''Excerpts from Chapter 7 and Chapter 12 of #AToastToLife @atoasttolifebook
The gut feeling you have about someone, even when you cannot place your finger on what it is, is important. Do not ignore your intuition.
Lessons I learnt?
The decision to love someone is a personal choice, but if your family or the people close to you have that gut feeling about your partner and you are too in love to see it? Pause. They are rarely ever wrong.
When I dismantled the walls around me brick by brick and began to breathe more freely, I realised a lot of things. Life is really not so difficult.
You live your life to the best of your ability, doing everything within your power and means to stay happy and fulfilled. People – friends and family – will hurt you, they will betray your trust, but you owe it to your mind to forgive them and let go of any negative feelings.
You will hurt other people along the way. You must apologize and mean it when you realise it. You must not waive or shrug it off. It is the little things that hurt the most.
You owe it to yourself to chase and pursue your dreams. You try, and you try again and again, until you get what you want.
You are your own happily-ever-after. Yes, you are beautiful, awesome and complete the way you are. It took me a really long time to understand this; that I had to love and find contentment in myself, my family, my beautiful baby and the work I do.
There is a lot I look forward to in my life, my career and business. There are bigger hurdles to scale through and I am prepared and looking forward to all of it. But mostly, I am grateful for how far I have come, from the little girl who survived three civil wars, to being the Juliet Ibrahim''
Gut feeling, intuition, its hardly wrong, trust it.
ReplyDeleteJuliet family and friends are not always right. Sometimes they have zero idea of what your heart truly wants. Some reject your choices because they don't want the new person to steal you from them and nothing tangible. Once rejections like this come; bad vibes sets in as well as paranoia.
DeleteIt doesn't also mean that those that got straight up approval from family and friends don't get cheated on by the well accepted prince charming or get hurt by him. Cases like this is even worse because when you complain nobody will understand or believe you.
In all sha; that guy was an asshole. So all along he was wrong and was busy throwing shades so that people will doubt your sanity? The heart of man is desperately wicked sha.
Abeg park well all this epistle on top fornication affair?! If na marriage wetin una go talk ?! That one for be sermon on the mountain of toto flogging . Long hiss!!
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha. But honestly this live and let live do not judge mentality is brewing a lot of Christians/Muslims that hate to be held accountable for their actions it's okay if you decide to not have a religion but the moment you say I am Christian you must and I say Must again, abide by the word of Christ it is non negotiable. You have to be intentional about your love of God and one of such ways is to stop seeing fornication as normal it isn't, and will never be.
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ReplyDeleteWord for the day "you are your own happily-ever after". Who says women only belong in z oza room?
ReplyDeleteOur President..Buhari did.
Delete"The decision to love someone is a personal choice" fact
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmm
ReplyDeleteDeep!
"You are your own happily-ever after"
ReplyDeleteHighly factual👌
I concur!
DeleteYou are beautiful, awesome and complete the way you are. 👌👌👌
ReplyDeleteYou're in every way right Julie. .
ReplyDeleteEnter your comment...truly, life is all about choice, but it remains imperative to choose wisely.
ReplyDeleteok.... o we've heard.
ReplyDeleteOne of the frogs a princess had to kiss. It's just that he looks more like agama.
ReplyDeleteNot so easy on the eye!
DeleteEnter your comment..wow she is just wow💓💓💓💓💓💓
ReplyDeleteEx fiancée please not girlfriend they were engaged
ReplyDeleteLife is full of lessons, we keep learning from our experiences but better to learn from what happens to others. I learnt from urs dear,thanks
ReplyDeleteEnter your comment...must fornication be done under the umbrella of fiancee's or we are engaged, once u neglect God's commandment, u fill it's a normal thing but when humans neglect u, the whole world would have to hear your story. mitcheew leave ur story and talk the story of God as written in his word (bible )
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