be buying Indomie on credit from the secondary school dropout and paying rent or staying in their parents' house. The question is: DOES EDUCATION BREED WASTE, ARROGANCE, GULLIBILITY AND STUPIDITY? Education does not necessarily breed any of the above, but it makes you look down on possibilities as "not befitting my status". Unemployment is actually higher amongst the educated than amongs...

 Life is a journey from birth to death. Your career is equally a journey from appointment to retirement. Therefore, prepare for life after retirement. Be good to your juniors, seniors, customers and employees because you will not be the boss forever. Regardless of how everyone fears you at your place of work, one day you are going to end up in the journey of life. The sky gets dark slowly is a sensitive exploration of old age and the complex hidden emotional worlds of the elderly in a rapid aging population. Many elderly speaks as though they know everything, but of old age they are in fact as ignorant as children. Many elderly are infact  completely unprepared for what they are to face when it comes to getting old and the road that lays ahead of them. In the time between a person turning 60 years old, as they begin to age, right until all the lights goes out, and the sky gets dark, there are some situations to keep in mind so that you will be prepared for what is to come and ...

 Gratitude is a sacred state of being, a peaceful acceptance, a graceful opening of the heart and joyful connection with the soul. Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments. Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seekers life - in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your life. Be grateful for a life our Creator has given you or made available to you. When you are grateful for such life, you will experience peace, you will automatically be at peace with yourself and everyone around you. Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart find the good in others and in yourself and embrace it. We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles. Acts of kindness come in many forms. A moment of Kindness and gener...

 When truth bearers become public nuisance and enemy, falsehood and half truth become attractive and well patronised commodity. Truth and honesty is mostly bitter, nuasuating but useful antidote. Truth and honesty is costly but necessary, not all can give or accept. Be courageous to be honest and truthful. Be humble to accept the truth. Never worry about who will be offended if you speak the truth. Worry about who will be misled, deceived and destroyed if you don’t. Honesty's one of the most important attributes in life. It gives you peace of mind where you're not troubled by the lies you tell. In life therefore, if you want to be trusted, be honest. If you want to be honest be true and if you want to be true, be yourself. Always bear in mind that the greatest advantage of speaking the truth's that you don't have to remember what you said. Honesty will always get you farther in life than lies ever would. A lie may open many doors, but they'll only be slammed in your...

It all started when I turned 19, on the night before my 19 th birthday, my sister whispered to me “I am going to give you a special treat tomorrow”. I was curious to know what kind of treat it is because my senior sister is full of bombshells all the time and unpredictable. My sister Kira as we all call her is the name given to her by our uncle who visits us more often. My uncle is the only family member my sister and I knew since we were toddlers till now because our parents are always busy which makes it difficult to even take us out not to talk of visiting their families in the village. I am filled with anxiety and uneasy when she whispered the statement to me. All of a sudden, my parent walked in and I looked at their faces, all that I said in mind is “I don’t think they even remember the next day is my birthday”.   Even though I was not surprised to notice that about them, it was usually of them to only remember when my sister asks them to buy me a gift. My sister Kir...

The affection of a mother is the undeniable truth that almost 90% of people can testify. The  tears  of mama is a story of a seven years old girl who lost her dad to the Mediterranean sea, the dad wanted to improve on the living standard of the family so he went out in  search of greener pastures abroad only to be faced by an untimely death.  Life became an unbearable day in day out for the mama and the little girl. The family of the husband abandon them to their faith and called her all sort of name and been bad luck to their son who died mysteriously. The family of the husband prevented her from going to the husbands’ farm again, the same farm she harvests food with her husband when he was alive to feed themselves and sell if it in excess. Always in grieve and pain to see her little daughter getting thinner and malnourished, she had to borrow and beg neighbors for food to feed her daughter and herself. As a single mama, life in the village became unbearab...

I had a beautiful dream with my girl. I met her while I was doing my national service in the school I completed in the same year. It all happens when she came to me for clarification on a topic, I thought them in class and I did explain to her she asks me if she can get my contact and I did give it to her, she said to me if she can come for a Private lesson on the course and I replied affirmatively. I spotted her the first time I entered the class and I felt something in my inner self just by looking at her. The courage to tell her how I feel about her was not there, at the same to me I was thinking it was not right to propose to my student am teaching, found myself in this dilemma of what to do but finally got the courage to tell her how I feel when she came to me for examination guideline on what to study for the course I was a teaching assistant too.  Initially, she smiled  when I told her how I feel about her, in another hand, I felt that moment was not the ...